Tallen

Tallen was a Napan Sergeant during the reign of King Tarel.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 17, US HC p.263-264 His father-in-law was the Quartermaster-General of the main warehouse complex in Dariyal. 
The quartermaster-general was a fat man with heavy-lidded eyes. 
==In Kellanved's Reach==
After Surly's Malazan forces conquered Dariyal, Cartharon Crust painstakingly went over the books of the capital's military supplies with a staff of bookkeepers and the captured quartermaster-general. In Crust's opinion, logistics were key to winning a war. And although some amount of corruption could be expected, he was outraged to discover that the quartermaster had committed outright fraud, falsifying months of requisition records for a nonexistent Seventh Company of the Napan Eighteenth Regiment. Supplies of weapons, uniforms, food, and pay were all vouchered to a Quartermaster Sergeant Nellat who did not appear on any list of enrollment. The quartermaster-general hemmed and hawed until Crust noted the name's similarity to his son-in-law, Sergeant Tallen.
The quartermaster-general insisted there was nothing Crust could do without proof to support his accusations, but Crust ordered him arrested and sent off for the military court to decide. Crust was angered that someone might one day have tried to order the phantom Seventh Company to hold a position, or support another troop, only to belatedly find the company did not exist.
==Notes and references==
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