Envy

Lady Envy was a sorceress, daughter of the Elder God Draconus, and sister to Spite.Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.54 Her mother was thought to be Sheltatha Lore.Midnight Tides, Chapter 7, - "Oh? And what were those names, sister?' 'Envy and Spite."
She was described as tall and slim, with long, straight, impossibly clean and perfectly combed black hair, deep red lips, and stunningly beautiful eyes darkened by kohl.Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.52Memories of Ice, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.736 It was remarked by Toc the Younger that she looked around twenty five.Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.57 She wore a flowing, blindingly white, veiled telaba similar to those worn by highborn women of Seven Cities.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.916
Envy possessed great natural charisma, which she enhanced by sorcerous means,Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, SFBC p.59 - Toc's scar itched whenever he felt himself weakening towards Envy despite his better judgement and the seeming ability to read minds.Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, SFBC p.53 - for one example of Envy responding directly to Toc's inner dialogue Her kiss could enslave people to do her bidding. Even those she chose not to bend to her will by sorcery found it difficult to resist her. However, she seemed to prefer to influence those around her with her feminine charms so they would choose the kiss and thus enslavement willingly, instead of simply forcing them to accept it. She admitted to Toc the Younger that she had a penchant for cruelty, and sympathized with his desire to resist her.Memories of Ice, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.330-331/334/339 
Her vast magical powers were not limited to manipulation. She was able to unleash extremely destructive waves of energy against her enemies, slaying hundreds at a time.Memories of Ice, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.418-419 Lady Envy was also very adept at healingMemories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.160 and could cast someone into an involuntary sleep.Memories of Ice, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.327
Toc called her a "mistress of adventure, seduced by serendipity", more likely to act in anger while momentarily affronted rather than driven by vengeance in the long term. She "existed for distraction, for wayward whims."Memories of Ice, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.698 Fatalism was unknown to her.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.937
==History==
Envy was over two hundred thousand years old and her own memories of her long life were sometimes unclear.Memories of Ice, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.274 It was known that Lady Envy once travelled for a time with Anomander Rake and Osric, though their relationship was more like rivals keeping tabs on each other than friends. Eventually, Osric left the group and some time after that, in the days before the Chaining of the Fallen One, an argument erupted between Lady Envy and Anomander, resulting in each of them choosing their own path. Rake went on to participate in the Chaining, but Envy did not.Memories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.155-156 Envy also claimed to have "crushed a few [empires] in my time".Memories of Ice, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.324
== In Memories of Ice ==
Envy made her first appearance in the books at Morn where she resided in a ruined Jaghut tower while she studied the the Rent there. She had with her three charmed Seguleh servants: Senu, Thurule, and Mok, as well as two animal companions: Garath, a large dog, and Baaljagg, the world's only living ay. They were soon joined by Toc the Younger, freshly returned from being stranded in the Warren of Chaos, and the T'lan Imass, Onos T'oolan.Memories of Ice, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.47-59
In her study of the Rent, she determined that the portal seemed almost mechanical in nature and that a K'Chain Che'Malle Matron had escaped from it decades ago before freeing her brood from the nearby barrows. Tool offered her further insight, but requested she accompany him northward to discover the details. As the group ventured towards the territory of the Pannion Domin, Envy took great delight in Toc's company and enjoyed torturing him with her presence.Memories of Ice, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.277Memories of Ice, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.339 
It was soon revealed to the reader that Envy had gathered her odd assortment of companions at the behest of K'rul as part of his plans to oppose the Crippled God. The Elder God sent Envy to wage war with the Pannion Seer in the south while the coalition of Malazan forces with Anomander Rake and Caladan Brood struck from the north. K'rul hoped Envy's attack would split off some of the Seer's forces so the northern coalition had a greater chance of success. Further, the Elder God revealed to Envy that the Crippled God had poisoned the Warrens which were K'rul's own lifeblood and that he was afraid.Memories of Ice, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.272-277
The first of the Pannion forces to fall to Envy's company was a K'ell Hunter followed shortly by Seerdomin Kahlt and his frontier temple.Memories of Ice/Chapter 9, US SFBC p.325-339 Then Envy unleashed her power at Bastion against First Child Anaster's Tenescowri hordes.Memories of Ice/Chapter 9, US SFBC p.343-346 All the while she struggled to keep the Seguleh under her control. The coalition fractured at Bastion when Toc the Younger, feeling himself outclassed among monsters and immortals and no longer willing to be manipulated by Envy, insinuated himself among the Tenescowri hoping to reach his fellow Malazans in the north.Memories of Ice/Chapter 9, US SFBC p.339/341-342/346 But he was soon captured and imprisoned by the Seer.Memories of Ice, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.418
