Eleint

The Eleint [ee-LAINT]Gardens of the Moon - Chatting with Steven Erikson, part 2 - As pronounced by Steven Erikson at 1:20:48 were an ancient and powerful race of pure dragons,Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.588 not to be confused with Soletaken Eleint, whose home was the Elder Warren of Starvald Demelain.The Bonehunters, Glossary 
They were the spawn of T'iam, but more like fragments of the goddess than children. Their histories and bloodlines bound them together, but their rage against their splintered natures drove them to mindless clashes with each other.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.125
==Physiology==
Eleint were enormous, scaled, reptilian monstrosities with long, sinewy necks, webbed wings, terrible fanged jaws, and deadly taloned hands.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.127/129/132 They possessed more than one heart.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, UK HB p.600Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.133 
Draconean blood was such a potent force of Chaos that it altered anything it came in contact with. Anyone who absorbed dragon blood took on draconean traitsGardens of the Moon - Chatting with Steven Erikson, part 2 - See 35:00 and at least temporarily acquired the dragon's memories.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.133-134
==Reproduction==
Dragons took husbands and wives for centuries, mating in violent couplings in the sky. Once sated, the dragons separated and the female sought a solitary place to heal and lay her eggs.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.125/133-134 Males crushed the eggs of their rivals before attempting to mate with the same female.Fall of Light, Chapter 5, US HC p.133-134
==In Gardens of the Moon==
The Eleint, Silanah, resided in Moon's Spawn and was a companion to Anomander Rake.Gardens of the Moon, Dramatis Personae, UK MMPB p.xv When the Malazan Empire freed the Jaghut Tyrant Raest from his barrow to challenge Rake, the Son of Darkness asked Silanah to help delay the Tyrant's march on Darujhistan. She was supported by four Tiste Andii Soletaken in the form of black dragons.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 22 Silanah was badly injured by Raest in the process, but he spared her life.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 22, US MMPB p.592
==In House of Chains==
Pearl and Lostara Yil came across an enormous Eleint spiked and chained onto a wooden X-shaped cross as large as a four-storey building. Pearl noted that the still living dragon was aspected to Otataral, although its aura was safely contained within its prison, and was part of nature's strive for symmetry and balance. By devouring magic and consuming warrens, the otataral dragon was an answer "for every other dragon that ever existed, or ever will."House of Chains, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.472-473
Lostara stated that all the oldest legends of dragons in Seven Cities started by saying that they were the essence of sorcery.House of Chains, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.566
==In The Bonehunters==
Three Eleint, Ampelas, Eloth, and Kalse, imprisoned in Kurald Emurlahn revealed much to Cotillion about their race's connection to the Warrens. The Elder God K'rul asked them to shape his blood to create Warrens, Elder and new, and for each Warren an Eleint was aspected to it. Once the work was complete, the Eleint "were compelled to return to Starvald Demelain. As the sources of sorcery, they could not be permitted to interfere or remain active across the realms, lest sorcery cease to be predictable, which in turn would feed Chaos—the eternal enemy in this grand scheme."The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.77-78 
Further complicating matters were the Soletaken Eleint. They possessed the blood of T'iam and thus her powers, but were free to travel as they pleased and interfere as they wished. Additionally, K'rul assigned the same aspects to the Soletaken Eleint forcing the Eleint to share power.The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.79 The Eleint despised Scabandari Bloodeye, Draconus, and Olar Ethil, and dismissed their own Silanah for falling for Anomandaris' charms.The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.78-79 
The three chained Eleint attempted to heal the fractured Kurald Emurlahn by seizing the Throne of Shadow, but were stopped by a vengeful Anomandaris and his Tiste Andii. Rake was determined to see the Throne remain unclaimed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.76
==In Reaper's Gale==
