Caladan Brood

Caladan Brood was a warlord, often called simply the Warlord,Gardens of the Moon, Glossary, UK MMPB p.704 who opposed the Malazan armies in the North Campaign on Genabackis.Gardens of the Moon, Dramatis Personae, UK MMPB p.xvi He was a giant man, all muscle and bone, and was said to be human with Barghast blood.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.71 Said to be an Ascendant,Memories of Ice, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.100 power rolled from him in musky waves. His eyebrows were hairless and his teeth were filed.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 10, US HC p.240-242 He had a wide, flat face with strangely bestial eyes.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.623Memories of Ice, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.853
Brood was a longtime friend and companion to Anomander Rake. Over thousands of years the pair had clashed but always been drawn back together, an alliance never broken. Korlat suspected the friendship was strengthened by the long periods the two spent apart over the ages.Memories of Ice, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.790 He was spare with words, but had the ability to make virtually anyone feel welcome and appreciated.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.390-391
Many thousands of years ago, Brood, Rake, and the Queen of Dreams had walked the land together until Brood chose a more solitary path.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.201-202 When he returned about 1200 years before the Malazan Book of the Fallen, he carried Burn's Hammer, an enormous weapon of ironGardens of the Moon, Chapter 10, US HC p.240 with a copper-wrapped handle.Memories of Ice, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.719 It was said to be capable of shattering mountains, with the Great Raven, Crone, presenting the broken peaks east of the Laederon Plateau as evidence of Brood's "younger, more precipitous days".Memories of Ice, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.111
His primary Warren was Tennes,Memories of Ice, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.110 but he also had access to D'riss and High Denul.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.629
== In Gardens of the Moon ==
During the Malazan Empire's attempts to conquer Genabackis, Caladan Brood led a unified force of Tiste Andii, Crimson Guard, Rhivi, Mott Irregulars, Ilgres Barghast, and soldiers from the remaining Free Cities against them. Under his command, his forces managed to delay the Malaz 5th Army from completely conquering the north of the continent at Blackdog Forest for a period of at least four years.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.61 His second in command was the once High King Kallor.Gardens of the Moon, Dramatis Personae
After the allied city of Pale fell to the Malazan siege, Brood left the Crimson Guard behind to hold the north while the rest of his troops moved south to respond. High Fist Dujek Onearm was ultimately forced to parley with Brood and Kallor outside Pale in order to extricate his forces.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 24, US HC p.480
In conversation with Baruk, Anomander Rake recalled the last time Icarium had visited him some 800 years before the Siege of Pale. The Jhag had been in the company of Mappo Runt and Osric, and Brood had worked hard to keep the arguing Rake and Osric apart.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 20, US TPB p.405
== In Memories of Ice==
Caladan Brood allied himself and his Host of over thirty thousand soldiersMemories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.455 with his former enemies, Dujek's now renegade Malazan army, in order to combat a more powerful and revolting foe, the Pannion Domin. His second in command during the Pannion War remained the once High King, Kallor.Memories of Ice, Dramatis Personae A number of Anomander Rake's Tiste Andii sorcerers were attached to his forces, but Rake and Moon's Spawn were Brood's Shaved Knuckle in the Hole.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.166 The Crimson Guard withdrew from the Host to attend to internal matters.Memories of Ice, Chapter 3
The Host was also joined by Silverfox and the Mhybe, which caused friction between Brood and Kallor. The High King called Silverfox an abomination, recognising the soul of his enemy the Sister of Cold Nights within her, and demanded she be killed.Memories of Ice, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.104-105 But Brood kept the girl under his protection.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5
Ganoes Paran, now Master of the Deck, observed a vision of Burn within Finnest House. There he discovered that Burn slept in response to the infection of her flesh by the Crippled God. In order to break the chains poisoning her body, she made of herself a weapon, putting all of her spirit and power into the forging of a hammer. She then gave the hammer to Brood. But to use the hammer meant to free the Fallen One from his chains and destroy all life in the world. The knowledge that Brood refused to use the hammer left Paran weeping.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5
