Thom Tissy

Sergeant Thom Tissy was a medium infantryman of the 12th squad, 9th Company, 8th Legion of the Malaz 14th Army. He was described as "virtually hairless" with "a face that might be handsome to a female toad, his cheeks pocked and the backs of his hands covered in warts".House of Chains, Chapter 22, UK MMPB p.846/847 He also had dark, beady eyes, Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.639 calloused hands,Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.791 and short bandy legs that made him squat as an ogre.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17
He had a singular expression of disapproval that made him look "like a man who'd just swallowed a Nacht turd."Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.744
==Thom Tissy's squad==
* Able
* Gupp
* Jump
* Tulip
* Ramp
==In House of Chains==
Thom Tissy was part of Adjunct Tavore Paran's punitive expedition against the Army of the Apocalypse. On the road from Aren to Raraku, he, Tulip, Ramp, and Able had done their share of the fighting, and their names were well known amongst the other soldiers in the legion.House of Chains, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.711
Moak asked his fellow sergeants if they had heard of a killer Heavy infantry soldier named Nefarias Bredd. He was uncertain of Bredd's company or legion, but heard he had killed eighteen raiders in one night. Thom Tissy heard it had been eighteen one night and thirteen the next.
==In The Bonehunters==
After the Battle of Raraku, Leoman led the Army of the Apocalypse westward to Y'Ghatan and the 14th Army followed. Adjunct Tavore launched the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan by sending the army's sappers to breach the city's wall under the cover of night. Thom Tissy was initially short Able, Gupp, and Jump as the three infantry soldiers became first time sappers for the operation. But after the three had assisted in breaching the city's walls, they quickly rejoined his squad.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.283/298
First into the city were the Malazan marines, followed quickly by the heavy and medium infantry.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.291-292 Barely a street in and fearing an ambush, Sergeant Gesler called up Moak's squad as well as Thom Tissy's new sappers and Tugg's heavies to clear the surrounding buildings. In the fighting that followed, the poorly trained sappers misfired their munitions killing Moak's entire squad and themselves. Thom Tissy kept his head and charged forward with Tulip and Ramp to support Tugg's heavies.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.298-300
When enough Malazans were engaged in street fighting inside the city, Leoman sprung his trap. The city's olive oil-soaked buildings were set alight and the streets quickly became an inferno. Thom Tissy's squad and a mixed group of survivors from Gesler's, Fiddler's, Hellian's, and Balm's squads were driven by the fires to the Temple of the Queen of Dreams. He was among the small group of soldiers who survived Y'Ghatan by tunneling their way out from under the city. They spent three days crawling on their hands and knees through the dark led by Bottle and his rat.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.368/370
Unaware that any had survived, the 14th Army made haste for the Kokakal Sea to embark on Admiral Nok's ships and escape the Bluetongue Plague ravaging Seven Cities. Faradan Sort and Sinn remained behind and discovered the survivors as they crawled from the wreckage.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7 Thom Tissy and the others made the long march west, finally catching up to the army on the coast.The Bonehunters, Chapter 16
==In Reaper's Gale==
Adjunct Tavore clashed with Empress Laseen at Malaz City and took the Bonehunters rogue, following the Tiste Edur fleet that had ravaged Sepik back to Lether.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.356 Tavore invaded the Letherii Empire, burning her transport vessels on the shoreline and spreading the marines in isolated pairs of squads across thirty leagues of coast. The marines moved forward into the Letherii countryside towards Letheras, the capital, with orders to kill Edur by night and stir the occupied Letherii into rebellion. Each squad had a mage responsible for hiding their presence and confusing their enemies.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.361-365 Fist Keneb followed in their wake with six squads of marines, including Tissy's 12th squad.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.363-364
His squad during the invasion of the Letherii Empire:Reaper's Gale, Dramatis Personae, US TPB p.15
* Tulip, corporal
* Ramp, heavy infantry
* Jibb, medium infantry
* Gullstream, medium infantry
* Mudslinger, medium infantry
* Bellig Harn, heavy infantry
Once the marines began engaging with the enemy, Keneb had difficulty maintaining contact with his lead elements. From a tall tree Thom Tissy reported seeing the smoke of ten different engagements on the horizon. All heard the thunderous explosion of The Drum Fiddler had set off. Tissy told Keneb that he and the others in the squad understood his anxiety at following impossible orders under difficult conditions. The Fist called him presumptuous and told him to tell his squad to stop theorising. He thought Tissy's words decent, but dangerous. They were not friends.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17, US HC p.500-503 
Contrary to the Adjunct's expectations, the Letherii soldiers did not use the Malazan invasion to turn against their Edur occupiers.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 14, US HC p.410Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17, US HC p.481 As the marines neared Letheras fighting became more desperate, and a large force of Edur stood between Keneb's troops and the forward marines. Thom Tissy heartened the Fist by claiming his troops were ready for a hard fight. They fought their way to a village where all the remaining squads had converged before continuing on together to the capital.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.637-639 Thousands of Edur followed in their wake, pushing them towards the city where the Imperial Brigade awaited.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.673-674
Caught between the two armies near Kravos Hill, the 800 remaining MalazansReaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.745 were forced to huddle under Beak's protective spell when the Letherii mages cast a deadly ritual of Chaos upon them and the Edur. The spell was broken, but the hair of all those under Beak's protection turned white. The Edur abandoned the field after their allies' betrayal, and the shaken Imperial Brigade withdrew to meet Adjunct Tavore's more threatening main force as it disembarked from the Lether River.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.679/686-695
Keneb marched on Letheras thinking the marines deserved to be the first to enter the capital.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.778 After the marines found a hidden entrance beneath the wall, Thom Tissy's squad was among those sent to secure the city's western gate from the inside to allow the main army entrance into the city. City Garrison soldiers tried to retake the gate in bloody fighting, but Tissy's squad held on long enough for Balm's squad, and then others, to arrive.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.779/790-791 Soon the City Garrison surrendered and the city fell.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.812
==In Dust of Dreams==
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==Notes and references==
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