Rant

Rant was the half-Teblor bastard son of Karsa Orlong and Sarlis, a Human woman.The God is Not Willing, Dramatis PersonaeThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.51 Karsa had raped his mother while under the influence of Blood-oil during his raid of Silver Lake with Bairoth Gild and Delum Thord. Rant's mother had been driven half-mad by the taint of the oil and was eventually forced to become a prostitute to support herself and her son.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 4, US HC p.63-64/70-71The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.51-53 The Teblor half-blood grew up unaware of the identity of his father.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.51-52
Once he began to outgrow the settlement's adults before the age of nine, he became an outcast who was pelted by stones by the children who had once been his friends. At what he believed to be fourteen years of age, Rant was eight feet tall,Steven Erikson Teaches Us How to Pronounce Malazan - Book and a Pint - See 52:55 towering over the adult residents of Silver Lake who looked up at him from chest-height.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 14, US HC p.243The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.255 He was so often referred to as "Blood-oil bastard" that he came to believe that "Blood-oil" was his surname.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.52/58 His heavy-boned face, the mass of his body, and the set of his shoulders resembled his father's, while his eyes came from his mother.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 4, US HC p.63The God is Not Willing, Chapter 14, US HC p.236 Like his Teblor sire, Rant possessed two hearts.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.57 Despite his size, he had the innocence of a child and little understood the world around him.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 14, US HC p.242 
Rant and his mother lived in a house by the boat-yards of Silver Lake. Rant's room was in the attic loft overlooking the house's main room.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.250The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.51 Rant was fascinated by the various skulls that decorated the Three-Legged Dog tavern, including one of a Teblor mortared into the stones of its fireplace. The tavern's proprietor, Drunk Menger, had no more love for the "half-breed" than Silver Lake's other residents.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.50-51
The half-Teblor's prized possession--and the only gift he had ever received--was a knife made of Aren steel
given him by a Malazan Marine whose troop had passed through Silver Lake when the boy was five or six years old. The man had seen Rant dodging the stones thrown at him by his "friends" and offered the knife for when he became "tired of playing." It had a leather-bound grip, a short and stubby crosshilt, and a dented and scarred pommel. And it came with a battered and worn wooden sheathe with only a few flecks of gold and red paint still filling its carved patterns.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.60The God is Not Willing, Chapter 6, US HC p.122/123
He wore the hide tunic common to the Teblor slaves of Silver Lake before their uprising, likely because it was the only garment that would fit him.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 4, US HC p.62 His belt was a length of rope.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 10, US HC p.173 He wore moccasins on his feet.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 19, US HC p.353
==In The God is Not Willing==
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==Trivia==
When asked for the inspiration behind Rant's voice and sense of being, author Steven Erikson said he thought that Rant was "almost the equivalent of the Feral child" from old psychology textbooks, but not to the point where he possessed no language skills. "In many respects, Rant's upbringing is a feral upbringing because his mother is in no condition actually to properly convey to her child the social conventions. She's incapable of doing so. So, he was a child who grew up in an imposed isolation, but was unaware of just how dysfunctional that isolation was. At the same time, physically he was going to be growing past all his contemporaries, which would further alienate him and isolate him So, it's very much a voice of a child whose only point of reference is in his own head. And to me there is something very tender in that, and I wanted to hold onto that tenderness in his voice. And so, in a lot of respects, a lot of his experience is that of an innocent being driven by forces outside his control to surrender that innocence in exchange for experience. And at the same time, Rant, because of the nature of his upbringing, and his personality, and the legacy, has a greater appreciation for innocence than any of us would."Steven Erikson Live Q&A - Fantasy/SciFi Focus - See 1:21:30
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