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==In Gardens of the Moon==
*In 1154 BS, Paran had a Napan tutor.Gardens of the Moon, Prologue, UK MMPB p.6 He recalled later that, like every other Napan he had met, the tutor had shown little respect.Memories of Ice, Chapter 2, UK B p.99
*An Agent who met Paran in Genabaris. He was described as having burly arms and small, narrow eyes.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.97 He was smaller than Paran, something he disliked.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.98/99 Paran later reminisced that unlike other Claws, this one seemed to have liked him.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.113
*Old Rockface is a name mentioned by Picker. Old Rockface laid money on Paran not lasting more than two days. Possibly a nickname for Trotts who is mentioned in the following paragraph and who is described as talking in a monotone voice, possibly indicating he might not express much emotion, thus Rockface.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.120
*A Gatekeeper appeared when Paran encountered Oponn at Hood's Gate. The gatekeeper changed its appearance at random from initially looking bent and limping, wearing rags, an old woman to being a child with drool on its face, a deformed young girl, a stunted, broken Trell, then presenting itself as a desiccated Tiste Andii. When it grinned it displayed muddy yellow teeth and its bones shifted under creaking skin. There was a hint of glimmer in its eye sockets. It spoke with a quavering voice and seemed to dislike its cackled laugh, wishing for a mellifluous, deep throated laugh instead.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.137/138
*Three Hunters chased Crokus Younghand across the rooftops of Darujhistan after having initially killed Talo Krafar in a secret war against the Assassins' Guild. They were cloaked and at least one of them used a heavy assassins crossbow. Another used two long-knives. They descended from heights by sorcerous means. One was in command of the other two.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 5, UK MMPB p.182-192 They were likely part of a group of Tiste Andii who were tasked to take out the Guild and the commander, Serrat, might have been the female in charge of the attempt on Crokus.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 13, UK MMPB p.427-429
*The Refugee from Pale was a man at the Boar's Tears tavern in Worrytown who was listening to one of Kruppe's stories. Upon the arrival of Crokus Younghand, the man seemed to be glad to have an excuse to escape, even leaving his glass behind which was still two-thirds full of wine.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.238/239
*The Black Moranth patrol leader spoke to Whiskeyjack after the Black had dropped the sergeant and his squad on the shores of Lake Azur. The Moranth warrior was referred to as male. He was wearing a hinged helmet and it was audible when he swiveled his head.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 8, UK MMPB p.256-258
*A Shaman of the Ilgres Barghast lead a warband of the tribe who attacked Imperial Adjunct Lorn and the Jakatakan Élites charged with her protection, on the Rhivi Plain. Lorn's Otataral sword negated the shamans magic and he was killed by a sword thrust to the throat.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 9, UK MMPB p.269 Lorn surmised that the Shaman had detected the presence of Onos T'oolan in the area and had transported himself and his hand-picked hunters there by Warren.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 9, UK MMPB p.274 Before his death, the shaman had used his talents to kill the horses of Lorn's group with a disease.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 9, UK MMPB p.277
*A Guardsman at the D'Arle estate was effortlessly killed by Sorry as she followed Crokus Younghand when he returned the jewels he previously stole. The man had been the only guard patrolling in the garden of the estate at the time.Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 13, UK MMPB p.418
==In Deadhouse Gates==
*A Tapuharal in Hissar, carrying four-foot skewers of roasted meats and fruit in each hand was hailed over by Duiker. The Tapu, speaking the coastal Debrahl language, mistook the historian for a Dosii and warned him about Mezla spies.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.68
*An ancient shaman was conducting a ritualistic divination known as the Circle of Seasons in Hissar together with the blind boy (see below). The seer was described as having a silver-barbed, skin-threaded face, marking him to be of the Semk tribe.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.69/70
*The Blind boy performed a ritualistic divination known as the Circle of Seasons in Hissar, witnessed by Duiker. He was about fifteen, with gouged out eyes and in an advanced stage of malnutrition. Likely an orphan of the Malazan conquest who had lived on the streets. At the end of the dance, the boy fell to the ground, dead.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.69/70
*An Ex-Hissar Guard was watching the Circle of Seasons ritual in Hissar with Duiker. The squat man had the scars of his Regiment on his cheeks, poorly obscured by mutilating burns. His teeth were stained. Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.69
*A hunchbacked pimp in Ehrlitan snatched two girls after their nurse had been killed by Red Blades. He was described as having the white skin of a Skrae, blackened teeth and moving with a hobble. The pimp was prevented from despoiling the girls by Fiddler who bought them and returned them to their grandfather. In the meantime, the girls' guards, who had fled the Red Blades, returned and found the Simharal. It was not stated if they took revenge on him.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.86-88
*A Leopard D'ivers attacked Icarium and Mappo Runt in the Pan'potsun Odhan. It took the shape of a dozen sandy coloured leopards. One of the cats managed to injure Mappo in the initial surprise of the attack but was killed by him. The other eleven were killed by Icarium.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.105/106
*An unnamed Red Blade in Ehrlitan, described as having a dark face and dull grey teeth, was a member of a troop of six mounted Red Blades who were questioning those about to leave through Caravan Gate if they had seen a man on a roan stallion leaving that morning. The unnamed man questioned Fiddler who was disguised as a Gral and acting like one, wanted coin for answers. The Red Blade spat at Fiddler's feet and rode off to rejoin his troop.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.141
*A sergeant of the rebels and Duiker observed the aftermath of the battle between Coltaine and the Army of the Whirlwind at Bat'rol. The sergeant said they would join the army at Meila and only gestured mutely when Duiker said he would go his own way.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.265/266 
*A scout of the rebels brought news that Kamist Reloe was alive and that a High Mage was joining the rebels with an army from the north.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.266 
*An Insane Mage attacked the Ripath as it made its way to Otataral Island. The mage had been driven mad by his exposure to Otataral at the Skullcup mining camp. On board were Gesler, Stormy, Truth, and Kulp come to rescue Heboric, Baudin, and Felisin Paran. Heboric said the man controlled his warren like a child holding the leash of one of the Hounds of Shadow. The mage sent the ship plunging through a rent into the Nascent.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 8 There they met a Logros T'lan Imass hunting party led by Hentos Ilm. The Bonecaster slew the mage to prevent further damage to the warren.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 9
*A Tithansi warleader so bedeviled Coltaine's Chain of Dogs after the Battle of Sekala Crossing that the Fist sent a large squad of veteran soldiers to assassinate him. The warleader was built like a bear, all muscled and hairy, and wore the fur of that animal about his shoulders. He carried a single-bladed throwing axe and decorated his cheeks with slashes of red paint designating recent victories. The squad was successful but soon realised their true target was the Semk godling at the warleader's side.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.308/317
*A Wickan warlock was one of several Wickan elders slain by Empress Laseen who were later reincarnated and serving Coltaine as children during the Chain of Dogs. This unnamed warlock was a young boy whose thin, bony arms were hatch-marked with scars from wrist to shoulder. He accompanied Nil, Lull, Duiker, and a squad of marines on a mission to assassinate a Tithansi warleader (see above). The mission went south and the young warlock was slain by the Semk godling.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 12, US HC p.313/318
*The Aren treasurer was Pormqual's personal treasurer. This treasurer was leaving Aren aboard the "Ragstopper" accompanied by Pormqual's plunder.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 15, US HC p.389/391
*A Jaghut ghost visited the feverish Corporal List as he hovered near Hood's gate. The ghost told him that the lands south of the River Vathar were lifeless because of something terrible that happened two hundred thousand years ago. The T'lan Imass had waged war against the Jaghut, his family, and his species, breaking their bones and pinning their still living bodies under rocks. The T'lan Imass sought their eradication while the Jaghut fought back passively with barriers of glacial ice. Even so long after the event, the ghost was tortured by grief.Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 15, US HC p.404-405Deadhouse Gates, Chapter 19, US HC p.501-502
==In Memories of Ice==
*An Addled Rhivi woman cared for the Mhybe in her wagon while Caladan Brood's army marched on Capustan. She had lost her faculties when she had been kicked in the head by a Bhederin. The Rhivi believed that spirits worked through adults with the minds of children and so they were often charged with preparing corpses for burial. The old woman cleaned and bathed the rapidly aging Mhybe and hummed children's songs while combing her hair. When the woman who met no-one's eyes locked gazes with the Mhybe, the Mhybe felt the woman a reflection of her own prison. One a child's mind in a woman's body. The other a young woman in an old woman's body.Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.619-620
*High Alchemist Baruk entrusted Kruppe with a glass ball containing his Bhokaral servant. He broke the ball before Quick Ben and Ganoes Paran releasing the Bhokaral. Speaking in single word exclamations, it declared Baruk's wish to help regarding the Whirlwind rebellion in Seven Cities. It shouted out references to Coltaine, Icarium, Raraku, and the Azath. Quick Ben pulled it aside to discuss details.Memories of Ice, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.776-777
*A young Grey Sword messenger approached Itkovian during the first night of fighting in the Siege of Capustan. His face was horribly burned on one side and he was blinded in one eye, but he insisted on reporting to the Shield Anvil before allowing Destriant Karnadas to heal him. The messenger notified Itkovian that the inhabitants of the Senar Camp had been slaughtered and the defenders of Jehbar Tower surrounded. The situation had looked grim until the sudden appearance of a foreigner with a half a score of Capan followers. The man broke down the gate of Tular Camp and presented the inhabitants with the half eaten corpse of a Senar child. The example of what the enemy meant to do to their own children motivated the Camp's Capanthall to join the fighting. Holding the child's tunic as a standard, the foreigner led an ad hoc militia to relieve Jehbar Tower and defend the West Gate. The messenger told Itkovian the man fought like a boar.Memories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.479-480
*During the Siege of Capustan, Itkovian summoned a Grey Sword Trimaster who commanded Wings One, Three, and Five of the Grey Swords cavalry. One of the Shield Anvil's oldest officers, he was lean and tall with a grey beard covering the countless scars on his face. Itkovian assigned him the nearly suicidal task of leading a cavalry sortie to rescue any Gidrath survivors at the besieged East Watch redoubt outside the city. The Trimaster successfully completed his mission and afterwards brought word that his scouts had seen the Tenescowri peasant hordes on the move.Memories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.473-474/481 He likely perished later in the siege.
*Humbrall Taur's youngest son was a thin and scrawny unnamed youth still two moons away from his Death Night. Although weak in appearance, the Barghast was a deadly and accomplished fighter. He was said to have been born with blades in his hands and was a dark-hearted fighter without mercy. When Trotts challenged the Barghast for leadership, Humbrall Taur set his son as the White Face champion. The boy fought only with a short hook-knife, leather armour, and a quick and mobile fighting style. Trotts fatally defeated the boy using Malazan armour and discipline, but not before his own throat had been crushed. Only Malazan healing magic saved Trotts' life. Taur was irritated to lose a great warrior who had won twenty-three other duels without a wound.Memories of Ice, Chapter 11
*A Lestari sergeant appointed himself second-in-command of Gruntle's ad hoc militia during the Siege of Capustan. He was a small and wiryMemories of Ice, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.536 Lestari Guardsman who had likely fled that city with his fellows when it fell to the Pannion Domin. He had short legs and long arms. The sergeant joined Gruntle during the fighting at Capustan's North Gate and quickly proved his worth in organising the soldiers and relaying Gruntle's commands.Memories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.476 Gruntle soon promoted him to lieutenant.Memories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.478 The Lestari was quick to recognise Gruntle's status as the Mortal Sword of Trake and developed the same barbed stripes as Gruntle's other followers.Memories of Ice, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.538Memories of Ice, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.568 He followed Gruntle to Coral as the Trake's Legion's only officer and perished in the fighting there.Memories of Ice, Chapter 22Memories of Ice, Chapter 25
*Lady Envy's party encountered several Pannion priests of Bastion as they crossed from the Plain of Lamatath into the lands of the Pannion Domin. The first priest resided at a temple run by Seerdomin Kahlt in a small empty hamlet outside Bastion. He was a pale-skinned, emaciated man of indeterminate age with a shaved head and eyebrows. He had watery grey eyes and wore no clothes. The priest welcomed Envy's party into the temple where the ripe corpses of the hamlet's villagers hung from hooks on the walls. He likely perished with the rest of the temple faithful when Envy and her party destroyed Kahlt and his temple.Memories of Ice, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.331-332 Later, Envy and the others entered nearby Bastion. They were greeted by three pale, shaven, and gaunt priests wearing colourless robes. The priests offered to assist Envy and the others with surviving the coming Embrasure of the Pannion faith. They explained how Bastion had been the first to receive the word of the Pannion Seer and saw the creation of the first Children of the Dead Seed. The priests then fled at the appearance of the First Child Anaster and his ravenous Tenescowri mob.Memories of Ice, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.344-345
*Parsemo may not have been the complete name of one of Gruntle's old masters as Gruntle was interrupted when he mentioned the name to Buke. Parsemo had married Lethro, whom Gruntle had had an eye on, during one of the latter's absences from Darujhistan. Gruntle called Parsemo 'a bloated crook'Memories of Ice,Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.145 and a 'fat merchant'.Memories of Ice, Chapter 6
==In House of Chains==
*While traveling through Rathyd lands, Karsa Orlong, Bairoth Gild, and Delum Thord discovered a hidden cave containing the cairn of a Teblor elder. Upon the walls of the cave, carved in an antique form of Teblor glyphs, was the secret history of their race. They were a fallen people, few in number and stagnate in blood. Therefore, they tore down their cities and the elder brought his people to safety from the indiscriminate slaughter of the T'lan Imass. On the advice of Icarium, he proclaimed the Laws of Isolation splitting up families into eight tribes named for his father's sons: Buryd, Gelad, Lathyd, Manyd, Phalyd, Rathyd, Sanyd, and Urad. In reclaiming the ways of their primitive past, he hoped to provide a future for their race.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.69-74 For his efforts, he was ultimately cast out of Teblor society.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.74 It was unclear whether one of the eight sons' names was his own.
