Mape

Mape was a female Nacht,Midnight Tides, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.270-271 a Jaghut-bred version of the bhoka'rala.Midnight Tides, Glossary Like all Nachts, she was roughly a meter in height, muscle-bound, heavy for her size, black-skinned, black-tailed, and hairless. She had a perfectly round head, an apish face with small black eyes, pointed ears, and fangs.Midnight Tides, Prologue, US TPB p.25-26Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.506
== In Midnight Tides==
There were three Nachts who served the Crippled God on his island, and who he had named Mape, Pule, and Rind. These three creatures became servants and companions of Withal, a Meckros weaponsmith, after the god destroyed his city and brought him to the island as his slave. The Nachts were to serve Withal while he created a sword to the god's specifications.Midnight Tides, Prologue, US TPB p.24-26 Of the three, Mape made Withal the most nervous because of her constant smile and the sign of too much intelligence in her eyes.Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.513
Withal observed the three Nachts endlessly repeat the same cycle of actions. Pule, a young male, would meticulously build an elaborate nest of twigs, grass, driftwood, and seaweed while Mape would preen nearby. When Pule's creation was done, Mape would furiously tear it to pieces and urinate on the remains. All the while, Rind, an older male, would watch and laugh hysterically. Withal was sure the beasts were trying to communicate some lesson to him through this regular display.
Eventually, Withal realised that deliverers of suffering deserved what was coming to them. He knocked the Crippled God's tent down atop him and dragged it away, allowing Mael to enter the god's domain. Then Withal, Sandalath Drukorlat, and the Nachts escaped on a boat provided by Mael while the Elder sea god prepared "to beat a god senseless".Midnight Tides, Epilogue, US SFBC p.769-771
==In The Bonehunters==
Adjunct Tavore Paran was crestfallen as her Malaz 14th Army left Malaz City by ship. Bottle had been sent into the city to retrieve the man called Foreigner and not returned. Without Foreigner, all her plans would fail. But before the Froth Wolf exited the harbour, they were approached by Cartharon Crust's vessel, the Drowned Rat. Aboard were Bottle, Foreigner (now revealed to be Withal), Sandalath, the three Nachts, and others. As they all crossed over to the Adjunct's flagship, Fiddler caught sight of Mape, Pule, and Rind and said, "Gods below. Nachts. I hate those things."The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.951-953
==In Reaper's Gale==
The Adjunct's fleet spent over a year crossing the ocean to invade the Letherii Empire.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.355/359 Mape, Pule, and Rind spent that time clambering through the rigging of the Froth Wolf with Grub, who seemed to have learned to communicate with them.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.355/359 When the Bonehunters made landfall on the Lether River to invade Letheras, the three Nachts clashed over a shortsword, tumbling furiously all over the deck biting and scratching while the sailors placed wagers on the outcome. The bloody brawl came to an end when all three lay skewered to the deck by the weapon. While the sailors argued over who won, the Nachts stirred to life, kicked the sword into the water, and exchanged hugs before diving overboard themselves. Withal claimed none of it had been real.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.756-757
The Nachts later joined Withal at the island of the Crippled God where Karsa Orlong had killed Rhulad Sengar and discarded the cursed sword. Withal brought the sword back to his forge to destroy it, ordering the Nachts to bail our their boat  in preparation for their eventual departure.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.821-822
==In Dust of Dreams==
The three Nachts, after being instrumental in helping Withal to escape from the Crippled God's island, thereafter continued to accompany Withal wherever he went.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 1, US HC p.44Dust of Dreams, Chapter 7, US HC p.237-238
Sandalath Drukorlat decided that she and Withal - plus, inevitably, the three Nachts - would follow after the Shake, under the leadership of Yan Tovis. Yan Tovis and the Shake - entering a gate that led onto the Road of Gallan - were already far ahead of Sandalath, Withal and the Nachts when they, themselves, entered the same gate. No sooner had they done so, however, when they were immediately attacked by a Forkrul Assail. Unexpectedly, the three Nachts, as soon as they had entered this realm, had veered into the shape of Venath demons - becoming huge, hulking, and unbelievably strong. These three Venath demons/Nachts were able to easily beat the Forkrul to a bloody pulp, thereby saving Sandalath and Withal. Sandalath told Withal that she had been told by the mage Obo, that the Jaghut had created the Nacht. Withal noted that these Vanath demons were just as stupid as when Rind, Mape, and Pule were in the form of Nachts.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 13, US HC p.399-403Dust of Dreams, Chapter 18, US HC p.562-563
==Speculations==
Fiddler conducted a reading of the Deck of Dragons in The Bonehunters as Adjunct Tavore's fleet neared the northeast headlands of Malaz Island. The reading revealed that Grub had dived off Admiral Nok's ship to swim to the coast and visit "three friends living in the caves in the cliff." The three cards drawn relating to his friends were Crown, Sceptre, and Orb.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.840 Grub later made his way to the streets of Malaz City where he found Lostara Yil. The Red Blade was startled to hear skittering sounds in the shadows, but Grub dismissed them as the sound of his friends.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.930-931 When Grub finally returned to the Froth Wolf he was accompanied by Lostara Yil and the three Nachts (among others).The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.952-953 This suggested that his three friends might have been Mape, Pule, and Rind.
==Notes and references==
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