Yeull 'ul Taith

Yeull 'ul Taith was the commander of what remained of the Malazan Sixth Army in Rool, and self-proclaimed Overlord of Fist. He had come to Korel as part of a Malazan invasion, but was among the renegades who cut ties with Empire and decided to keep the taxes being collected for themselves. Headquartered in Paliss, he was the nation's third leader since Greymane was ousted from command.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, UK TPB p.131-132
His tenure as Overlord seemed not to have had a particularly beneficial impact on him. Rather, he seemed to have gone quite mad. While still with the army, he had never been popular with the men, given as he was to brooding. But as Overlord, Yeull's advisor High Mage Ussü described him as "clinging on like a man gripping a plank in a storm. Terrified of betrayal. Yet hanging on just the same, even more terrified of letting go." He often muttered under his breath as if in conversation with himself.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, UK TPB p.132/135
Yeull was described as having long black hair, dark eyes, and a pale scarred face. He usually wore a bearhide wrap over his shoulders and kept his chambers broiling with heat to fend off a cold only he felt.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, UK TPB p.132 
==In Stonewielder==
The Overlord's natural paranoia was stoked by the prisoner Cherghem's report that Yeull's old friend and commander Greymane was returning to Fist at the head of a punitive expedition.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, UK TPB p.137 Yeull sent an army under Envoy Enesh-jer to defend the Roolian border at Three Sisters. Then he sent Ussü and Borun, the Black Moranth who served as the Overlord's second in command, to advise the defense.
After Greymane's advance ground to a halt in the face of the Three Sisters defense, Yeull lost his nerve and recalled Ussü and Borun back to Paliss.Stonewielder, Chapter 8, US HC p.395 Without the assistance of the Black Moranth Heavy infantry, Three Sisters soon fell and was quickly followed by Banith. Yeull made no effort to counterattack, instead choosing to gather his army in the far west at Lallit. There he secured an alliance with the Stormguard of Korelri, sending his army to the Stormwall by ship for the winter in return for the Stormguard's assistance against Greymane in the summer. The paranoid Yeull also abandoned the Black Moranth, the iron core of his army, at Lallit because his unhinged mind had been turned against them by the sight of Blue Moranth amongst the enemy.Stonewielder, Chapter 9, US HC p.452/482Stonewielder, Chapter 10, US HC p.493/531-532
Greymane and his army followed Yeull to Korelri where Greymane destroyed the Stormwall. Yeull and his army drowned in the massive tidal wave that followed.Stonewielder, Chapter 12, US HC p.599
==Notes and references==
Category:Males
Category:Malazans