*A Malazan captain was in charge of a squad of Marines that became stranded on Drift Avalii with Hawl and Traveller. She was ten or more years older than Cutter, and tall and muscular with deep bronze skin and beautiful tilted, gold-hued eyes. Her long hair was stained red, and she wore tanned leathers. When Cutter asked for her soldiers' help defending the Throne of Shadow from the Tiste Edur she refused. But she relented when Traveller convinced her that the action was needed for the sake of the Malazan Empire. Cutter later found the Malazans' bodies at the centre of a ring of dead Tiste Edur. The captain was presumed dead.House of Chains, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.442-447
*Kalam Mekhar visited the market stall of a Shopkeeper in G'danisban some time after the city's Malazan occupiers had been driven out by the Whirlwind rebellion. The toothless old man sold various objects looted from old tombs, booty recovered from the Chain of Dogs, and a variety of Decks of Dragons. Insisting on his loyalty to Dryjhna, he nevertheless proved knowledgeable about the Deck's foreign magic and informed Kalam that the Decks were in flux. A new Unaligned card denoting the Master of the Deck had appeared to evaluate the new High House Chains. The Crippled God's House had not yet been sanctioned, but few Readers doubted it soon would be. Kalam purchased two Wickan long-knives, which had been owned by Coltaine's fallen Crow clan members. One was alloyed with Otataral and the other invested with Thelomen Toblakai magic. The assassin paid for his purchases with a number of diamonds containing Azalan demons. Before Kalam departed, the "honest hawker" reported that the city's former Malazan garrison was holed up in the cliffside fortress of B'ridys.House of Chains, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.344-347
*A Demon Familiar of L'oric had been L'oric's companion for centuries. It was a misshapen, bird-sized demon with thick, matted hair and sorrowful eyes. Despite its ugliness, L'oric felt depthless wellsprings of love for it. L'oric used this familiar to hide his father Osric's disappearance from his own people, the Tiste Liosan. Without their god, Osric's seneschals would not be able to call upon their magic. So the familiar answered their prayers without the senechals' knowledge. This came to an abrupt end when T'lan Imass led by the Bonecaster, Monok Ochem, sensed the deception. The undead warriors slew the familiar, forcing L'oric to seek help from the Queen of Dreams.House of Chains, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.462/476-477House of Chains, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.487-491
*At one point in his history, Icarium had been accompanied by a Toblakai companion. The Toblakai was with the Jhag when Icarium unleashed his legendary rage in an attempt to free his father Gothos from an Azath House in the Jhag Odhan. Only the Toblakai's quick action to strike Icarium unconscious had prevented the Jhag's success, although the already dying House was fatally wounded.House of Chains, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.587
==In Midnight Tides==
* A Nerek mother and her children lived in the alleyway between Tehol Beddict's home and Biri's warehouse. Biri's watchman, Chalas, turned a blind eye to the mother and her two half-breed children, who may have caught rats for food.Midnight Tides, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.72-73 After Tehol began his partnership with Shand, Rissarh, and Hejun, he sent the three Nerek to live with them to serve as their cook and runners.Midnight Tides, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.92 Ultimately, Shand and the others sent the Nerek family ahead to Tehol's islands with the other refugees because the family ate more than the mother cooked and were getting fat.Midnight Tides, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.440
* The Matriarch and Patriarch of the Beddict family were the parents of Hull, Tehol, and Brys Beddict. Their mother was exceedingly smart and managed the family's investments. Brys thought Tehol had inherited her brains. Their father was a graceful and deadly fighter who trained his sons, Hull and Brys. Tehol thought Brys in particular an image of their father's skill. But father Beddict became caught up in a snare of debt and mother Beddict could not save him because she feared the impact on her children if she burned the whole Letherii system down to do it. Father Beddict took his own life years ago and their mother perished under unknown circumstances at the same time. Tehol met Bugg when his future manservant served as their embalmer. Afterwards, Brys and Beddict chose professions that allowed them to turn their backs on the Letherii economic system. Tehol followed his mother's example and thought of ways to burn the entire system to the ground.Midnight Tides, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.148-151
* A Letherii priest visiting the Thurlas Temple School carried on an affair with a young Seren Pedac. She claimed to have seduced him, and when they were discovered the priest lied to protect her. He was excommunicated for the act and later took his own life.Midnight Tides, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.162-163
* An Executioner visited the Temple Brothel in Letheras to visit its newest and most popular prostitute, Shurq Elalle. Tehol Beddict and Bugg encountered the man as he exited the establishment. He was described as a huge man with small eyes and a raspy voice wearing a hooded, black surcoat and carrying a double-bladed axe in his gauntleted hands. The executioner made the pair promise they had not seen him as he walked away before reacting unexpectedly daintily to the rain. Shurq commented that the executioner's huge axe was 'pathetic compensation'.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.301/304
* The Rat Catchers' Guild Secretary worked at a desk in the reception room of the guild's headquarters at Scale House. He had small, dark eyes under a single wiry brow, ink-stained fingers, and a twitchy nose. Bugg approached the secretary to arrange a meeting between Tehol Beddict and the guild's board. The secretary was dubious about Bugg's chances until the servant mentioned that price was no consideration, within limits. After an appointment was arranged, Bugg unexpectedly satisfied his curiosity by thrusting his fingers into the secretary's eyes, proving he was an illusion. Bugg thought the guild sorcerer's illusion superb, but commented that its appearance was too rat-like.Midnight Tides, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.374-375/390
* A Faraed Scout watched the trail beyond the Narrow Chute leading through a mountain pass to Tiste Edur territory at the start of the Edur's war with the Letherii Empire. Trull Sengar was leading fifty Edur down the trail when the scout was spotted by Trull's own point soldier. Trull engineered an ambush of the enemy scout in which Badar thrust a spear into the scout's back as he tried to flee. Trull was disgusted to see the scout was only a fourteen- or fifteen-year-old Faraed boy, while the other Edur congratulated Badar for becoming a blooded warrior.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.470-471 Trull later learned from B'nagga that the boy had a magical thread tied to him, alerting High Fort's mages that someone was on the trail.Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.493
* A Trate Dockhand cared for a drugged Seren Pedac after she and Buruk the Pale returned to Trate. Buruk had drugged Seren Pedac to keep her out of the way while he attended to a personal matter, but paid the wizened old man more than a full year's wage to sit with the Acquitor and keep her safe. The dockhand was married, but had lost his own daughter to a noble in Letheras over debts and never saw her again. As Seren Pedac's strength returned, she released the man to return to his sickly wife. But before he left, he passed on Buruk's warning that she not enter the merchant's house.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.461-462
* Trull Sengar attempted to procure the services of an Arapay healer after the Battle of High Fort. He found the Arapay woman among the healers gathered around Fear Sengar's wounded K'risnan. When she learned that Trull meant to use her talents to tend the Kenyll'rah demon, Lilac, she refused saying it would be better to let it die and summon another one. Trull was so angered by her callousness that he struck her across the face without thinking, knocking her to the ground. The enraged healer promised Empress Mayen would hear of Trull's action and banish him.Midnight Tides, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.557-558
* Hanradi Khalag's Elder Sister was a tall, hawk-faced Merude healer with eyes like onyx. Trull Sengar encountered her looking for her sons on the blood-soaked battlefield after the Battle of High Fort. She agreed to tend the Kenyll'rah demon, Lilac, for Trull despite hearing that he had struck an Arapay healer who had earlier refused (see entry above). Hanradi's sister seemed sympathetic to Trull and was able to save Lilac's life.Midnight Tides, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.558-559
* Two Nerek youths, a dreamer and his knife-brother, were among Buruk the Pale's Indebted servants. They accompanied the merchant and Seren Pedac to the village of the Tiste Edur Warlock King, Hannan Mosag. When war broke out between the Kingdom of Lether and the Edur, their band of Nerek survived the Letherii's sorcerous surprise attack on the village by huddling in ground newly consecrated to their goddess, the Eres'al. Ever since their tribe had been unknowingly betrayed by Hull Beddict conquered by the Letherii, the tribe's dreams had disappeared. But now the dreams had returned to one youth, and with them knowledge of the ways between worlds. The youth and his knife-brother set off on the old paths in search of Hull.Midnight Tides, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.545 They found him in Letheras where he had helped the Edur army conquer his own people. The youths claimed he had been judged for standing with the Edur, his heart poisoned and unable to forgive. They weeped as they stabbed him to death.Midnight Tides, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.724
* Bugg encountered a Letherii artist atop the walls of Letheras as the man painted the approaching Tiste Edur army and navy. The artist was well-known and easily recognised in the capital. He was short and wiry, and had a mass of hair that swept down past his bushy brows to join his wild beard, exposing only his small blue eyes and his nub of a nose. He painted with an agitated capering that often left him standing on one leg. The artist proudly rushed to capture the scene for history, but Bugg noticed he had only covered his canvas with two colours divided roughly by a diagonal line.Midnight Tides, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.694-695 Earlier, Kettle and Tehol Beddict observed a small bedraggled figure watching them from behind a tree at the Azath Tower. Kettle noted that he was an artist who often came to paint the tower. He tried to paint her as well, but she angered him by hiding behind the trees. Later, she considered adding the artist to the victims feeding grounds of the Azath House with their blood.Midnight Tides, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.307-308
==In The Bonehunters==
*Apsalar sought a room and a drink from an Ehrlitan tavern owner. He was a Malazan veteran who had been born near Gris. He had served in the regular infantry under Dassem Ultor, but had missed the Siege of Y'Ghatan while recovering from a spear wound to the back. He immediately recognized Apsalar as Kanese, and warned her that Shadow Dancing was forbidden when the assassin revealed that talent.The Bonehunters, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.40-41/48-49 
*A Semk assassin of the South Clan Semk reached Mebra in Ehrlitan before Apsalar. He wore a tight grey Telaba that exposed only his eyes and the white-etched tattoos that surrounded them. He fought with a Kethra knife and iron throwing stars. After Apsalar dispatched him, she discovered his body was completely covered in tattoos of arcane First Empire script. This and a darkened patch obscuring the tattoed name over his right shoulder-blade led Apsalar to realize she had just killed a priest of the Nameless Ones.The Bonehunters, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.66-67
*Nil's and Nether's Mother was a Wickan ghost that Nil, a Wickan warlock, and Nether, a Wickan witch of the Malazan 14th Army inadvertently encountered. The adolescent brother and sister were ritualistically spiritwalking within Hood's Realm looking for spirits of Wickans who had died on the 'Chain of Dogs', but ran into a "horrific apparition", their mother's spirit. The lich immediately began screaming at them, causing them to flinch, then went on to seize them both, roughly shake them, and throw them to the ground, before suddenly vanishing in clouds of dust. According to Nil, his mother's ghost had been telling the twins to "stop moping and grow up", while Nether added that her mother had told her to "take a husband and get pregnant" ('advice' that Nether was tired of being given).The Bonehunters, Chapter 3, US HC p.117-120