Feral dragons were among the creatures warring in Kurald Emurlahn as the Elder Warren began to die and fragment. The Elder Goddess Kilmandaros defended the warren, battling those who sought its Throne or scavenged its fragments to claim as their own. While travelling through the Warren she encountered the carcasses of six dragons strewn in a row on a plain. Where their blood spilled out onto the dirt, wraiths gathered like flies, tasting the blood and becoming entrapped by it: "The ghosts writhing and voicing hollow cries of despair, as the blood darkened, fusing with the lifeless soil; and, when at last the substance grew indurate, hardening into glassy stone, those ghosts were doomed to an eternity trapped within that murky prison".Reaper's Gale, Prologue, US HC p.19-20/23 The blood sank into the ground and fell through world after world, solidifying in other realms depending on the blood's aspect.Reaper's Gale, Prologue, US HC p.20 
While travelling through the Bluerose Mountains, Silchas Ruin, Seren Pedac, Fear Sengar, Udinaas, Kettle, and the Shadow wraith Wither discovered the shattered remains of an ancient K'Chain Che'Malle city. Ruin observed that it had been destroyed by the powerful Starvald Demelain sorcery of at least a dozen dragons. Wither revealed that the dragons had acted against the K'Chain Che'Malle to stop them from vengefully annihilating all existence as their race slid into extinction.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.52-53 
Beak observed that Stormy and Gesler were "re-forged in the fires of Tellann". He then went on to say: "Telas, Kurald Liosan, the fires, the ones dragons fly through to gain immunities and other proofs against magic and worse".Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, BCA edition p.734
==In Toll the Hounds==
Baruk read from a book by Dillat given to him by Anomander Rake. Among other subjects, it recorded a war among the dragons when all the First Born (but one) had bowed their necks to K'rul. The children of the dragons, bereft of their inheritance, rose in battle to reject the First Born. Rake and Osseric had already tasted the blood of T'iam and others came to do the same. War raged upon all the Realms as long as the Gates of Starvald Demelain remained open. Crone told Baruk that Rake was amused by the book's inaccuracies.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.52-54 
Spinnock Durav recalled that some time before the arrival of Silanah, Anomander Rake had warred with the pure-blood dragons when they had broken from their long-standing servitude to K'rul to grasp power for themselves. Spinnock was unclear as to Rake's motivation for opposing the dragons.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.75
Nimander Golit fell through a gate of Omtose Phellack in a former Azath House occupied by Gothos. The Tiste Andii found himself in a world of ash surrounded by the hostile spirits of Tiste Andii, Tiste Edur, and Tiste Liosan who fell in the first wars, when dragons burst through every gate to slay and die. The pumice and ash that had been the breath and blood of the dying dragons had trapped the spirits as if in amber. Nimander convinced Elder, the mason also trapped there, to build an Azath House from the dragons' stony remains. Elder found it a fitting grave marker and Gothos later commented that there was now an Azath in the blood of dragons.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.330/332/334
==In The Crippled God==
Sandalath Drukorlat remembered how long before the rise of human empires, the Hold of Starvald Demelain, home realm of the dragons, was cut off from them by the Hust Legion, on Anomander Rake's orders. Whilst Rake was going to fight them beyond the Rent, denying them the Throne of Shadow, the legion was ordered to march through the gate and fight the Eleint until only five of the legion remained. Those five were ordered to then seal that wound (the rent presumably). The Eleint stopped coming for a long time thus buying Rake and the other Andii time.The Crippled God, Chapter 15, UK HB p.431/432
A few dragons were left to wander the Holds and human realm when the Elder God K'rul struck a deal with them. He proposed that each should take upon themselves a certain aspect of a new type of magic. These aspects would manifest as Warrens, a new, more ordered kind of magic. It should be noted that it was not clear what K'rul offered the dragons in return.
After this aspecting, many of the dragons were hunted down and chained, as killing them would cause the magic in the Warrens aspected to them to disappear. In addition, one dragon, Korabas, was Otataral aspected, a necessary ingredient in order to counterbalance the appearance of this new magic.
==In Forge of Darkness==
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==In Fall of Light==
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==Language==
For a list of known Eleint words and phrases as well as translations please visit the Eleint Language page.
==Eleint==
* Alkend
* Ampelas
* Anthras (or Telorast Anthras)
* Arak Rashanas
* Atrahal
* Dalk Tennes
* Dralk
* Eloth
* Habalt Galanas
* Iskari Mockras
* Kalse
* Karatallid
* Karosis (or Kerudas Karosias, or Curdle)
* Kessobahn
* Korbas
* Korabas
* Latal Menas
* Okaros
* Olar
* Silanah
* Sorrit
* T'iam
==Notes and references==
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