Envy and the others fought their way to the Seer's throne at Outlook despite the efforts of his K'Chain Che'Malle and his Omtose Phellack sorcery.Memories of Ice, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.528 Unable to stop them, the Seer fled with Toc to Coral.Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.556-557/559 Tool left Envy's company to follow Toc on his own, but they were soon joined by Lanas Tog, who they discovered floating in Coral Bay aboard the wreckage of a Meckros city. Envy looted the warren of Poliel to sow the plague amongst the Pannions, delighted to beset the allies of the Goddess of Disease who had thrown in with the Crippled God. In the process she became somewhat estranged from Garath when he fell to the same sickness. Mok demanded she heal her faithful servant.Memories of Ice, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.735-741
Envy arrived at Coral amidst the Malazan siege of the city. While the three Seguleh, Lanas Togg, and Garath raced ahead inside the Seer's keep, Envy and Baaljag stumbled upon Picker's company of embattled Bridgeburners. She magically healed the gravely injured soldiers in return for their promise to help her locate and rescue Toc.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.916-917 Envy slew waves of Urdomen soldiers, but Bridgeburners died all around her. After stumbling upon Toc's corpse, the Bridgeburners considered their deal complete and made to withdraw with his body. Miffed at being left alone, Envy headed to the keep's roof to seek revenge on the Seer.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.941-942
As Anomander Rake brought Moon's Spawn crashing down onto the keep to end the battle, Envy escaped by Warren bringing the Seguleh and Garath to safety with her. She complained to Rake, who responded that if he had known she was there he would have hit the keep harder. She warned the Tiste Andii that her blood whispered that Draconus plotted to escape Dragnipur. She was astonished by his lack of concern and reminded him how difficult it had been to slay her father the first time. She had merely stood by and not intervened at the time, but Rake declared Draconus had known better than to ask for her help.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.974-975
Later, Envy revealed to her companions that Rake had banished her and them from the city. The goal of their punitive mission complete, Envy announced she would escort the three Seguleh back to their island.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.994-995
== In Midnight Tides==
In a vision, Udinaas witnessed Menandore and Sukul Ankhadu carrying the unconscious body of Sheltatha Lore. Sukul Ankhadu claimed that Sheltatha had taken Draconus as a lover and birthed "two horrid little children" named Envy and Spite. The two sisters planned to bury Envy's mother in the same Azath Tower that held Silchas Ruin, although Osseric warned against it.Midnight Tides, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.232
==In The Bonehunters==
While traveling with Mappo Runt and Iskaral Pust, Spite warned that she could sense a terrible Convergence ahead and each of the three companions would have a role to play in it. Spite's role would put her "face to face with my evil sister at the very end, a meeting from which but one of us will walk away when all is done between us."The Bonehunters, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.762
At Coop's Hanged Man Inn in Malaz City, Braven Tooth chatted with the Tiste Andii castaway, Phaed. He was dazzled by her smile and inquired about her heritage as she appeared half human. Phaed told him her father was Nimander Golit, the first son of Anomander Rake, and her mother was Lady Envy, a former companion of Rake's who "got her revenge taking his son as a lover."The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US HC p.826
==In Reaper's Gale==
After Silchas Ruin escaped from his Azath prison he encountered Clip, the Bluerose Tiste Andii whose people worshiped Anomander Rake. According to their histories, Rake had a mercurial dalliance with Lady Envy around the time of the sundering of Kurald Emurlahn.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 6, US HC p.155
== In Toll the Hounds ==
Anomander Rake gave Baruk a copy of Dillat's Dark and Light from his personal library. The archaic book described an incident in which Rake and Osseric had been allied against the evil tyrant Draconus, Slayer of Eleint. Rake had struck Draconus unconscious and left Osseric to guard him. But when Rake returned, he found Osseric bloodied and Draconnus freed by Sister Spite's hand. Anomander vowed his alliance with Osseric would one day end and he would wage war on him and his kin. Spite and Envy secretly watched this result of their manipulations and were pleased. Rake set out in pursuit of Draconus, while Osseric sought vengeance against Spite. Crone found the account inaccurate, explaining that Osseric and Rake's alliance fell apart because of a growing mutual dislike in which Draconus was merely the death-blow. She found the book's description of Rake's vow against Osserc amusing. But she did scold Osserc for falling for Spite's womanly wiles.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.51-54
Lady Envy moved to Darujhistan, where she fell in love with the bard, Fisher kel Tath.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.607-609 Her gated estate was located next to Hinter's Tower and its main house was described as small and elegant in a vaguely feminine way. The main courtyard was overgrown and weedy with walls covered in wisteria in full bloom. Large snakes sunned themselves on the warm stone. Arched pathways of vine-webbed tunnels on either side of the house led to a back garden where a dozen full-sized bronze statues stood amidst a flagstone clearing. Her needs were attended to by the Seguleh, Thurule.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.537
Iskaral Pust entrenched himself at the city's Temple of Shadow where he lusted after High Priestess Sordiko Qualm. When the High Priestess had business at the estate of Lady Envy, Pust tagged along. His annoying manner soon had Envy considering his murder until Sordiko Qualm informed the incredulous ascendant that Pust was the Magus of Shadow. In Envy's beauty, he recognised the similarities to her sibling and he attempted to ingratiate himself by telling her about the presence of Spite onboard the ship in the harbour. An excited Envy jumped up to say, "I thought so!"Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, UK HB p.489