*The Avower was an elderly retired torturer of the Holy Falah'd of Ugarat. He had been assigned the task of standing guard, but had been found asleep by Samar Dev in the corner of a former torture chamber which was located in the crypts of the palace of the Ugarat Falah'd. Samar Dev had gone there to perform an autopsy on the remains of a K'Chain Nah'rukThe Bonehunters, Chapter 5, US HC p.153 which the Teblor, Karsa Orlong, had recently slain in the Moraval Keep just outside the city.The Bonehunters, Chapter 3, US HC p.106-108/109-110 Leaving the Avower to his nap, Samar proceeded with her careful dissection of the corpse. Later, the Avower, suddenly waking up with a hacking cough, made his way over, hunched and twisted with arthritis, to where Samar Dev was working. The Avower, observing what Samar Dev was doing, thought that he recognized her as being the same sort as himself - i.e., that they were both "questioners". When Samar Dev pointed out that she only worked on those already dead, while he had mercilessly tortured the living, the Avower brushed this aside as a mere detail. Thinking that she would surely be interested, the Avower then gave a short discourse concerning the necessities, the justifications and the challenges that he believed were features of the art of torture - Samar Dev listening noncommittally. As Samar Dev finished up her autopsy, the Avower asked her to have dinner with him, but she demurred, saying she could not as she had other work that she needed to be doing. As she was leaving, the Avower wistfully said that he would love to have a chance at 'doing' her guest, Toblakai (aka Karsa Orlong), but Samar Dev felt that that was highly unlikely as well as being a huge mistake to even try.The Bonehunters, Chapter 5, US HC p.154-155
*The Falah'd of Lothal was the Holy Falah'd of Lothal in the period near the end of the Seven Cities rebellion. When Leoman of the Flails, the last leader of the rebellion, had reached Y'Ghatan in his retreat from the Holy Desert of Raraku, he had sent messengers to the Falah'd of Lothal (the closest large city to Y'Ghatan) to inform the Falah'd that Leoman and his warriors had taken over Y'Ghatan and that they would be waiting there for the arrival of the Adjunct Tavore Paran and the Malazan 14th Army.The Bonehunters, Chapter 4, US HC p.149 The Falah'd was also told that Leoman would be evacuating all the inhabitants of Y'Ghatan and sending them to Lothal, and thus, would require that the Falah'd provide troops to escort the Y'Ghatan evacuees along the road to Lothal. The messengers returned with "delighted greetings" from the Falah'd and with word that he would be dispatching the troops to manage the evacuees as requested.The Bonehunters, Chapter 6, US HC p.187 While the Malazans were still at Y'Ghatan, they learned that the virulent plague that was sweeping across Seven Cities had already reached Lothal — as a result, the ultimate fate of the Falah'd of Lothal was unknown.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US HC p.282
*A Geni scholar lived in a solitary tower on the Geni's uninhabited coast. He had purchased the last living ape of Malaz Island and brought it to Geni. Bottle hoped the scholar had been compassionate and introduced the ape to its island cousins rather than turn it into an exotic trophy.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US HC p.290-291
*A half-blooded Wickan cobbler was among the Wickans attacked by a mob in Malaz City as scapegoats for the tragedy of the Chain of Dogs. He had been driven by bricks and clubs nearly into the harbour, losing all the tools of his trade as well as his own shoes in the process. Banaschar paid the broken man to restitch the sole of his left boot knowing the cobbler had no way of producing the repair. The ex-priest assumed the man would use the money to bury his little son, whose skull had been caved-in by the mob.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.707-708
*A Claw Lieutenant was one of a group of four 'Hands' (i.e., units of five Malazan Claw assassins)The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.739 in Malaz City who were given instructions by Pearl, the recently appointed Clawmaster,The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.731 concerning what the duties of these Hands' were to be after the completion of the meeting at Mock's Hold between Adjunct Tavore and the Empress Laseen - the Adjunct having arrived, along with the fleet which had transported the Malazan 14th Army (which was anchored in Malaz Harbour), in Malaz City subsequent to Tavore's forces having dealt with the rebellion in Seven Cities.The Bonehunters, Chapter 22, US HC p.679/681 During the briefing by Pearl, the lieutenant had made what the Clawmaster felt was a highly inappropriate display of humor (the Claw Lieutenant had "chuckled"...which Pearl had felt was only slightly better than an evil snicker would have been). Because of this, Pearl assigned the lieutenant and two Claw Hands the task of herding Tavore, her aide T'amber, and Kalam Mekhar. The goal was for the lieutenant and his assassins to drive Tavore into ambushes by Claws who were stationed along the route to the Harbour.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.739 The Claw Lieutenant and his two Hands, however, quickly ran afoul of Kalam Mekhar and were, one by one, slain by Kalam - the lieutenant being the first one to be killed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.740-741
*Three Wraiths of Shadow, creatures of the Shadow Realm, huddled within Smiley's tavern in Malaz City while Sergeant Hellian and Banaschar were in the tavern, drinking. Hellian observed that the three had their heads together and did not seem to be drinking. Even as Banaschar explained the creatures' nature to Hellian, the three drew their cloaks tight and exited Smiley's by the front door.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.744-745 Presumably they were the same three wraiths who then joined Shadowthrone near the Deadhouse. Upon his orders, they carried the body of a nearly dead individual (spoiler) to the house and deposited it on the Azath's threshold before quickly leaving the area. During the encounter, one of the wraiths briefly spoke in a rasped voice.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US HC p.769-770
*A Claw Apparition was discovered by Apsalar kneeling over his still freshly murdered body in the Mouse Quarter. The Claw had been the last survivor of two Hands that had been slain by Kalam Mekhar. He then witnessed as Pearl vindictively shot Kalam from behind with a quarrel dipped in Kartoolian Paralt spider venom. The use of such a vile poison, especially on another assassin, disgusted the Claw so much that he threw down his weapons and announced that he was done with Pearl. As the man turned away, Pearl shot him in the back with a quarrel smeared with a much faster acting poison, eliminating the only witness as to how dishonourably and despicably he had slain Kalam.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, UK MMPB p.1143/1144 When Apsalar found his corpse not long after, he said he had stayed outside Hood's Gate long enough to give her the quarrel that poisoned Kalam for use in her vengeance on Pearl.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.941-942
*A huge armoured Guardian of the Deadhouse opened the Deadhouse door in response to Shadowthrone's rap on the door. The god and his three wraiths of shadow had left a dying man on the Deadhouse's doorstep before hastily leaving the grounds. The god watched with impatience as the guardian slowly looked down at the body before dragging it inside by the scruff of its neck.The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.954-956
*A Master investigator had come to Kartool City to make an official investigation into the inexplicable overnight massacre and mass dismemberment of all of the priests and priestesses in the Grand Temple of D'rek a year previously. After carefully studying the situation, he went to Charl, the Commander of the Kartool City Guard, to report his conclusions — i.e., that the devotees of D'rek had all died as the result of a "thorough orgy of suicide". Charl, who thought the investigator a pompous ass, said those conclusions were the same as Sergeant Hellian's, which led him to ship her off to the 14th Army. The startled master investigator was then told by the Commander to write up his report and close the investigation.The Bonehunters, Prologue, US HC p.24-25The Bonehunters, Epilogue, US HC p.792-794
==In Reaper's Gale==
*A Merude slave-tracker, five of his fellow Merude, and ten Letherii soldiers captured Udinaas and Kettle near the South Jasp River while the two fugitives stole food from a farm where the slavers had camped. They were escorting two heavily burdened wagons and a column of forty shackled slaves through a pass into the Bluerose Mountains. Silchas Ruin blocked the road ahead of them demanding the return of his companions. The lead Tiste Edur, a veteran of the conquest of Lether, attempted to negotiate a price with Ruin, but was refused. When he drew his sword and called his fellow Edur to assist him, Ruin easily slayed them all. Udinaas strangled a Letherii guard who had sexually assaulted Kettle during their captivity and Ruin veered into his Eleint form to hunt down and kill the others who fled. Udinaas insisted all the slaves be freed.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 1, US HC p.40-46
*A Merude warrior was one of twenty-five spear-wielding Tiste Edur who escorted the K'risnan, Ventrala, to a Letherii fort in the Bluerose Mountains in pursuit of a group of fugitives including Fear Sengar, Udinaas, and Silchas Ruin. They settled into a Letherii fort occupied by the forces of Atri-Preda Hayenar that blocked the pass between Bluerose and Lether. Coming upon the obstacle, Ruin finally tired of the pursuit and attacked the fort. Seeing Ruin cut through her soldiers, Hayenar ordered them to retreat. The furious Merude demanded she countermand her order, saying the K'risnan would soon dispose of "this gnat." If she refused, he said he would kill her himself. It seemed unlikely he or the other Edur survived the battle that followed.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 4, US HC p.103-105
*A Den-Ratha K'risnan and four warlocks joined Overseer Brohl Handar during Atri-Preda Bivatt's Awl Campaign against Redmask and the Awl. He was the son of a Den-Ratha chieftan, whose body had been bent and twisted like all of the Warlock King's Chaos-wielding apprentices. His hunched form resembled a bloated crow, and he kept the ravages of his once-handsome face hidden behind a hood. During the Battle of Bast Fulmar, the K'risnan sat on horseback with the Overseer and the other warlocks near the Letherii camp. Towards the battle's end, the K'ell Hunter, Sag'Churok, launched a surprise attack on the camp, slaughtering many of its defenders. The Overseer, K'risnan, and warlocks rushed to the camp's defense, but the K'Chain Che'Malle leapt over their sorcerous attacks, killing the warlocks and sending the K'risnan to the ground with a glancing blow. The Overseer's horse was killed, toppling him to the ground and leaving him near death. But the bleeding K'risnan dragged himself to Handar's side and used Kurald Emurlahn magic to save the Overseer's life.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12, US HC p.333-336 He was later cut into three pieces by the swords of Sag'Churok at the Battle of Pradegar when the Awl launched an attack on the Letherii camp.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.448/477-478
*The Village Factor near Breeder's Wood was a man with a horsey face. He and a score of villagers were sent to the burning home of Old Hunch Arbat by a visiting troop of Tiste Edur to investigate and extinguish the fire. They did not realise the Tarthenal had set the fires himself before planning to leave the village forever. The Factor was happy to see Arbat alive and questioned whether Vrager was the arsonist. Since Arbat had retired from his refuse collection business, waste had been piling up in the village and the angry mob did not want to see him go. The Factor tried to coax Arbat into staying with talk of lengthy legal proceedings against Vrager, but Arbat clapped him on the shoulder, nearly dropping him to his knees, and continued on his way out of town.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 11, US HC p.274-275
*Yan Tovis' mother was Queen of the Shake until her death a year before the events of Reaper's Gale. She had drowned in the Katter Bight when her boat overturned while crossing from Second Maiden Fort to the mainland. Some said it was caused by a Demon of the deep who had been driven into the bay by dark magic out at sea. With her mother's death, Yan Tovis became the Shake's new queen. Despite not having seen her mother in over a decade, Yan Tovis was stung by grief. Yan Tovis' mother also had an older son, Yedan Derryg, with a man who was not Yan Tovis' father. Yedan fled his home when Yan Tovis was still a toddler because he did not get along with his stepfather.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12, US HC p.324/340
*A Sollanta scout joined Brohl Handar in his search for Redmask's Awl during the Awl Campaign. The Sollanta Tiste Edur was one of the Overseer's thirty best riders. When they could not find the Awl, Handar asked the scout where he believed their enemies were. The scout suspected the Awl were spread out around the Atri-Preda Bivatt's Eastern Army, disguising their numbers by obscuring their trail with wagons. He thought Bivatt's decision not to attempt a reconnaissance in force was wise, arguing that Redmask would slaughter such an expedition. When Handar asked the scout what he thought the Letherii should do next, the scout was initially hesitant to give his opinion. But he eventually stated that the Letherii should abandon the hunt and return to Drene, forcing Redmask to bring the fight to them.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.449-450
*A Drene scout was one of three who accompanied Orbyn Truthfinder and Factor Letur Anict's expedition into the Bluerose Mountains. Ostensibly they were investigating the disappearance of a shipment of illicit weapons the Factor had been transporting through one of the mountains' western passes. The three scouts went ahead and reported on the condition of the Letherii fort guarding the pass, which had been destroyed by Silchas Ruin. When the rest of the expedition continued on to Andara, two of the scouts stayed behind to watch the Factor's carriage. When Venitt Sathad came through the pass, he questioned the scout regarding the Factor's presence. The scout sent Venitt on his way, asking his own pointed questions about Venitt's intentions.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.455/457-458
