Mallet

Mallet was a healer in the Bridgeburners 9th Squad.Gardens of the Moon, Dramatis Personae, UK MMPB p.xii He used to lead a healer's cadre in the days of the Emperor but was busted down like many of the Bridgeburners.Memories of Ice, Chapter 21, UK MMPB p.906 Mallet had the ability to access High Denul. 
He was described as a wide and burly manMemories of Ice, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.876 with heavy brows,Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.121 small eyes,Memories of Ice, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.382 and a round face.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.153 His hands were pudgy.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.344 He spoke with a soft, oddly high voice.Memories of Ice, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.380Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.545
He fought with a shortsword and crossbow, whose initial bolt was kept readied in place by a loop of leather.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.928 
Like many Malazan soldiers, his name was bestowed by the legendary Master Sergeant, Braven Tooth.House of Chains, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.252
== In Gardens of the Moon==
Mallet was one of the card players in Knobb's Inn when Ganoes Paran first encountered the 9th squad.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.121 After Sorry attempted to assassinate Paran, Mallet said that a forced healing should have been an impossible, but his Denul skills sufficed because healing from outside forces had already been in progress.
==In Memories of Ice==
When Dujek's army went renegade, the decimated Bridgeburners were reorganised and Mallet was moved to Antsy's 7th Squad. He stayed close to Whiskeyjack, acting as his confidante on matters relating to the Bridgeburners. The pair discussed Ganoes Paran's unusual behavior after the mission in Darujhistan and Whiskeyjack ordered the healer to watch the new captain's back. Mallet tried several times to tend to Whiskeyjack's poorly healing leg, itself a result of the events in Darujhistan, but Whiskeyjack was always too busy to accommodate him.Memories of Ice, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.82/85 
Dujek allied the Malazans with their old enemies, Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake, against the Pannion Domin. The Bridgeburners were sent by Quorl to the Barghast Range to forge an alliance with Humbrall Taur and the White Face Barghast. Mallet was part of a detachment led by Antsy that was to meet and escort Quick Ben to the Barghast camp. While waiting, the healer found his access to Denul hindered by the Crippled God's growing infection of the Warrens.Memories of Ice, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.379-382 
Trotts successfully defeated Taur's youngest son in single combat, but his trachea was crushed in the process and he hovered at the brink of death. The alliance and the lives of the Bridgeburners, surrounded by thousands of angry Barghast, depended on Mallet's healing skills. Quick Ben made a deal with Talamandas and the Barghast Elder Spirits to channel their untarnished power through Mallet. Many of the spirits gave their lives and Mallet himself was nearly overcome, but Trotts was saved. Mallet, still inhabited by the spirits, was brought before Taur and the alliance was secured.Memories of Ice, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.386-394/398-403/408/411
The Bridgeburners and the Barghast were the first of the allied forces to make contact with the enemy at the Siege of Capustan. Using Moranth munitions, the Bridgeburners punched their way through 200 Betaklites and over a thousand Tenescowri at Capustan's North Gate.Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.560-566 Passing through the empty streets followed by peasant cannibals, they quickly encountered Gruntle and joined his troop atop a defendable tenement rooftop. Mallet used the spirit powers to save the life of the mortally wounded Stonny Menackis.Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.568-572 Frightened and angered by their precarious situation and by the sickly Paran's lack of communication, Antsy nearly drew his sword on the captain. Paran offered his unprotected back to the sergeant before Mallet was able to defuse the situation.Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.576-577
Once the siege was lifted, Mallet helped Itkovian recover from his ordeal with Rath'Fener and assisted to the needs of the wounded.Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.602Memories of Ice, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.706 
The Bridgeburners traveled secretly to Coral to reconnoiter the next battlefield. During the Siege of Coral, Mallet and the other Bridgeburners were inserted into the city by quorl under the cover of darkness. Their mission was to attack the keep of the Pannion Seer while Dujek led the rest of the army into the city itself.Memories of Ice, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.877-878 Mallet assisted with driving away the Seer's demonic Condors while the squad sappers blasted a breach in the keep's wall.Memories of Ice, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.883 Then he joined the others inside the keep to fight the enemy Seerdomin.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.918 He fought alongside Detoran as she was cut down and was accidentally stabbed by Trotts in the chaos. His own magic used up, the healer's life was saved by Lady Envy.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.928-930/938 