Brood's goal for the war was to liberate the Pannions from the rule of the Pannion Seer.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.617 But it soon became clear that a K'Chain Che'Malle Matron and the Crippled God were the hidden powers behind the Pannion leader. Brood became frustated by Kallor's constant insubordination, and by Kruppe's seemingly ludicrous claims to protect them all from the Crippled God. When Kruppe mocked Brood's rising anger, the warlord struck a mighty blow with his hammer at Kruppe's feet. The resulting concussion sent Whiskeyjack and the other witnesses tumbling away while birthing a range of mountains on the Catlin Plain. Kruppe, however, remained untouched and unphased, and calmly brushed the dust off his clothes.Memories of Ice, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.505-507/526-527
At the Siege of Capustan, Humbrall Taur's White Face Barghast drove the Pannion forces out of the city onto the plains to the west. There Brood and Dujek's armies crushed the Seer's military, captured Anaster and the Tenescowri, and killed Septarch Kulpath.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.610-612 Brood organised a parley of the victors and representatives from the city to decide on the alliance's next steps. The Mask Council priestess, Rath'Burn, charged the warlord with neglecting his duty to Burn. She demanded he turn over the hammer with which he should have broken Burn's chains. Brood dropped the hammer in her arms shattering her wrists. Then he took pity on her, healing her wounds with his magic.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.716-720 
Brood admitted feeling burdened by carrying the hammer.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.201-202 He had long considered himself a coward for failing to choose between the options to destroy the world or destroy civilisation. But ultimately he came to feel that Burn had faith that he would find a third option.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.720
The allies marched on the Seer and his forces at Coral. First, they split their forces to liberate Setta and Lest intending to reunite at Maurik. By this time, Brood was aware that Dujek had deceived him when claiming to have gone renegade.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.618 He was also irritated when only Whiskeyjack and a token force of Malazans arrived at Maurik while Dujek and the rest secretly advanced on Coral. The warlord took Kallor's advice and made little effort to rush to Dujek's assistance at the Battle of Black Coral in order to keep his own troops fresh.Memories of Ice, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.841-847 Brood was unaware that Dujek planned to sacrifice himself and his army to buy the warlord more time to find a third option.Memories of Ice, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.770-771
In the end, Kallor betrayed the alliance, killing Whiskeyjack and severely wounding Korlat before joining the Crippled God. Orfantal brought Brood to the battlefield by Warren so that the warlord could heal his sister.Memories of Ice, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.901Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.905 Thinking Rake and Moon's Spawn destroyed and faced with an overwhelming number of the Seer's undead K'ell Hunters, Brood felt no choice but to draw his hammer.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.923-925 But he froze with his hammer held high as the newly freed god, Togg, howled and summoned thousands of T'lan Ay to their defence followed by the arrival of Rake and his Skykeep.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.933-937
After the battle was won, Brood was content to leave negotiations for possession of Coral to Rake and the Malazans. In his eyes, the Empire had earned all they might ask for.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.948
==In House of Chains==
L'oric sought a guardian for Kurald Thyrllan during the absence of his father, Osserc. He considered contacting one of his father's former companions, a list which included Caladan Brood. But L'oric rejected the idea, saying Brood "carries his own burdens, these days."House of Chains, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.488
Brood was revealed to be one of the particpants in the last Chaining of the Crippled God.House of Chains, Chapter 23, Epigraph
==In The Bonehunters==
After the Pannion War, Dujek's forces were recalled to Seven Cities to put down the Whirlwind rebellion and Brood's alliance broke up. The Rhivi and Barghast returned to their lands while the Tiste Andii settled in Black Coral. Meanwhile, the Crimson Guard, who had remained in the north, vanished to parts unknown.The Bonehunters, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.520 Caladan Brood's immediate movements were not revealed.