*A Patriotist mage was one of several who accompanied Orbyn Truthfinder and Factor Letur Anict's expedition into the Bluerose Mountains. Ostensibly they were investigating the disappearance of a shipment of illicit weapons the Factor had been transporting through one of the mountains' western passes. But once in the mountains, Factor Anict convinced Orbyn to take them to Andara, the hidden monastery of the Onyx Wizards, to eliminate the cult and find the fugitive Fear Sengar. The Patriotist mages and the Factor's soldiers made short work of the Tiste Andii, killing them all in less than four hours. The mage reported to Orbyn that they had discovered the six Onyx Wizards praying for aid around an altar of the Black-Winged Lord. After slaying the wizards, the mage was surprised to discover that the altar was truly sanctified to the Hold of Darkness. To Orbyn, he reported his uneasiness at the prospect that Fear Sengar, the White Crow, and the Andii wizards had buried their peoples' longstanding feud and made common cause. Truthfinder ordered him to keep this knowledge secret from the Factor.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.458-460
*The sole Bentract Bonecaster of the Refugium realised her world was dying and sacrificed herself to slow its bleeding.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.659 The Imass Bonecaster sealed the twelve Gates of Starvald Demelain drawing upon the power of stone and earth to seal the breaches. Her body still remained before the tower as a cairn of stones roughly in the shape of an Imass.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 23, US HC p.714-715Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, US SFBC p.484 Such was her pain and anguish that it was felt by the T'lan Imass, Hostille Rator, Gr'istanas Ish'Ilm, and Til'Aras Benok, who delayed their journey to the Second Gathering to investigate.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.659 Silchas Ruin and Clip discovered her desiccated corpse on the other side of the Gate of Starvald Demelain before passing into the Refugium.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 23, US HC p.724 It was later revealed her sacrifice had not been successful because she was no more real than the other residents of the Refugium. Her faded soul had had barely enough power to hold onto itself.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 23, US HC p.726
*The Imperial Brigade Commander was a Preda veteran leading the Imperial Brigade in the defence of Letheras against Adjunct Tavore Paran's Bonehunters.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.616Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.693 He gathered his forces atop Kravos Hill outside the walls of the capital, along with Hanradi Khalag' Tiste Edur, to await the enemy. Sirryn Kanar delivered orders from Chancellor Triban Gnol to send Hanradi and his Edur around behind the Malazans to push them to where the Letherii commander awaited. Kanar's secret orders to the Preda also made it clear that the Edur were expendable.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.615-616 Once the eight hundred surviving Marines appeared below his lines, the commander's mages sent a wave of lethal magic down upon them and the Edur alike. Beak dispersed the wave to save both Malazans and Edur, while the wave's aftereffects killed the mages who summoned it and knocked the commander and his staff to the ground. Reports then reached the commander of Adjunct Tavore's main force approaching from downriver. Eager to fight an honourable battle with sword and shield instead of magic, the commander gathered his forces to meet the greater threat.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.686-694 He perished with a quarrel in his heart only 400 paces from the river even as Moranth munitions shattered his forces and sent them into a panicked rout.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.748-749
*A Letherii deserter was a young soldier attempting to escape Letheras from one of the city's many postern gates during the Malazan invasion when he heard Sirryn Kanar banging on the outside of the door to be let in. Once inside, the Finadd threatened the soldier for naively accepting his story and sought to blackmail him for sexual favours. The soldier stopped the Finadd in his tracks by holding a knife to his eye before admitting he was deserting the city. The capital was in mayhem with citizens rioting, the Tiste Edur missing, and only the Eternal Domicile, gatehouses, and walls under the city guards' control. The deserter slipped out the postern door only to be captured by Smiles, Koryk, and Tarr. He willingly gave up information about the gates and walls to spare his own life. The Malazans let him go after he showed them the door through which he had escaped.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.750-751/778
*A Letherii barkeep found his establishment invaded by Hellian's 8th squad during the Bonehunters' attack on Letheras. He was a laconic man with a thin, overlong face and a dim view of the foreigners in his bar. He peppered Hellian with insults and refused to honour the sergeant's coin saying he ran a dry bar. An angry Hellian attempted to threaten him with Brethless or Touchy's sword, but only succeeded in cutting her own ear. When she ordered the barkeep strung up from a beam, he quickly changed his tune and revealed his stock was in the cellar.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.794-795
==In Toll the Hounds==
*A pair of dog walkers - see Dog walkers for details.
*Karsa Orlong's daughters - See Delas Fana and Tonith Agra pages for details.
*Gran was what Scorch called his late grandmother. She, along with other old women living in poverty in Darujhistan, would wait under the city's inner docks along Lake Azur for when the morning fishing boats returned to land. As the boats unloaded their baskets filled with the day's catch of sliverfish, Gran and the others used "long, thin, barbed pokers" to spear any of the smaller fish that managed to fall between the gaps in the piers. If the harvest to the old women gathered below was small, they were wont to use their barbed pokers on each other. Thus, Gran collected multiple wounds on her scrawny arms. Because of the injuries that Gran had accumulated, Scorch had sworn to never eat anything that was caught in Lake Azur.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US TPB p.73-74
*Humble Measure's loyal servant was the only man who knew of Humble Measure's secret office beneath the Eldra Iron Mongers complex and the only one to know the full scope of his master plan for Darujhistan. He was likely one of the servants who survived the family's expulsion from One Eye Cat. The servant brought word of the Assassins' Guild's failed attacks on the Bridgeburners via a small wax book.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.97-99
*A Priest of the Dying God welcomed Nimander Golit, Clip, and the rest of their Tiste Andii company to Morsko. He had pale skin, pale blue eyes, a lined face, and long grey hair which was unkempt and tangled. He wore a tattered burgundy robe and both his almost comically oversized hands and bare feet were stained black from Saemankelyk.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.125 Smiling and whirling like a fool, he spoke a broken version of the Andii language as he told them how the Dying God brought a new age of wealth and trade to the settlements of the former Pannion Domin. After finding them rooms at the inn, he offered them Saemankelyk to drink and invited them to observe the cult's rituals.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.125-127 After Clip succumbed to the ritual, the priest and his fellows disappeared.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.202-211
*The High Priestess of Kharkanas sent the young acolyte, Endest Silann, to Suruth Common Forest to observe a meeting between Anomander Rake, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin in the ancient days of the Tiste Andii civil war. His modest rank had been a sign of the High Priestess' contempt for the participants, but the three were among the few not trying to kill each other. Endest had expected the High Priestess to be outraged by their planned betrayal, but she merely turned away.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.459-462 The next time Endest saw Rake, the Citadel had been strewn with bodies from the various Tiste Andii factions. As the acolyte guided Rake to the chamber of Mother Dark, he could hear the High Priestess shrieking in the nave of the Temple. Rake's meeting led to Mother Dark forsaking him and turning away from her people.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US SFBC p.131-135 Endest later recalled holding the hand of a dying High Priestess, sharing the knowledge that Mother Dark no longer awaited her beyond death.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.950 It was not revealed whether this High Priestess was Emral Lanear from the Kharkanas Trilogy.
*The High Priestess of Treach was a tiger-skinned woman who proclaimed herself High Priestess of Treach's temple in Darujhistan. She was desperate for the attention of Gruntle, her god's Mortal Sword and fellow city resident, and frequently sent her acolytes to pester him at the hovel he called home. When Gruntle returned home after his caravan was ambushed on the Dwelling Plain, he was sure the High Priestess would be awaiting him in a frenzy because she would have heard his battle cry despite the fact the fighting had been thirty leagues from the city.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.91-92Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.255
*High Priestess of Darkness - See High Priestess of Darkness (Black Coral) for details.
*Witch-Priestess of the Redeemer was an "ancient, immensely obese" human woman with eyes cloudy with cataracts,Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US TPB p.114-116 who struggled to walk with the aid of two canes because of her growing physical infirmities.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US TPB p.530-533 She lived in the Redeemer's temple in Black Coral, where she was tended by a young girl.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US TPB p.114-116 The temple, which was found behind a door gouged with the rough outline of the Barrow of the Redeemer above an imprint of an open hand, featured an altar heaped with trinkets.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US TPB p.114-116 The witch-priestess recognised the "natural authority" of the Redeemer's young High Priestess, Salind, who lived in the nearby Pilgrim camp.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US TPB p.530-533 Spinnock Durav, who had once met the witch in the city's ruins while she was collecting wood, consulted with her regarding a troubled Seerdomin to learn if there was a crisis among the faithful.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US TPB p.114-116 Later, she appeared before the High Priestess of Darkness ostensibly to warn of the encroaching new Cult of the Dying God and the deadly threat of Saemankelyk to the Tiste Andii. But what she really wanted was for Spinnock Durav to save the life of her friend, Salind, since she had lost faith that the Redeemer would intervene. Recognising the witch had sacrificed what little health she still possessed in making the trip to the Temple of Darkness and knowing she would not survive the return trip, the High Priestess completely healed her with the power of Kurald Galain without her permission. Then the High Priestess refused the witch's request, saying the Tiste Andii were already aware of Salind's situation and it was their assessment she did not yet need their help.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US TPB p.530-533
*Guard with a failing heart, a Darujhistan city guardsman of twenty years' service - see Guard with a failing heart for details.
*Gareb's bulbous-nosed guard maintained watch of Gareb's office and bedroom from a chair facing the house's central staircase. He had black hair, a red, bulbous nose, a protruding lower lip, and an immensely muscled frame. He whiled away his time on watch by knitting. When Torvald Nom invaded Gareb's house in the middle of the night to search for valuables, he was momentarily halted by the knitting guard. But a cat that had followed Nom into the house lured the guard away by seizing his thread. Nom used the distraction to enter Gareb's office and bedroom. After an amorous encounter with Gareb's wife, he returned the way he came, coming upon the guard from behind. As the guard knitted, Nom knocked him unconscious with the butt of his dagger.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.149/151
*An Amber-eyed cat curiously followed Torvald Nom into the upper window of Gareb's estate when the thief invaded in the middle of the night to search for valuables. Nom first thought to stomp on the cat to keep it from derailing his efforts, but ultimately came to believe its eyes and ears might prove a boon. Inside the house, he found a bulbous-nosed guard sitting in a chair knitting and blocking the way to Gareb's office and bedroom. While trying to determine what to do next, Nom was horrified to watch the cat run straight for the guard. When the cat lured the guard away by seizing his thread, Nom was ready to sing its praises.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.146-149 Note: Per Steven Erikson, the reappearance of the cat in the hallway after Torvald Nom's amorous encounter with Gareb's wife is a nod to Ernest Hemingway's short story, Cat in the Rain and is intended to reference a subtext of seduction.Critical Conversations 10: Humour, Sex, and Power Dynamics in Toll the Hounds Chapter Five - A Critical Dragon - See 40:00
*High Priest of Burn - See High Priest of Burn (Darujhistan) for details. 