Mallet was one of only a handful of Bridgeburners to survive the battle. Returning to the Malazan command tent, Mallet collapsed upon seeing the body of Whiskeyjack. The Bridgeburner commander had fallen when the leg he had never made time for Mallet to fully heal had given out during a duel with the traitorous Kallor. Picker and the other survivors stayed close to the healer for fear he would fall on his own knife.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.978/987 
Dujek allowed Mallet and the remaining Bridgeburners to secretly retire as had been Whiskeyjack's wish.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.991-992 The healer went to Darujhistan where several of his comrades used their accumulated back pay to establish K'rul's Bar.Memories of Ice, Epilogue, US SFBC p.997-1000
==In The Bonehunters==
Quick Ben told Fiddler and Kalam Mekhar that contrary to reports there had been some survivors in Coral and he named Mallet as one of those now living in Darujhistan.The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.98 He said the healer could not forgive himself for what happened to Whiskeyjack.The Bonehunters, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.191 Ganoes Paran told Apsalar that Mallet was one of several retired Bridgeburners who had become proprietors of K'rul's Bar in Darujhistan.The Bonehunters, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.254-255
The Queen of Dreams revealed that Whiskeyjack's death had been an act of vengeance by Hood. Many years before, Whiskeyjack had stolen his infant half-sister, Dunsparrow, from Hood's temple and the god never forgave him. After Whiskeyjack injured his leg, Hood made sure to turn away any healer attempting to repair the injury. The Queen of Dreams believed Hood later regretted his actions.The Bonehunters, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.563
== In Toll the Hounds ==
Mallet was a regular at the Darujhistan bar founded in the former K'rul's Belfry by remnants of the 9th and 7th Bridgeburner Squads where Picker thought he seemed miserable in retirement.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.34 On a night of the Gedderone Fête, multiple killers from the city's Assassins' Guild under contract from Humble Measure attempted to slay the Bridgeburners in the streets.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.37-39Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.99 When the former soldiers gathered at K'rul's Bar to plan a response, they were interrupted by Coll begging for Mallet to come to the Phoenix Inn to save the dying Murillio's life. Mallet agreed to follow Coll, bringing Bluepearl to assuage Picker's qualms over the danger.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.50-51 It took the healer all night, but Murillio lived.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.86
When Barathol Mekhar arrived in the city and became friends with the Bridgeburners, Mallet accompanied him in his attempt to start a business as a blacksmith. Together they went to the Guild of Blacksmiths where Barathol's application was rejected by an officious clerk. When blacksmith told the healer he planned to open a smithy anyway, Mallet told him he was crazy. The Guild would destroy his shop and send a mob to beat him to death. Mallet also doubted Bridgeburner support would be enough to outweigh the Guild's blacklist. But when Barathol persisted, Mallet gladly offered to help find him a suitable location for his business.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.276Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.342-346
After failing to take individual Bridgeburners in the streets unaware, the Assassins' Guild launched a major attack on the bar itself. Nine assassins entered the bar's front entrance, a dozen tried to enter the back kitchen, and eleven more infiltrated the bar's upper level through a window. The assassins in the bar's main room fired crossbows up into the office window where Mallet stood with Picker. The healer ducked into hallway where he stumbled into the upstairs team. One crossbow bolt punched into his stomach while another ripped through his throat. He attempted to call on High Denul as he lay bleeding, but a dagger in the eye finished him. His final thoughts as he died with a smile on his face were, "Kick open the gate, Whiskeyjack."Toll the Hounds, Chapter 11, US SFBC p.447-453
Mallet and Bluepearl were buried in the cellar of K'rul's Bar.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.544
== In Dust of Dreams ==
Mallet's ghost appeared along with his fellow Bridgeburners guarding the gates to Hood's realm.
== In Orb Sceptre Throne ==
Mallet appeared in front of Antsy as Antsy and his group sought to escape the ruined Moon's Spawn. He asked Antsy to live his life and not look for trouble anymore. He also tried to push away Antsy from trying to join them as guardians of Hood's Gates, saying no one ever liked his constant moaning and philosophies on life. In reality, he just wanted Antsy to live and not be eager to join them.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 16
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