Jahl 'Parth

Jahl 'Parth was the Bonereader of a tribe of Imass living within the Warren of Tellann in a village known as the Place of the Blooming Ice. The village existed in the past--or in a moment held from the past.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.201-203 
She was a tiny, young girl who the Imass elders referred to as "Grandmother", since at birth she had been identified by the elders as the spirit of their ancestor Jahl 'Parth returned.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.202-203 She had a thick brow, wide cheeks, thick lips, a large nose, and sharp brown and piercing eyes. She wore tattered hide skirts secured by a belt of woven cord around her emaciated waist, as well as a leather vest that left her thin arms bare beneath a crude hide wrap.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.202-205
Jahl 'Parth made her home within an enormous structure made of stone with a broad and low opening resembling a cave mouth. A tunnel of smoothly worked and dressed stone led to a large chamber lit by a meagre fire that left the walls and ceiling in shadow. The chamber did not seem to be built to a human scale.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.202 
==In Kellanved's Reach==
In the time before the founding of the Malazan Empire, Kellanved and Dancer passed through a gate in Shadow in search of the First Throne of the T'lan Imass. They found themselves in the Place of the Blooming Ice in the dead of winter and were quickly brought before Jahl 'Parth by the Imass elders. The Bonereader questioned the pair, although she already claimed to know who they were and what they sought. She tried to warn them away from meddling with powers they did not understand by revealing how limited their knowledge was. She disclosed that her home was a former city of the K'Chain Che'Malle that her people had succeeded in destroying after twenty generations of warfare--it had been her bloodline's only purpose. The mage countered that they sought knowledge, not power.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.198-204
Jahl 'Parth informed Kellanved that she knew the Throne's location, but chose not to tell him where it lay. When the mage said he would have to blunder about looking for it without her help, causing trouble and blaming it all on her, she laughed and brought them outside to a blustery stretch of coast. She pointed to a hill on an island, identifying it as the site of the Throne. Once more she warned them not to seek the Throne, saying none had ever returned from the island, before disappearing back into the thick falling snow.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 13, US HC p.204-206
==Notes and references==
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