*The soul of a Jade-eyed Demon was conjured and bound by Baruk in his home in Darujhistan. The High Alchemist told Crone the soul's physical human body still remained in the realm of the Crippled God's birthplace. He was only able to capture the soul because it had nearly left its physical body during a heightened meditative state to seek out its missing god. Its heart beat no more than ten times a minute, reflected by the pulsing of the soul's crackling filaments. It seemed to recoil in agony from ferocious fires of pain. Baruk promised to send it home soon.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.182-183 
*A Pilgrim spokesman was among the first to make their home in the Pilgrim camp surrounding the Barrow of the Redeemer. He was a wiry middle-aged man wearing little more than rags who had once been a wealthy merchant in Capustan before fleeing the advancing army of the Pannion Domin. As a refugee at Saltoan, he had witnessed the city's overnight expulsion of the Pannion Domin's agents. After the Tiste Andii occupation of Black Coral, he served as a representative for the pilgrims of the camp and all of his wealth joined the treasure that formed the barrow. When Seerdomin refused to serve as protector of the camp, Gradithan and his thugs began to prey on the defenceless pilgrims. The former merchant led a group of pilgrims begging Salind, the High Priestess of the Redeemer, to demand Seerdomin change his mind. Once the group found Seerdomin at Scour Tavern, the spokesman and his fellows fled while Salind pled their case.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.215-220
*A Kindaru father and his son were among the last of their horse-worshipping people living in a small clan of a half-dozen tipis on the Lamatath Plain. When Traveller passed near the camp on his way to Darujhistan, the two Kindaru warily greeted him with a ritualistic welcome that outlined the behaviour necessary for the encounter to conclude peacefully. Traveller agreed to their terms and was treated with a meal and a place to sleep. The next morning, the man brought Traveller to a site where thirty rival Skathandi raiders had been killed by what the man referred to as a raging demon. After allowing Traveller to take one of the fallen raiders' horses for his own, they were interrupted by the appearance of Samar Dev atop Havok. The Kindaru man raced back to camp, exclaiming that they were blessed by the presence of a Jhag'athend--the Jhag horse. Samar Dev was in search of Karsa Orlong, the Kindaru's "demon".Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.229-234
*An Old shepherd lived in a shack with his sickly wife outside the western gate of Darujhistan. His wife had been worn out by seven failed pregnancies and was filled with spite for the world. While tending goats on a hill overlooking Maiten, the shepherd found the boy Harllo after he had been beaten and left for dead by his adoptive brother Snell.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.257-258/279-280 Poor, his eyes smeared with cataracts, and nearly too old to work, the shepherd saw the boy as an opportunity.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.229Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.685 He sold the still unconscious boy to the Chuffs labour camp to work in the Eldra Iron Mongers mine.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 7, US TPB p.229 When Murillio came looking for the boy, the shepherd, holding his newly purchased crook, tried to justify his actions (as much to himself, probably, as to Murillio).Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US TPB p.561
*A Fourth Troop rider was the ablest rider serving under the command of Troop Leader Uludan in the army of the Skathandi tyrant known as The Captain. While on patrol on the Lamatath Plain, the Fourth Troop discovered the bodies of two of the Captain's raiding groups who had been slaughtered to a man in ambush. Unable to find a trail, Uludan sent his best rider to report back to the Captain. The rider told the Captain the perpetrators of the ambush must have had sorcerous help to cover their tracks so effectively, but admitted under interrogation that this was his own opinion and not his commander's. The Captain planned to send twenty of his knights back to the ambush site with the rider to find the culprits or punish Uludan if they failed.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.288-289 
*A Clerk at the entry of the Darujhistan office of the Guild of Blacksmiths had the responsibility of handling the administrative regulations of the Guild. He had watery eyes, small pursed lips turned down at the ends, and pale hands that held a wooden stylus whose tip was stained blue by ink and wax. He had no actual working experience as a smith, but gloried in his power over true craftsmen. As the clerk dealt with those applying for membership in the Guild, he took a great deal of pleasure from the power he held over Barathol Mekhar, an experienced blacksmith, who wished to join after newly arriving in Darujhistan. Awoken from a nap, the clerk informed Barathol he was ineligible to join the Guild because of its strict rules against outsiders. As the clerk spelled out the necessary criteria for membership, Barathol recognised that the organisation was essentially a 'closed shop'. The clerk made clear Barathol would have to have the sponsorship of an accredited Blacksmiths' Guild member, but that to be eligible for such sponsorship, he would first have to have completed an apprenticeship in Darujhistan--which was impossible because, by the rules, he was overqualified, being already too old and experienced to be apprenticed.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US TPB p.281-283
*The Varada foreman was in charge of the construction crew rehabilitating an estate for the mysterious Lady Varada, newly arrived to Darujhistan. He was a grizzled old Gadrobi so bowlegged he looked to be wading hip-deep in mud when he walked. He found Scorch and Leff at the estate's gate looking for work as guards and brought them to the attention of Studlock, the estate's castellan. Studlock immediately hired the dubious duo and sent Scorch off to recruit two or three others. The foreman smirked at the request, as if he knew more about why they had been hired than he let on.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.346-349
*Eldra Iron Mine foreman, camp workmaster of an Eldra Iron Mongers mining operation - see Eldra Iron Mine foreman for details.
*Sweetest Sufferance's grandfather had told her as a child, that he had been a warrior in the Revenants. According to his stories, he had lost an arm in a battle and been left for dead. By the time he was found it was too late for healing and he had been retired from the unit. He later lived in One Eye Cat where he had broken masks on his walls. He once took Sweetest Sufferance to a Dawn of Flies ceremony at the local temple of his company’s patron, Hood.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, UK HB p.462
*A tribe of Half-humans encountered in Gruntle's dream - see Half-humans for details.
*A Leopard dream-rider was encountered by Gruntle when he travelled to another world or time in his sleep. In the dream, Gruntle rode the mind of a tiger stalking the jungle. The tiger came upon a band of pitiable creatures who seemed to be something between apes and humans and by recognising their taste Gruntle knew the tiger had hunted them before. One of the women called on him to protect them from a leopard who took their children and who challenged the tiger's claim on this territory. She offered herself up as sacrifice, causing Gruntle to spare them. Eventually, he found the leopard, realising she was a dream-rider like himself. She claimed to be from a place known as New Morn, although her failure to recognise the god, Hood, left open the question whether she was from the distant past or the far future. After Gruntle requested she spare the jungle's human inhabitants, the two went their separate ways.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.515-520
*A Rhivi server worked at an upscale half-courtyard restaurant facing Borthen Park in Darujhistan. Like the three other young Rhivi women who worked there, she wore "some new obscure fashion characterized by long swishing skirts of linen streaked in indigo dye, and tight black leather vests with nothing underneath. Their hair was bound up in knotted braids, revealing bisected clam-shells stitched over their ears." Cutter found his modest attire did little to encourage her to be attentive or courteous when he ordered breakfast. When Cutter took too long to begin eating his food, she cuffed him on the side of the head complaining that if she made him breakfast, he better eat it. Her own daily breakfasts consisted of flatcakes served with beer.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.540-543
*Second Sister, Third Sister, and Sixth Sister were among the half-dozenToll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.646 highest ranking Tiste Andii Priestesses after the High Priestess of Darkness of the Temple of Darkness in the city of Black Coral. These six Priestesses functioned as an 'Executive Committee' (so to speak) of the High Priestess - Second Sister and Third Sister, in particular, being the most important members of this inner circle.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US TPB p.530-531 As part of the Tiste Andii rituals of worship, they engaged in sexual congress with the Priests of Darkness to gain access to Kurald Galain.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 4, US TPB p.112-113Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US TPB p.248 When the Witch-Priestess of the Redeemer appeared at the temple to discuss the corruption of the Redeemer Pilgrim camp by Gradithan and his Saemankelyk, the High Priestess asked only Second Sister and Third Sister to remain while releasing the others. Even these confidantes were removed from the conversation when the topic turned to the High Priestess' lover, Spinnock Durav.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US TPB p.530-531 Sixth Sister was known to conceal a flask (presumably bearing alcohol) on her person.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.647 
*A Guild of Blacksmiths official was an imposing woman who finally ended Barathol Mekhar's flouting of the Guild of Blacksmiths. She brought a City Watch officer and his squad to arrest Barathol and Chaur for using the incorrect drain for the disposal of waste. Scillara witnessed the arrest and, when she saw the official's self-satisfied smirk, sharply pulled a braid of the woman's hair. She apologised, explaining the braid must have caught on her bracelet, before the official noticed she was not wearing one. Scillara slipped away as the official demanded her arrest.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.693-694
*City Watch officer was brought with his squad to Barathol Mekhar's smithy by a Guild of Blacksmiths official. The woman had Barathol and Chaur arrested for using the incorrect drain for waste disposal in clear violation of city law and Guild practice. Looking embarassed, the officer took both men into custody without chains. On the way to the gaol, Chaur panicked and attacked the guards. The officer was knocked unconscious by a blow to the head with an amphora and the two smiths escaped.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.693-697
*The Temple Historian of the Temple of Darkness in Black Coral - see Temple Historian for details.
==In Dust of Dreams==
*Sinn had a Tanno tutor, a Tanno Spiritwalker, when she was younger, who once told her that "an untethered soul can drown in wisdom" - a remark that Sinn shared with Grub.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 7, US HC p.239
*The Akrynnai Emissary was a representative of the Akrynnai to the Letherii Court in Letheras, the capital city of the Letherii Empire, between King Tehol of the Letherii and Irkullas, the Sceptre of the Akrynnai. The Emissary, a very large man wearing a cloak of wolf-skin and a "fierce" scowl, met with King Tehol, Queen Janath and Chancellor Bugg in the palace throne room. The two sides discussed the traditional - also traditionally useless - gifts exchanged between the Letherii and the Akrynnai leaders. The Emissary then proceeded to the important topics that he wished to discuss - which mainly dealt with the details of hostilities that had recently broken out among various powers and nations that were located in the center of the Lether continent. The Emissary conveyed Sceptre Irkullas' interest in whether or not the Letherii were prepared to assist the Akrynnai and their allies in the escalating war - he was informed by King Tehol that they were not interested in doing so; or at least for assurance that the Letherii would refrain from taking advantage of the worsening situation in order to attack/invade Akrynnai territory - King Tehol was able to reassure the Emissary that the Letherii and their allies would certainly not do so. These issues settled to the Emissary's satisfaction, he took his leave of the Letherii Court. The Emissary was, however, left bemused by the extremely generous, and eminently useful, Letherii gift that he was to take back to Sceptre Irkullas.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 11, US HC p.331-335
*Hethry's brother was mentioned by Queen Abrastal of Bolkando immediately before the parley of the Queen with Warleader Gall of the Khundryl Burned Tears. Hethry's brother was presumably a son of the Bolkando Queen (and King) since Hethry was the third daughter of Queen Abrastal and King Tarkulf of the Bolkando Kingdom. Queen Abrastal, irritated by comments made to her by her daughter, testily told Hethry to "go play with your brother, and tell me nothing about what you get up to with him. I’d like to keep my food down for a change."Dust of Dreams, Chapter 14, UK HB p.469
*Abrastal's uncle, a Prince of Bolkando, was important to Queen Abrastal - not for who he had been, nor for what he had done - but, rather, for what had happened to him. The Prince had been the victim of a complex concatenation of events - each event unimportant enough in itself - which resulted in his completely unforeseeable death. The account of Abrastal's uncle's death became a well-known story in the Bolkando royal family. Felash utilized tangential references to this story of her great-uncle's fate in order to successfully communicate a magical warning to her faraway mother.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 23, US HC p.748-750
==In The Crippled God==
* High Priestess of Darkness [refer to the "Unnamed characters" section for Toll the Hounds above]
* A Bored boy of Malaz City was the final character to be introduced in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. He spent his days at the Malaz City pier observing the ships in the harbour dreaming of an exciting life in other lands amongst heroes and villains. One day, he approached a peculiar old man he often saw fishing at the pier to warn him it was too late in the day to catch anything and he was wasting his time. The boy was familiar with all of the district's bars and taverns, so he knew the man was lying when he claimed to spend his nights performing at Smiley's, a haunt that existed only in legend. When the man claimed to be casting not for fish but for the old Emperor's demon, the boy scoffed and claimed he would one day leave the island and become a soldier. The fisherman responded, "Well, the world always needs more soldiers."The Crippled God, Epilogue II, US HC p.906-908
==In Night of Knives==
