Rents

Rents were magical wounds "in the fabric of the barriers between Realms."Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 3 Chapter 3, UK PB p.643 The best documented one in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series was simply referred to as The Rent and was located at Morn. It was said only the Great K'Chain Che'Malle Matrons could master them reliably enough to create one on purpose.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 3 Chapter 3, UK PB p.644-645
==In Gardens of the Moon==
A small rent opened through which Oponn's coin dropped at the feet of Crokus.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 5, UK MMPB p.187
==In Deadhouse Gates==
A mage driven mad by exposure to Otataral in the Skullcup slave mining camp ripped open a rent whilst his Warren mindlessly attacked the Ripath. The ship was pulled through the vortex and was transported to the Nascent, a flooded section of the Kurald Emurlahn Warren.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 8, US MMPB p.326-327 The insane mage followed the ship through their own rent and continued the assault.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 8, US MMPB p.338
The mage was quickly killed by a Logros T'lan Imass hunting party in order to prevent any more damage to the Warren. The ending of the mad sorcerer's storm revealed the wound in the sky, which resembled a leaking black lesion that was as large as a full moon. Upon looking straight at it, Felisin and Kulp were pulled into a trance-like state (described as feeling like the rent was leaking into their eyes), and had to force themselves to look away.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 9, US MMPB p.379
Gesler offered to seal the rent, but Hentos Ilm, the T'lan Imass party leader, denied him as his human soul was insufficient. Legana Breed, a clanless T'lan Imass, volunteered to sacrifice his soul to seal the rent, though it was revealed that Legana escaped by secretly using the soul of a severed Tiste Andii head instead of his own.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 9, US MMPB p.382
One of the T'lan Imass revealed to Stormy that to use one's soul to seal a rent meant an eternity of great pain, as the wound healed around you.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 9, US MMPB p.381-382
==In Memories of Ice==
==In Midnight Tides==
The armies of Silchas Ruin's Tiste Andii and Scabandari Bloodeye's Tiste Edur passed through a violent rent in northern Lether to enter and invade the Malazan world.Midnight Tides, Prologue, US SFBC p.24
== In Return of the Crimson Guard==
A similar rent opened between the mortal world and Chaos during the Battle of the Plains near Li Heng on the continent of Quon Tali.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 3 Chapter 3 The hole was torn between the realms during a fierce struggle between mages travelling through a warren on a sailing ship that skirted "the edge of Chaos" and then careened into the center of the continent.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 3 Chapter 3
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