==In Toll the Hounds==
After the siege of Coral was over, Caladan Brood disbanded his army.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.390 Endest Silann unexpectedly came upon him cooking trout on the shore of the River Eryn near Coral Bay. The two old friends sat together eating fish and talkingToll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.389-391 until Rake sent Crone to summon his castellan back to Black Coral.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.462-464
thumb|200x200px|After the Duel by [https://www.instagram.com/p/B_iHy_wKMyp/ Autumn Tavern]
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, Brood appeared in Darujhistan where Rake was killed by Dassem Ultor. High Alchemist Baruk brought him to the place of Rake's death where a Convergence of powers fought over the sword Dragnipur. Envy and Spite used their magic to drive off the Hounds of Shadow defending the sword, but before they could claim it Brood stepped out of Baruk's carriage. It took only meeting the deadly regard of Brood's strangely bestial eyes for the two sisters to abandon their plans.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.941-942Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.967-968
thumb|200x200px|Caladan at the barrow by [https://www.instagram.com/shadaan_studios/ Shadaan]
The next day, tens of thousands of silent mourners followed Brood west out of the city to a barrow Brood prepared with the warren of Tennes. As Great Ravens wheeled overhead, he carried the body inside and sealed it with an ancient Barghast glyph that meant Grief.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.967-968 He then took Dragnipur to Baruk's Estate where Crone, Derudan, Vorcan Radok, and the High Alchemist witnessed him shatter it with his hammer.Toll the Hounds, Epilogue, US SFBC p.1005-1007 Draconus had once used the same hammer to forge the sword to Burn's displeasure.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.959-960 Now Brood argued she was likely smiling in her sleep.Toll the Hounds, Epilogue, US SFBC p.1007
== In Orb Sceptre Throne==
Caladan Brood settled just outside the city of Darujhistan adjudicating matters brought to him by emissaries from the north, the Free Cities and the Rhivi Plains. As time went by, he felt a certain tension and feared that there had been a shift in the balance of power with his friend's death.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 1 His fears proved true with the rise of the Legate. Brood was directly confronted by the Legate (actually the latest interation of the Tyrant Kings) when his erstwhile friend, now a puppet of the Tyrant, Barukanal, came to visit him. The two reached an impasse however, when Caladan threatened to pull down the city to stop the Tyrant if he had to.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 6
Being a respected figure for the Rhivi, he did his best to try and dissuade the Rhivi tribes and their leader Jiwan, from going to war with the Malazan armies on Genabackis.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 12 He did not succeed as the Rhivi did engage a Malazan force, confident that they could finally rid themselves of the Malazan menace that had been troubling them.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 15 
Later, Brood was instrumental in destroying the magical Circle of white stones that the Tyrant had had buried in a refilled trench surrounding Darujhistan's Majesty Hill. This Circle (of stones) was the anchor of the Tyrant's protective shield - which was a huge dome covering Majesty Hill - known as the Orb of the Tyrants. Brood accomplished this with two double-fisted blows of his mighty hands to one of the white stones - which cracked - thereby removing not only the Orb of the Tyrants, but also the power of the Tyrant.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 20, US TPB p.563-564
== In Forge of Darkness ==
Brood was a renowned Azathanai High Mason. He was hired by Anomander Purake to build and dedicate a hearthstone in the new home of the betrothed Andarist and Enesdia to celebrate their marriage. The stone was inscribed with an Azathanai blessing that would only be known by the new husband and wife. At the time of the stone's placing, Brood demanded an oath from Anomander which prompted Rake to demand one in return.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 2, UK HC p.50 This created a bond between them and ultimately led to their longstanding companionship. 
Returning to his home in the west, he met fellow Azathanai, Grizzin Farl, and they shared several jugs of Tiste wine that Brood said he had been saving for Kilmandaros, Farl's wife.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 8, UK HC p.223
After the Purake wedding day tragedy, Brood returned to Andarist's home where he told Anomander he could show him how to end the brewing civil war among the Tiste.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 20, UK HC p.660
==In Fall of Light==
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==Trivia==
Caladan Brood's first name may be a reference to the novel Dune by Frank Herbert. Caladan is the homeworld of Paul Atreides, the novel's main character. Malazan author, Steven Erikson, has stated that Dune was a major influence on the Malazan series. Erikson has said the homage was not consciously intentional.Facebook Fantasy/Sci-Fi Focus AMA
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