*Fisherman's wife was an old woman who lived in a hut on Malaz Island with her husband, a powerful mage.Night of Knives, Chapter 2, US TPB p.47 She sang to him while he defended Malaz City against the Stormriders with powerful magic. When he died, she instantly froze to death in their home.Night of Knives, Chapter 4, US TPB p.147
*Kiska's mother was a seamstress living in the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City. Her husband had been a sailor who died at sea. Kiska had ignored her mother's wishes for most of her childhood and was more likely to heed the advice of the witch Agayla. Kiska's mother was a devotee of Chem, a Malaz cult of Mael.Night of Knives, Chapter 2, US TPB p.51Night of Knives, Chapter 5, US TPB p.200
*A Shadow cult assassin in Malaz City secretly followed a disguised Tayschrenn to a meeting with the Shadow scholar Oleg Vikat during the night of the Shadow Moon of 1154 BS. Once Tayschrenn departed, the assassin murdered Oleg and attempted to kill the young witness Kiska. Kiska survived only due to the intervention of Oleg's spirit.Night of Knives, Chapter 2, US TPB p.55/67 Later in the night, the assassin was assigned to escort Temper to Mock's Hold by the cult's leader, Pralt. He was young and walked with a cocky swagger that made Temper want to slap him. He had blond hair and a beard and his hood and robes were marred by scorch marks from Oleg's spell.Night of Knives, Chapter 4, US TPB p.160Night of Knives, Chapter 5, US TPB p.212 The arrogant cultist challenged Temper to a fight. He lost.Night of Knives, Chapter 5, US TPB p.212
*Ash's sergeant was a veteran serving on the ex-Bridgeburner lieutenant's team in Malaz City. He had a long, thin mustache and a nose made of scar tissue and wore a leather hauberk with iron lozenges and a plain blackened iron helmet.Night of Knives, Chapter 3, US TPB p.114 He captured Kiska thinking she was a Shadow cultist.Night of Knives, Chapter 3, US TPB p.112 He perished attempting to bring back the old empire by assaulting Laseen's Claws at Mock's Hold.Night of Knives, Chapter 4, US TPB p.180
*A Grandfather from Pyre was brought down to the beach by his grandchildren to see a ghost they had found in the surf. In reality it was a dying Stormrider, which he was shocked to hear speak to him in stilted Korelean, a language the old man had learned from his own grandfather. The man stopped the Stormrider's curious question "Why are you killing us?" by slitting its throat.Night of Knives, Epilogue, US TPB p.282
==In Return of the Crimson Guard==
*Greymane's father was a fisherman on Geni. He was slain by Stormriders causing his son to forswear the sea and join the Malazan Military.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1, Chapter 2, UK PB p.88
*A head spiked upon a wall in Unta warned Clawmaster Possum that, "They are returning. The death-cheaters. The defiers. All the withholders and arrogators." It claimed to be a former Untan official who broke its neck in a carriage accident attempting to escape with the city's treasury when Kellanved's fleet appeared in the harbour.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 2, UK PB p.31-33
==In Stonewielder==
*An orphaned Jourilan boy was rescued by Ivanr from the site of a religious massacre in southern Jourilan. The boy was covered in blood and seemingly mute.Stonewielder, Chapter 2, US HC p.105 When he finally was able to talk again, the boy asked if he was evil. His father had claimed the boy was before murdering his mother and siblings in the name of the Lady. Ivanr assured him he was not before leaving the boy with the peasants of the Jourilan Army of Reform.Stonewielder, Chapter 3, US HC p.148-150 Ivanr later attempted to find the boy again, but was unsuccessful until the defeat of the Jourilan imperial army at Ring. There he discovered the boy sadistically murdering imperial prisoners. When Ivanr tried to stop him, the boy shot an arrow into Ivanr's chest. The crowd then tore the boy to pieces.Stonewielder, Chapter 11, US HC p.553-554
==In Orb Sceptre Throne==
*A Toothless old hag was the camp cook of Scholar Ebbin during his activities on the Dwelling Plain south of Darujhistan. She (and two youths) were of the "older tribal stock from the surrounding steppes" - i.e., the Gadrobi. The old woman got up early in the morning to prepare weak tea and "mealy porridge" for the five people at the camp.Orb Sceptre Throne, Prologue, US TPB p.17 When five additional men were added to the group at Ebbin's camp, the old hag became more sullen than before as she had to cook for the extra men. That day at noon, the old woman, having received dire omens from sand and smoke readings, limped up to the guards, Leff and Scorch, and spat out, "You go! Bad things come..." When the two did not take her warning seriously, the hag waved an angry dismissal and told them to "die then" - after which she then scuttled off with the two Gadrobi youths.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 3, US TPB p.95/102 Days later - in the absence of Ebbin and of all of the others - Leff and Scorch realized that they were out of supplies, especially water, as the "Gadrobi hag" and the two lads had stolen "everything they could carry" before they had then precipitously abandoned the camp.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 5, US TPB p.159 
*Two Children entrepreneurs, a boy and a girl - finding Antsy asleep on the shore of the Rivan Sea, just south of Hurly - awakened him and tried to sell him some supplies that they thought he might buy if he was going out to the islets (i.e., the 'Spawns') that were all that remained of Moon's Spawn. The kids had for sale: fish, one crescent coin each; water with vinegar added - to make it safe to drink; or even a map of the Spawns - which the boy assured Antsy that, even if he couldn't read, that the "map's still good". The amused Antsy was so taken by the "lad's salesmanship", that he thought that if he had had any coins to spare, that he would have been inclined to purchase what the children were trying to sell.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 2, US TPB p.83-84 As Antsy later discovered, these two children were amongst the survivors of the tidal wave that had demolished Hurly when Moon's Spawn had crashed into the sea just offshore of that community.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 2, US TPB p.87 
 
*The Lord Mayor of Pale, a portly man with a beard, was the civilian leader of the ex-free city of Pale, Genabackis - which was occupied by a garrison of the Malazan 5th Army under Fist K'ess. The Lord Mayor was contacted by the shade of Hinter, who was an official representative of the newly-installed Legate of Darujhistan. Hinter told the Lord Mayor that the Legate demanded that the authorities and inhabitants of Pale recognize the overall supremacy of the Legate - in exchange for "Darujhistan's enlightened guidance and protection".Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 6, US TPB p.182-183 The Lord Mayor decided to side with the Legate instead of with the occupying Malazan force and, following the recommendations of Hinter, caused Fist K'ess and his Malazans to decamp en masse from Pale - resulting in a great deal of destruction and uproar in the process. After the Malazans had departed, Hinter then left the Lord Mayor to cope with the ensuing chaos and lack of protection without any further "help" from the Legate or from Darujhistan.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 7, US TPB p.217-218
*A Military intelligence officer was was a member of Ambassador Aragan's Imperial Delegation which had been assigned to Darujhistan. The young officer belonged to the Malazan army's Military Intelligence section. He was tall and rangy with long black, wavy hair and he was wearing an old travelling cloak. The intelligence officer approached Spindle as the ex-Bridgeburner sat on a bench in the Daru District waiting for one of Aragan's cadre mages so as to deliver a report of some reconnaissance that he had undertaken for the Malazans. The officer told Spindle that the cadre mages were no longer available and he listened to Spindle's report in their stead. After debriefing Spindle, the officer gave him a follow-up assignment that Spindle reluctantly accepted.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 6, US TPB p.199-201 
*The Way of Justice clerk in Darujhistan, Genabackis, was stationed at the gate located between the 'Second Tier Way' and the 'Way of Justice' on the route which wound up Majesty Hill to Majesty Hall. The clerk, his arms full of important scrolls, heard the sound of many people marching coming towards the gate. The clerk, in absolute amazement, then observed five hundred Seguleh - by his own count - passing through the gate on their way upward. After all of the Seguleh had jogged past him, the clerk realized - much to his despair - that he was no longer holding any scrolls and that, in his distraction, he had released his hold upon them, allowing the documents to blow irrecoverably into Lake Azur far below.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 12, US TPB p.363
*An Imprisoned Spy, an older, overweight, retired city guardsman, had been caught "conspiring to bring down the rule of the Legate" of Darujhistan. The ex-guardsman had been duly convicted of this charge - which he freely admitted to be guilty of and that he would do the same again if he could. The spy went on to state that he strongly felt that Darujhistan should be free to govern itself without "coercion or command" from a tyrannical ruler like the Legate. By the order of the Legate, the ex-guardsman was executed by one of the Seguleh who had become "Servants to the Throne" upon their arrival in Darujhistan from their home island in southern Genabackis. The actual executioner was Jan, the Seguleh Second, who took it upon himself to be the one to bear the onus of becoming - what he considered - the murderer of the imprisoned spy. Although Jan gave the prisoner a very quick death, he knew that he would be haunted by guilt for this action.Orb Sceptre Throne, Chapter 16, US TPB p.452-455
==In Blood and Bone==
*A Feral Shade grabbed Saeng's arm and tried to pull her down into the ground, saying "The High King will be well pleased with you". The shade was dispersed when Hanu swung a stick through it.Blood and Bone, Prologue, UK MMPB p.19-20 
*A Priestess' Shade spoke to Saeng about the worship of Light. The shade said she had been drowned at the orders of the 'High King' because she had been a priestess of the old faith, the worship of Light. The shade told Saeng that the old faith ran in her blood and that Saeng's trial was coming and that she would have to make a choice.Blood and Bone, Prologue, UK MMPB p.20-23 
*A Thaumaturg theurgist came to Saeng's village for 'The Choosing'. He was dressed in rich silks of sea blue and gold, and was described as somewhat overweight and short. He chose Hanu to be taken away.Blood and Bone, Prologue, UK MMPB p.23-25 
*A Priest of the Crippled God traveled with the Disavowed accompanying the Army of Righteous Chastisement. He was old, with tattered robes that smelled of filth.Blood and Bone, Chapter 1, UK MMPB p.77 He had a hopping, jerking walk. Using the Warren of Chaos, he took Skinner, Mara, and Petal to the Dolmens of Tien;Blood and Bone, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.163-164 the ruined Meckros city of Ambajenad;Blood and Bone, Chapter 5, UK MMPB p.257-276 a spot near the party of Malazan mercenaries, who he tracked via the signature of the shard they carried;Blood and Bone, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.544-546 into the Realm of Shadow;Blood and Bone, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.549-552 and to the Sky Tower of the Stormguard.Blood and Bone, Chapter 14, UK MMPB p.744 At the end of all this, Skinner snapped the priest's neck, killing him.Blood and Bone, Chapter 14, UK MMPB p.755
*A Shaduwam Agon entered the camp and interrupted the meeting between the The Warleader and the Adwami tribal representatives, warning them that they would face many Thaumaturgs in the capital city of Isana Pura. He was dressed in rags, his torso was smeared in dirt, and ash coated his face. He carried a begging bowl made from a human skull. He demanded one fourth of all captives taken as the price for his assistance.Blood and Bone, Chapter 1, UK MMPB p.86-88 Prince Jatal and Scarza later found a Agon shrine cursing the tribes, a ritual presumably performed by the same Shaduwam.Blood and Bone, Chapter 1, UK MMPB p.92-93 
*A Half-Man Beast attacked the Thaumaturg Army of Righteous Chastisement early into their journey. Golan sent Skinner, Mara, Black the Lesser, and Shijel to track it down and kill it. They followed it to its lair, where Mara briefly saw it, describing it as having "a glistening armoured torso like that of a lizard, sleek furred arms ending in long talons, and a humanoid face distorted by an oversized mouth of needle-like teeth". It prophesized that Himatan would swallow Skinner before Skinner impaled it and then threw it into a pit of insects where the body was devoured instantly.Blood and Bone, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.96-104 
*A Prince of Anklos kept an old man to entertain his court in the northern Genabackis city of Anklos. This man had a "freak talent" that enabled him to be able to give the day's date in any calendrical system specified. This 'idiot savant-like' talent of the old man came to the mind of the mage, Murk, when he was wondering about the oddly complex magical talents displayed by his fellow mage, Sour - who Murk thought was mentally slow.Blood and Bone, Chapter 3, US HC p.112
*An Artorallah demon was present in the 'Forest of the Azathanai' when Murk first met Celeste. The demon told Murk that he would be imprisoned in the forest forever, and that Murk could not escape. The demon was shocked when Celeste was able to throw Murk and the demon back, thereby freeing Murk.Blood and Bone, Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.219-220 
* A Nacht Guardian was present in the Deadhouse of Malaz City with Gothos and Osserc. Osserc described its head as "brown and knobby, shaped rather like the stone ammunition of an onager."Blood and Bone, Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.246 and "of roughly the same size and hairiness as a coconut."Blood and Bone, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.397 Osserc suspected it of being a demon. It appeared to serve the Azath House. After Cowl escaped, Osserc heard the Nacht muttering and saw it heading down a hallway dragging a shovel. Losing sight of the Nacht, Osserc heard the front door of the Deadhouse open and slam shut.Blood and Bone, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.590-591 The Nacht also swept - sometimes striking Osserc while doing so - and performed other housecleaning jobs, such as sweeping cobwebs from the ceiling or dusting.Blood and Bone, Chapter 13, UK MMPB p.732-734 
*A Priest in Rags was seen as a ghost by Pon-lor. The ghostly priest led a procession of children and a goat to an altar. The children and priest were all thin and emaciated, and the priest's feathered robes were soiled. All showed signs of the 'Weeping Pestilence'. The priest sacrificed both a five year old boy, and the goat with a curved blade. The goat's blood was drained into a bowl that the remaining children drank from hungrily. The ghostly priest then chopped off the head of the goat and placed it on the altar and left, carrying the body of the boy away with him.Blood and Bone, Chapter 7, UK MMPB p.389-391 
