Mockra

Mockra was a Warren also known as the Path of the Mind, and among the rarest warrens accessed by mortals.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 19, US HC p.494 Mockra-based magic was used to subtly manipulate and influence the minds of others, often through illusion. By making use of proclivities to cloud the mind or fill it with frightening shadows, the target's body could be made to react as if what it sensed was real.Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.622 
It was the most common natural talent, needing no formal training for some to sense ill thoughts directed at them as a whispering unease or as hair raising on the back of the neck.The Bonehunters, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.864
Mockra could create a mental block that its victim was aware of and still be unable to penetrate.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 17, US HC p.454 Targets of Mockra could be made to misread the passage of time or lose control of their bodies and become paralyzed.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 19, US HC p.492-494Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 20, US HC p.537 Mockra could force someone to fall immediately asleepMidnight Tides, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.516 or make their brain boil in their skull.Midnight Tides, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.590
Mockra could be used to block specific memories, but the practice was not without drawbacks. The target would sense an emptiness and always feel on the verge of realization of what was missing. At the same time, the body would still remember and react to sight, smell, and taste without the mind understanding why. The target's whole personality would change as the missing memories gnawed at it.Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.624 Traumatic memories could be eased by changing how the mind felt about them rather than blocking them. Such a ritual released all of the emotions at once in an intense period of weeping leaving behind a feeling of nothing or perhaps a small sense of remorse.Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.624-626
Mockra also allowed practitioners to see into the minds of their targets. Some practitioners used Mockra to divine visions of the future.Stonewielder, Chapter 4, US HC p.197
High Mage Ussü speculated that Mockra was the child of High Thyr and possibly associated with the Queen of Dreams.Stonewielder, Chapter 6, US HC p.321 Meanas was Mockra's sister warren as it manipulated the mind through the cunning reshaping of light, shadow, and dark.Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.622
Some scholars of the magical arts believed Mockra was born in the jungles of Dal Hon.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 5, US HC p.88
"Mockra's Curse" was a condition where practitioners of illusory magic could cause themselves an existential crisis. They created so many lies through their magic that they began to suspect reality itself was a grand lie.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.267
== Notable users ==
*Benger
* BanascharThe Bonehunters, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.864
* Calot
* Corlo
* Havva Gulen
* Pearl
* Quick Ben
* Senior Assessor
* Seren Pedac
* ShadowthroneThe Bonehunters, Chapter 21, UK MMPB p.997 
* Ussü
==In The Bonehunters==
Banaschar used Mockra to slip away from Hellian and the Kartool city guard. Afterwards, they could not even clearly remember what he looked like.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US SFBC p.26-27
On the night Adjunct Tavore Paran brought the 14th Army to Malaz City, Bottle sensed that the city was roiling with Mockra sorcery. It was being used by Mallick Rel or his Black Glove to twist "the thoughts of the unsuspecting and gullible, filling skulls with the hunger for violence" against the 14th Army.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.887
Shadowthrone used Meanas bound with Mockra to craft an illusion making the Throne of Shadow appear to be destroyed. Mockra added "filaments of suggestion, invitation, the surrendering of natural scepticism, easing the way to witness the broken throne."The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.818
== In Reaper's Gale ==
Senior Assessor, at Yan Tovis' request, healed Varat Taun, of his madness using the warrens of High Mockra and High Denul, while talking with her about his religion. Mockra and Denul working together made a "physiological amendment achieved by the latter [Denul]. Expurgation of the taint and elimination of the blockages, via the former [Mockra]".Reaper's Gale, Chapter 9, US HC p.220-225
Preparing for the Bonehunters' invasion of the Letherii Empire, all the "wizards, shamans, conjurers and casters in the legions" of the army were ordered to learn how to use Mockra, learning rituals and illusions "to affect camouflage, to swallow sound, confuse scent".Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13 Mockra was widely used by the Malazan Marines during the invasion.
Clip, Fear Sengar, Udinaas, Silchas Ruin, Kettle, and Seren Pedac travelled in search of Scabandari Bloodeye's Finnest. During their journey through a series of ruins in the Bluerose Mountains, Seren Pedac started a conversation with a "voice" that called itself Mockra, the voice told her that using the Warren of Mockra was like a game of grammar: "[…] Twisting semantics, turning inference, inviting suggestion, reshaping a mind's internal language to deceive its own senses". Suggesting that anyone using Mockra on himself, "deceiving oneself", will eventually lead to his own death.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 14
== In The Crippled God ==
During his conversation with the three Eleint chained in Shadow, in search of a deal, Cotillion pointed out that the voice of Eloth (i.e. Mockra), had been heard in the mortal realms. The dragon said that dreams escaped all kinds of chains, even the most cruellest.The Crippled God, Chapter 1 (Suggesting that Seren Pedac may have spoken with a dream of the chained dragon.)
==In The God is Not Willing==
Benger suspected Mockra to be closely related to High Denul as both spun tightly around elemental chaos and created something out of nothing. He believed the mind had a role in healing and so slipped back and forth between the two warrens when practicing the healing arts.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.262 Benger used Mockra in combination with High Denul to cure Sarlis of her Blood-oil addiction.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 11, US HC p.185-186The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.262-277
==Notes and references==
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