Kagamandra Tulas

Kagamandra Tulas Shorn (or Tulas Shorn) was a long dead Tiste Edur Soletaken Eleint and a cousin to Anomander Rake.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.937 During his life, he had been a master of beasts and the original master of the Hounds of Shadow.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.658 He was said to have died while allied with the Jaghut during their War on Death, although he sometimes claimed to know the circumstances of his death, and other times did not.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.630-631/654
==Appearance==
Tulas Shorn was tall and gaunt, his skin was grey as cobwebs and dust. With long pallid hair, ropy with filth. He wore the remnants of a long chain hauberk, unbelted with an empty splintered scabbard hanging from the baldric beneath his right arm. Leggings of some kind of thick hide, scaled and the hue of forest loam, reached down to grey leather boots that rose to just below the knees. No light was reflected from the pits of his eyes.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, UK HB p.595/596
In his Eleint form, he was an enormous undead monstrosity with a rotted wedge-shaped head of gleaming bone and shreds of desiccated skin.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.629 Beneath gnarled brow ridges, shadowed pits nearly obscured his withered, grey and black mottled eyes. His mouth displayed massive fangs and shredded gums. His gaunt forelimbs bore a tracery of fine roots that were a colourless mockery of blood vessels. The sails of his wings were torn and his tail was tattered.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.561-562 
==In Toll the Hounds==
Endest Silann was invited to meet with Anomander Rake in a room of pure darkness within the New Palace of Black Coral. The room reminded the old castellan of Kharkanas as he once knew it--before Mother Dark "embraced Light, before the ones born of ashes lifted themselves up and took swords in hand. Scabandari. Ilgast Rend, Halyd Bahann. Esthala who dreamed of peace. Kagamandra Tulas Shorn, who did not."Toll the Hounds, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.571-572 
Master Quell and Gruntle of the Trygalle Trade Guild travelled to Hood's realm to learn why an army of the dead seemed to block the Guild's passage. The shade of Toc the Younger warned them that Hood's realm was closed to the living just before the ground burst beneath their feet and a massive dead dragon crawled from the ground. It followed Quell and Gruntle through the portal the mage frantically opened back to the Malazan world. As it flew away, Master Quell could only say "oops" at the prospect of unleashing an undead dragon upon the world.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.554-562/580 
The Eleint next appeared at the camp of Kallor somewhere south of Darujhistan. It told Kallor it had fought and died alongside the Jaghut armies in their unwinnable War on Death. Even Kallor's eyes teared at the sacrifice of millions. Now the Eleint dreamt of a Throne and sought to offer its broken body in service to a new master--the Crippled God.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.628-632
The dragon landed near the camp of Karsa Orlong, Samar Dev, and Traveller on the Dwelling Plain, sembling into a Tiste Edur who warily introduced himself as Tulas Shorn. Speaking in her native Ugari, he bowed before Samar Dev naming her a priestess of Burn despite her protestations. He said Burn dreamed of her often. The witch had to calm Karsa and Traveller as their first instinct was to attack the strange Tiste Edur, who claimed he only wanted company after too long a period of solitude. Traveller warned Tulas Shorn that Hood would reclaim him sooner or later. Tulas Shorn, in turn, asked Samar Dev if she would fight for Burn to expunge the sickness of the Crippled God's pain from her body. He said he did not have the courage required to take on the God's pain. When they awoke the next morning, they discovered Tulas Shorn had stolen Samar Dev and Traveller's horses. Samar Dev was hurt by their guest's betrayal, but Traveller saw it as a sign the Soletaken remained Hood's creature--they would be delayed in reaching Darujhistan.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.651-658 
They believed the horses dead, but Tulas Shorn had known too much death to casually kill innocent creatures. Instead he carried a horse in each foot in his Eleint form, setting them down near a herd of wild horses in order to set them free. From the air, he caught scent of the Hounds of Shadow on the Lamatath Plain and mused about having been their first master. As a master of beasts, he had often been ridiculed for his practices amongst his fellow Tiste Edur. Now he wondered if his Hounds would remember "the one who had taken them when they were raw and half-wild and taught them the vast power of a faith that would never know betrayal?"Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, UK HB p.598/599/600 
He found the Hounds with Shadowthrone and Cotillion, who he mocked as his Hounds' new pets. Even though the Hounds refused his attempts to beckon them closer, Tulas Shorn was pleased to see them. When he learned Doan and Ganrod had perished at Rake's hands, he was at first startled that Rake still lived before expressing surprise that his Hounds would remain with masters too feeble to avenge their kin. He thought to challenge the gods for the Throne of Shadow, which he had occupied for a short time before his death, until Pallid and Lock appeared snarling amongst the Hounds. The Tiste Edur was horrified by their bone-white presence, warning Shadowthrone and Cotillion they did not know what they were dealing with. He veered and escaped as all seven Hounds surged to attack.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.719-721
Tulas Shorn was among the many who converged on Darujhistan on the last night of the Gedderone Fête. After Traveller faced Anomander Rake, the undead dragon helped defend Dragnipur from the Hounds of Light by carrying away three of the Hounds and dropping them from a great height north of Lake Azur.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.965/968
==In The Crippled God==
thumb|200x200px|Silchas and Tulas by [https://www.instagram.com/shadaan_studios/ Shadaan]
Undead Tulas Shorn met and traveled with Silchas Ruin. Along with Ruin, Ampelas, Kalse, Eloth, Telorast and Curdle, he fought to defend Korabas from the attacking Eleint in the 'War of Awakening'. He was destroyed in the battle.
== In Forge of Darkness ==
Millennia before the events of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, his name was Kagamandra Tulas, not yet Shorn, and he came from a Tiste Lesser House. During the Forulkan War he became a cohort commander of Urusander's Legion and saved the life of Silchas Ruin. The war left him a traumatized veteran, gaunt from years of deprivation and hunger. But in the act of saving Ruin, he had earned the blessing of Mother Dark and was rewarded with a new High House. The much younger Faror Hend of House Durav was chosen to be his betrothed, but neither was made happy by the arrangement. Faror took a distant assignment with the Wardens of the Outer Reach.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 4, UK PB p.150
Learning that Faror was in danger on the Vitr shore Kagamandra led the charge to find her.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 7, UK PB p.263/267-269 
Returning to the Legion's home at Neret Sorr, Kagamandra made the decision to resign his commission and leave the Legion for Faror.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 18, UK PB p.795 Before he could depart word arrived of the murders of House Enes and Kagamandra was nearly overcome by the knowledge that war had returned to Kurald Galain. He declared that he would immediately ride for Faror and flee the realm.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 18, UK PB p.816
When Scara Bandaris brought twenty-five Jheleck pups to Kharkanas as Hostages, Silchas Ruin suggested the 'hounds' be placed in Kagamandra's care.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 15, UK PB p.634
==In Fall of Light==
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==Trivia==
When asked if there was any connection between the "Shorn" in Tulas Shorn's name and the Tiste Edur practice of Shorning shown in House of Chains, Steven Erikson said it was only a coincidence.Ten Very Big Books podcast - Toll the Hounds - Conversation with Steven Erikson - See 1:08:15
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==Notes and references==
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