*A Cursed Thaumaturg met Saeng and Hanu on an enormous stone bridge. He was dressed in rags, and had wild hair as well as a wind and sun darkened face. The Thaumaturg was wrinkled and had a maniac look. Hanu told Saeng that the man had been cursed by the other Thaumaturgs as punishment, making him somewhat insane. He led them to a village of Himatan natives who were preparing a banquet. Saeng realized at the banquet that the Thaumaturg and villagers were all ghosts. Saeng noticed that the green 'Banner' was unusually bright - the Thaumaturg told her that it would impact soon. When the Banner began to crash into Jacuruku, Saeng asked how she could stop it, to which the Thaumaturg replied, "I do not know what you must do, High Priestess. I can only say that you must not despair. What rises must fall only to rise again. What has gone shall come again. It is the way of the world."Blood and Bone, Chapter 8, UK MMPB p.461-468 
*The Ranking Surgeon of the Army of Righteous Chastisement guided Golan to see the sick U-Pre and a young man sick with a virulent parasitic worm infection. The surgeon was described as being tall and lean, wearing a leather apron wet with gore. He also wore a belt of surgical tools such as knives, probes, awls, chisels, and saws. When Golan spoke with him to be directed to U-Pre, the surgeon was very tired with dark circles around his eyes.Blood and Bone, Chapter 9, UK MMPB p.484 When the surgeon led Golan to the infected patient, he had removed his apron and belt, but was still dark around his eyes, showing despair. He showed Golan the patient infected with the parasites, and the surgeon fainted when the parasitical worms within the patient's body began crawling out.Blood and Bone, Chapter 10, UK MMPB p.580-584
*The Fist of Aren was already dead by the time Blood and Bone began. Yusen, the leader of the Malazan mercenaries, had killed the Fist at his briefing table, because a course of action the Fist intended would have - according to Burastan - "...reopened old wounds. Terrible old wounds. It would have been a bloodbath".Blood and Bone, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.815
==In Assail==
*Dorrin's father was the former king in exile of Anklos, a city in northeastern Genabackis. His family, the Batarius, were the original employers of Caladan Brood who they set to oppose the invading Malazans. When the Malazans took Anklos, they removed the family from power and forced them into exile. Before he died, Dorrin's father instructed the Shieldmaiden Lyan to take his eight-year-old son and heir Dorrin on an expedition to the goldfields of Assail. Their mission was to build a war chest to finance an army to retake their former home.Assail (novel), Chapter 5
*Orman's mother was the wife of Orman Bregin. She convinced her son, Orman, to reclaim his father's magic spear, Boarstooth, from the longhouse of his uncle, Jal. She claimed it was Orman's by right.Assail (novel), Chapter 1
*A Wounded old man was found by Kyle when he invested the wreckage of a caravan on the western plains of Assail. A prospector heading toward the northern gold fields, the man was a victim of the Silent People, who killed any outsider found in their territory. The dying man called out for Alana, Reena, and little Gerrol, but Kyle suspected they were either already dead or taken prisoner.Assail (novel), Chapter 5
==In Dancer's Lament==
*A Battered full helm spoke briefly with Gothos. A "weak, breathless voice" emanated from it. It accused Gothos of giving up too easily. Gothos identified it as an Azathanai.Dancer's Lament, Prologue, US TPB p.9-10
==In Deadhouse Landing==
*A Deputation of five Hood devotees, chosen by the most sizable congregations devoted to Hood, the 'God of Death' - from the lands surrounding the city of Li Heng - came to the city to ask Dassem Ultor, the Mortal Sword of Hood, for a boon. Because there was a deadly plague running rampant in the areas from which they came, which caused a high number of fatalities amongst those inflicted with it, the Deputation wished Dassem to intercede with Hood to discover what they could do to "avert this scourge...to turn [Hood's] displeasure aside", not from themselves, but from the members of their various flocks. Dassem, displeased by this request, made it clear that they - in particular - should know that there was no way to "cheat" death, that there was no possible propitiation to be performed that could turn aside the hand of Hood at the "appointed" hour. The four eldest delegates apparently accepted this and made moves to depart, but the youngest of them, Brother Jaim, accused Dassem of being an imposter - no true Mortal Sword of Hood - and that Dassem had to "prove himself". As a result, Dassem and Jaim fought a duel to the death in order to decide the matter.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 2, US TPB p.21-25 
*The Captain of the Tempest was the skipper of the corsair vessel, the Tempest, which was transporting Kallor and Lars Jindrift from Seven Ruins Island in the Rivan Sea of southern Genabackis in a westerly direction across the ocean. Kallor, having reached agreement with the vessel's captain on the route he wished the ship to take, took over the captain's spacious cabin. Once the ship was under weigh, some members of the crew of the Tempest hatched a plot to kill Kallor - who they perceived of as being very rich - Lars Jindrift, and the "cap'n" as well if the captain did not go along with their plan.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 8, US TPB p.161-165 The captain of the Tempest was referred to as "she" on one page,Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 8, US TPB p.162 and as "him" on the next,Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 8, US TPB p.163 leaving the actual gender of the captain unsettled.
*A Meckros city elder was one of an unnamed Meckros floating city's higher authorities. The city elder was a bearded old man who wore his sparse hair in a long plait and had a golden circlet adorning his head. Having learned that Kallor, aboard the corsair vessel the Tempest, had arrived at the piers of the ocean-going city - which at the time was located somewhere in the ocean between the continents of Genabackis and Quon Tali - the elder had quickly joined the armed force of men and women and the mechanical automaton city guardian, Keng, who were already at the pier. Being familiar with a much earlier visit by Kallor, the city elder tried to drive Kallor away by threats. However, reminded by Kallor of the details of his disastrous previous encounter with the Meckros city, the elder was reluctantly forced to agree to supply the Tempest with barrels of dried fish, fruit and water in exchange for Kallor's undertaking that he would refrain from sinking the floating city - which Kallor claimed, apparently believably, to be able to accomplish. Leaving the armed force and Keng to keep an eye on Kallor while the ship was being re-supplied, the Meckros city elder left the piers in an irate huff.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 12, US TPB p.246-247
*A Prisoner buried in Shadow had been buried for some time at the foot of a standing menhir in Kurald Emurlahn. The prisoner - a daemon - was inadvertently called upon to surface by the actions of Koro, a winged denizen of Shadow. The "chitinous armoured" head and shoulders of the imprisoned daemon appeared above the sands in which it was buried. Groaning, the unfortunate prisoner was disoriented, neither remembering its name, nor what it might once have been. The daemon vaguely recalled once being both powerful and important, but Koro informed it that it was now just an "imprisoned nobody" - an answer which angered it. Koro - having gotten unexpected inspiration from the unfortunate's situation - reversed the summoning, and the prisoner sank back into the sands as Koro flew away to attend to other business.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 14, US TPB p.263-264
*An old Churgeon, who lived near "Smiley's" bar in Malaz City, was called upon by Surly when Cartheron Crust was very badly wounded and needed the services of an experienced healer. After taking care of Cartheron, the old Churgeon started working on Surly - who had also been wounded - sewing up her multiple gashes. While in the middle of this, Dancer returned to "Smiley's", also badly cut up and covered in blood. The Churgeon eyed Dancer's assorted wounds and remarked that, "I'm good, but I'm not that good." Dancer assured the old man that he would be satisfied with whatever the Churgeon would be able to do for him. While waiting for the Churgeon to finish with Surly, Dancer realized that he badly needed to get all the blood covering him cleaned off and that he required a bath. "Smiley's" lacking such an amenity, the old Churgeon recommended old lady Carragan's boarding house which was located just down the street, as she had a bath that Dancer could use.Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 18, US TPB p.351/361 [Trivia: ICE's term, "churgeon", was clearly derived from an archaic English language word, "chirurgeon" - a term used for an early medical practitioner/surgeon dating from around the Middle Ages in Europe.]
==In Kellanved's Reach==
*The Queen of Nom Purge was the ruler of Nom Purge of western Quon Tali. Her capital was apparently the city of Purage, which was located on the west coast of the continent. The Queen was the holder of the contract of the mercenary troop of Orjin Samarr at the time of the genesis of the Malazan Empire.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 1, US TPB p.10-11Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 4, US TPB p.63 The Queen ruled with the aid of a Council of Nobles.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 12, US TPB p.184 
*Two of Surly's bodyguards guarded her office at "Smiley's". They were a Dal Honese woman and a man who appeared to be from the area around Itko Kan. The guards wore armour of blackened leather and carried knives at their belts. The two both possessed a "flat evaluative gaze" when examining visitors of Surly. The guards also sported silver brooches on their chests that resembled the claws of birds. Being ignorant of the existence of Surly's early Claws, Tayschrenn - upon first seeing these tokens - thought that they represented membership in some sort of order or brotherhood.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 2, US TPB p.30-31 
*Young gem miners were orphan lads and lasses of Li Heng who controlled and mined a very productive mine very rich in precious gems. Their mine was located at the base of the Escarpment of the River Idryn west of Li Heng.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 3, US TPB p.45-46 These youngsters had previously been enslaved by the extremely abusive and and brutal Hengan crime boss, Pung the child-stealer, until they had been rescued by Kellanved (going at the time by the name Wu). The young children had been sent by Wu (who they called 'Magister') to the gem minesDancer's Lament, Chapter 13, US HC p.242 - where they had flourished, finding a fortune of "rubies, emeralds, and sapphires". The majority of these young gem miners were a variety of 'Talents' - e.g., of Rashan, of Thyr, of D'riss, of Denul, and so on. These magical powers had enabled the youngsters to avoid being re-enslaved by any of the many greedy adult gem-hunters who also mined the Escarpment gem-field. About a year after their first arrival at the gem mines, the children were visited by Kellanved and Dancer. The two men were able to recruit the more than willing youngsters for a "new mission" - to become their spies and agents - i.e., to be their "hands, ears, and eyes" in the major cities of Quon Tali. About a dozen of the lads and lasses also showed Dancer crudely tattooed talons - Dancer's sigil - on their inner wrists and asked Dancer as to whether he would 'have them'. After making sure that the children understood that such a choice on their part must be purely voluntary, Dancer agreed to their plea - thus acknowledging them as the vanguard of what came to be his Talons.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 3, US TPB p.45-48
*Hill-folkKellanved's Reach, Chapter 6, US TPB p.100 of the hill tribesKellanved's Reach, Chapter 12, US TPB p.181 were terms used for the local inhabitants of a modest range of mountains and hills which ran from the rocky western coast of Quon Tali, dwindling away to the flat land at the eastern end of the range on which was located the city of Cullis.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 4, US TPB p.64 These locals became essential allies of the joint forces of Orjin Samarr and Prevost Jeral - performing as expert mountain guides, fighters, and scouts/messengers.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 4, US TPB p.64Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 6, US TPB p.99 The unknown number of hill tribes were led by chieftains know as hetmans, and by witches and shamans as elders and magic users.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 6, US TPB p.104 Although these local allies had important roles as individuals and in small as well as in large groups, the only hill-folk - actually named - was Hetman Petel.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 8, US TPB p.124
*A Napan priestess of Fener was a priestess of the war deity, Fener. This priestess had a tattoo of Fener's visage on her blue-skinned face. The Napan priestess was the youngest of a group of four devotees of Fener - all with just facial tattoos - who intercepted Heboric, another priest of Fener, who possessed a full-body tattoo of the Boar. Heboric was travelling between a large temple devoted to Poliel in the city of Horan — eastward along the southern shore of Quon Tali — to the "Isle of the Cursed", aka Poliel's "Isle of the Blessed". The group of two priestesses and two priests had stopped Heboric because they wished to urge him to return with them to their - and Heboric's - home temple of Fener. Heboric refused - having his own agenda to which he felt called - but noted that the Napan priestess, although young, spoke with great authority, which indicated to him that she possessed "great talent". Accepting Heboric's plans, the Napan priestess said to him, "Very well. Who are we to intercede? May the Great Boar watch over you".Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 4, US TPB p.66-68 
*Malle and Malkir's mother was the Queen Mother of Gris in the years before the founding of the Malazan Empire. A year after her son Malkir Herengar's death at Li Heng, she remained sickly and bedridden so Malle served as de facto ruler of Gris. When her twins had been born, the queen and king had commissioned twin thrones for their children's eventual rule.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 7, US HC p.117-118 