On the last night of the Gedderone Fête, when powerful forces converged on Darujhistan, Spite went to her sister's estateToll the Hounds, Chapter 21, UK HB p.769 and by means of sorcery, buried it in a giant ball of magma.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, UK HB p.783 The magic was more powerful than Spite anticipated and she was forced to run back up the alley to escape. The display was observed by Envy in a state of jealousy. The two sisters then engaged in a sorcerous duel.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, UK HB p.783/784 As Envy's magic engulfed her from twenty paces away, Spite unleashed her full power in a counterattack. Soon, they were both standing in a sagging crater surrounded by buildings whose faces had been melted into glass.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.853-854/879Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.930-931
The fighting only stopped when the women sensed Anomander Rake draw Dragnipur from its scabbard nearby in the city. A quick truce was called for the women to kill Rake and retrieve the sword they considered their birthright from their father. But both women planned to betray the other as soon as the sword was taken.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.931Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.967 
Spite and Envy turned up together at the scene of the duel between Dassem Ultor and Anomander Rake. With Rake's death at Dassem's hands, Dragnipur lay open for the taking. The two women used their magic to battle and drive off the Hounds of Shadow defending the sword, but before they could claim it Caladan Brood arrived in Baruk's carriage. It took only meeting the deadly regard of Brood's strangely bestial eyes for the two sisters to abandon their plans.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, UK HB p.863/865/887/907
The next morning, Envy walked amongst the tens of thousands of mourners who followed Brood from the city to witness him place Rake in his barrow. Afterwards, Fisher found her in her newly refreshed garden where she told the bard that her father, Draconus, was back.Toll the Hounds, Epilogue, US SFBC p.1007 Leaving Darujhistan by ship that same day, Spite told Cutter that Envy had once loved Rake. She believed that love had ended when Rake acquired Dragnipur and Envy lived up to her name.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.999
== In Orb Sceptre Throne==
During the Seguleh mass expedition to Darujhistan, three Seguleh attempted to bring the renegade, Thurule, back into the fold. Instead he removed his mask and crushed it under his foot. Miffed at Thurule by the loss of his "mysterious cachet", Lady Envy released him from her service.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 13, US TPB p.387-388
Envy and Fisher parted ways and Envy was soon part of the court surrounding the reborn Tyrant. There she had an unexpected encounter with her father, Draconus, which caused her to faint in shock.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 20, US TPB p.556
==In Forge of Darkness==
At the time of Mother Dark's ascension, Envy and her triplet sisters, Spite and Malice, lived with Draconus and their brother Arathan at Dracons Hold in Kurald Galain and appeared to be young girls.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 1, UK HC p.5 In a conversation with Draconus, Olar Ethil claimed the three children as her and Draconus' spawn, contradicting earlier indications that their mother was Sheltatha Lore.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 11, UK MMPB p.470
Their father told them that they would age like normal Tiste until they reached the age of eight or nine. Afterwards they would only mature after experiencing death-like trauma. Envy and Spite convinced Malice that if she died she would return more powerful than her hated older sisters. Malice agreed, so Spite strangled her.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 13, UK HC p.387-8 When Malice remained dead, the two sisters hid the body and concluded that they needed to murder any who would notice she was missing, so they set about murdering the Dracons household staff.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 13, UK HC p.390 Their murder spree appeared short lived when house surgeon, Atran, overpowered them both. Only the sudden appearance of a reanimated Malice saved them.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 13, UK HC p.398 Afterwards, the girls hid in the walls of the Hold until Malice's deathlike stench became too much and they locked her in a blazing kitchen oven.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 19, UK HC p.604
==In Fall of Light==
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== Quotes ==
==Trivia==
*Author Steven Erikson says Envy "sees the world...[and] takes things very literally" and she has an "objective point of view...The Malazan soldiers are the very opposite, everything is understatement and it requires nuance to actually understand their language and she's just alien to it." "She doesn't read the Bridgeburners' sarcasm."Ten Very Big Books podcast - Memories of Ice - See 16:50
*Erikson describes Envy and her sisters in Forge of Darkness as "sociopaths". He says "in some ways it's almost that notion of if granted immortality at too young an age, it can twist the individual to complete disregard of the value of life versus death. It's not relevant to them. And hence the world around them. It just becomes something they can manipulate as best they can for their own personal purposes...[T]hey're just absolutely batshit crazy...And that can be fun to write as well, right. It's intended as a kind of a dark comedy...What they do with Malice and all the rest. And Malice's return, and etc. etc. Kind of Blood Simple."Steven Erikson Discussion - Death in Malazan (Spoiler Warning) - Books with Banks - See 48:15
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==Notes and references==
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