*A group of Veteran Iron Legionnaires, about one hundred strong, had come out of decades-long retirement in order to participate - with about fourteen hundred other Quon Talian defenders - in the defense of the twin cities of Quon and Tali against the threatened attack of the joint forces - which numbered around four thousand men and womenKellanved's Reach, Chapter 8, US TPB p.122-123 - of Nom Purge, commanded by Orjin Samarr and Prevost Jeral. The legionnaires were wearing the traditional black tabards of the storied Talian Iron Legion, and were armoured and armed with items which had obviously been "stored reverently for decades". These one hundred men and women were formed up in the center of the other defenders in an infantry square formed by a solid wall of black rectangular shields "emblazoned" with the silver circle/crown of the elite Iron Legion. The Nom Purge forces - led by Orjin Samarr - fought their way through the Quon Talian defenders until they came up against the shieldwall of the veteran legionnaires - who were now completely surrounded by the attackers. Calling for a temporary halt in the fighting, Orjin and a leader/spokesman of the legionnaires had a brief parley. This spokesman made it clear to Orjin that he and the other Iron Legionnaires were not interested in accepting the honourable truce that Orjin offered them, but were determined to fight until they "perished to a man and a woman". Orjin was sorry to hear this but understood that the black-clad veterans wanted to fall on the field of battle "shoulder to shoulder" with their comrades. Although the legionnaires - badly outnumbered - "held out for far longer than [Orjin] could have imagined", they eventually all lay dead amid their brother and sister Iron Legionnaires - just as they had wanted.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 8, US TPB p.123/125-128 
*A Dal Hon witch of the grassy, northern Dal Hon savannas was chasing down a fleeing young girl who - passing herself off as a mere slave - had been discovered to be actually a spy among the Dal Honese tribes. The witch, dressed in leather, was described as a handsome woman, with lush black hair woven into braids. These braids had interwoven within them colorful ribbons which had items such as gold coins, shells and gems tied to them. The witch succeeded in running down the girl and used magic to bind her hand and foot with ropes made of the grasses surrounding her. The girl - refusing to tell who had sent her to spy on the Dal Hon - the woman started a fire with dry grass and dead branches. The girl remaining recalcitrant, the witch tortured her by pushing her bound feet into the fire. Between each time that the woman placed the girl's feet onto the embers of the fire, she arranged cards for a reading (presumably of the Deck of Dragons). From these readings, the witch discovered that one 'new' card showed up again and again - the one indicating the "meddler", Shadow. The girl finally confessed that Shadow paid her for information about, "Anything. Everything." At this point, however, both the girl and the witch realized that someone else was about to arrive. After a small whirlwind of embers and flaming branches - which had engulfed the witch - had died down, the woman looked around and realized that she was now alone in a circle of fire. The Dal Hon witch then "screamed her rage" at losing her captive with so little learned from her.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 12, US TPB p.186-188 
*A female Renegade Itko Kan veteran, apparently an ex-officer, was the "obvious leader" of a group of veterans - "probably cashiered or deserted Itko Kan infantry" members - working for a mixed force of usurpers who had been responsible for deposing the child king, Chulalorn the Fourth, from the Kanese throne. The leader had been given the person of the deposed king and told "to get rid of him" - the more secretly and permanently the better. The ex-officer and her renegade force were taking a bound and gagged Chulalorn out to sea upon a royal barge - in order to accomplished these goals - when they were surprised by the appearance of Chulalorn's ex-bodyguard, Iko, on their vessel. Iko was prepared to do anything to save the child, while the ex-officer was determined to prevent this attempt at the rescue of the deposed king.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 21, US TPB p.323-326 
*Jhek in the Ice Fields of the far north of Quon Tali were four Jhek who came to meet Ullara - who was, at the time, helplessly at the end of her resources in the ice wastes of northern Quon Tali. The Jhek were squat, fur-wrapped individuals with very weathered skin and eyes which were closed to just slits. Ullara could see the Jhek because they had brought with them a cage in which was a large bird of prey - through whose eyes Ullara was able to see. The four Jhek bowed to Ullara and welcomed her, addressing her as 'priestess'. Upon Ullara expressing puzzlement at this title, the Jhek told her that their last remaining priest was old and dying. They went on to explain that this failing, elderly priest had "cast forth a summoning for new blood", and that Ullara had answered it by her arrival. The four clarified who they were, telling Ullara that they were called the Jhek and that in them the "beast-blood" was strong. Exhausted and at a complete loss, Ullara gave herself over to the Jhek as they wrapped her in layers of warm furs and placed her on a sled. The Jhek then transported her to meet the rest of their people.Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 21, US TPB p.328-329
==In Forge of the High Mage==
* A Malazan trench-digger was among the soldiers in Dujek Onearm's army as it crossed the Great Fenn Range to participate in the invasion of Falar. High Mage Tayschrenn was passing a trench where the soldier was among a detail of others digging a trench. Not realising the High Mage was nearby, the soldier proceeded to loudly criticise Tayschrenn's character as his mortified comrade, Missy, made eye contact with the subject of his harangue.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 6, UK HC p.87
*A War Isle boatwright working in Deep Cove on the eastern shore of War Isle was the best ship repairer on the island. Unfortunately, he was also the island's most irredeemable drunk. After Imanaj D'Shren became shipwrecked on the island, he gave the work of repairing his launch over to the boatwright, but often found the man drunk and asleep rather than working. When pressed for an explanation, the boatwright revealed that timber was scarce on the island and he was waiting for its delivery.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 6, UK HC p.95-97 After witnessing Imanaj's martial prowess against a ship of invading Malazan freebooters, the boatwright was quick to complete his work.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 17, UK HC p.262
*A Falaran grandfather and his young granddaughter lived in a small cottage on a cliff above the beach on the southern coast of Big Island in the Falari Isles south of Ictor. The man was a fisherman who worked from a small dory. The startled granddaughter discovered Gianna's unconscious body lying in the surf below their cottage and the fisherman brought her to safely recover in their home. Once Gianna awoke, the fisherman disbelieved her story of being a castaway and gruffly relayed his granddaughter's suspicions that Gianna was one of Mael's daughters--the sea-people--based on the colour of her hair. He made no effort to stop her from leaving.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 11, UK HC p.167-168
*Gianna encountered a young Ictor boy in the countryside south of Ictor at a rickety lean-to shelter set on the side of the path for travellers. The boy had a two-wheeled mule-drawn cart piled high with hay and offered her a ride into the city.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 11, UK HC p.168-169
*The Children favoured of Mael were a group of boys and girls (including Ranat) Gianna encountered on the docks of Ictor. Their dark hair proof of their identity as members of the Falar's original inhabitants, they had been rounded by slavers at the call of Proctor Ortheal Leneth of the Cult of Mael. They were to be brought to Cabil to be sacrificed in the sea god's name before Gianna used her Ruse magic to sweep their captors into the water. Captain Brevin sympathised with their plight and allowed Gianna and the children to escape Ictor aboard her vessel, the Sea Glimmer.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 11, UK HC p.169-171 To help pay for their passage, the children used their uncanny talents in the water to help Gianna salvage treasure from shipwrecks in the Sparrow Pass Cut, even rescuing Gianna from the depths when her own skills faltered.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 13, UK HC p.200-204 Ultimately, they were recaptured and brought back to Cabil with Gianna to serve as potential sacrifices to control the Jhistal.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 15, UK HC p.231-234Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 18, UK HC p.277-280 Their fates after the Malazan capture of Cabil were unrevealed.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 28, UK HC p.438
*A group of Ictor slavers (four men and a woman) gathered a group of children on a pier at Ictor as part of the Call for "recruitment" ordered by Proctor Ortheal Leneth of the Cult of Mael. Gianna knew the practise as "the Cull" from her mother as it focused solely on the island's original dark-haired inhabitants--the so-called favoured of Mael. The former High Priestess refused to allow the children to be brought to Cabil to be sacrificed in the sea god's name and used her Ruse magic to sweep their captors into the water. When the angry slavers attempted to fight back, she used her magic to start pulling them under the water and threatened to drown them if they did not swim away. The slavers begrudgingly complied.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 11, UK HC p.169-171
*A Belade labourer was the first person Gianna saw on Belade's wrecked city docks when she arrived by ship from Jook. When asked what had caused the destruction, the labourer reported that the city council blamed it on a tidal bore, but everyone knew it was actually due to the crestwave from the passing of the Jhistal. He had not seen it personally, but he knew others who had.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 20, UK HC p.305-306
*A Talon messenger tracked Dancer to the tent of the Bird Mother, discomforting the assassin when she dropped to one knee and addressed him as master. The Talon reported that Kellanved and the Twisted were missing, so Dancer ordered her to transport him to Dujek Onearm and his army. She was a lean, dark-eyed woman wearing functional dark-stained leathers with twin knives sheathed across her chest, at her hips, and on her thighs.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 21, UK HC p.322-324
*An Old Guando Man was sitting in the ruins of Guando when Gianna went there aboard the Sea Glimmer to hide after discovering the secrets of the Jhistal. She discovered the ancient-looking man with red, rheumy half-blind eyes sitting on a block of marble outside a hut of sticks leaning against the white marble wall of a former temple of Mael. Cooking smoke rose through the hut's roof of broken tiles. Saying he had been told to expect the priestess, he offered her a place to sleep in the hut, which Gianna gladly accepted.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 28, UK HC p.439
*Two Cabil servant girls were among the many who served Glinith Apanar, the Abbess of Mael in Cabil. After watching the Malazan investiture of Cabil from the Abbey's rooftop, the Abbess returned to her quarters to find the place turned to chaos. Her private rooms were overturned and looted by her own servants. She caught one servant-girl in the act of stealing her fine silks and brocades from her wardrobe. The enraged Abbess confronted her and was shocked when the servant defiantly dismissed her. Outside in the hallway, the Abbess encountered another young servant-girl laden with golden goblets. Unaware of the extent of the Malazan military success, the Abbess grabbed her by the arm and demanded to know what was going on. The servant-girl calmly and deliberately slapped her in the face and ran off.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 29, UK HC p.447-448
*A Young farmhand was working in the fields above Old Ilk when the haggard and starving Ayal and Hyde stumbled out of the wilderlands. Laden with treasure from the K'Chain Che'Malle nest in the Ice Wastes, the two questioned the boy about their location and were pleased to learn of the small nearby fishing town. They sought to purchase a boat in the town, but the boy warned that the families who owned them needed them to make a living and would not sell. The jubilant twins told him that would not be a problem.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 29, UK HC p.451
==In The God is Not Willing==
*Blanket's grandmother gave him an amulet engraved with the words: "Kill this boy before he grows up". He was said to keep it "up his butthole" and could eject it upon the flame of a fiery fart.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 1, US HC p.20-22
*Stillwater wore a ragged scarf of unbleached linen around her neck that she had retrieved from the corpse of a Dead witch while robbing her barrow. The linen had been wrapped around the witch's eyes and hid a pair of coins that Stillwater and fellow graverobber, Brenoch, had a murderous falling out over. Stillwater wore the linen to spare others the sight of her assassin tattoo, but most who saw it were more disturbed by the twin stains that had been left by the corpse's eyes.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 1, US HC p.27-28 A Rhivi trader who observed the stains warned Stillwater that "the witch watches with unkind eyes", recommending she burn the linen since a spirit or its curse rode with it.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 11, US HC p.177-179 When Benger brought Stillwater and Anyx Fro into another realm to cure Sarlis of her Blood-oil addiction, they were swarmed by hordes of enemies. The dead witch took on the ethereal form of a rotting woman in a funeral shroud. While insulting Stillwater for robbing her tomb, she worked her magic to blow apart their attackers. The witch invoked the name of Errastas' Hold, prompting Stillwater to wonder how old she really was.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 16, US HC p.272-274
*A Dead Korhivi witch spoke to Rant near the northern shore of Silver Lake as he hid from the Saemdhi hunting him and Damisk. The woman was not truly Korhivi, but that was what the settlers of Silver Lake thought her in their ignorance. When the Saemdhi had moved into her people's territory, they had killed her first, recognising the witch as their greatest threat, and her body was still riddled with their arrows. She told Rant she had once thought to kidnap him and return him to his people. Now she advised him to warn the Teblor that the northern Jaghut ice was melting and would soon unleash a catastrophic flood from which they must flee. Rant begged her to save Damisk and she begrudgingly agreed. She did not hate the Saemdhi for killing her because she understood the panic that drove them south. Damisk later discovered the body of one of his Saemdhi pursuers with a broken neck and studded with arrows.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 4, US HC p.72-77
*A Saemdhi man, Saemdhi young woman, and a Saemdhi crone confronted Rant after they found him on the northern shore of Silver Lake while they hunted Damisk. Their limbs were tattooed in spiral patterns, they wore necklaces of teeth, and their long, unbound yellow hair was decorated with bird bones. Their hide belts were adorned with scalps. The man was broad-shouldered, bandy-legged, and pale-eyed. He wore a mask made of bone pieces and carried barbed arrows and a bow of horn so polished it resembled amber. The young woman was almost plump with a round face pocked by black tattoos that left raised scars. She carried a javelin. The crone was unarmed and her weathered skin and bony appearance made it appear she was dying. Her hair was so pale it was nearly colourless and her glittering eyes were buried deep beneath a massive shelf brow. The three argued in their own language over what to do with the half-Teblor boy. The crone offered Rant dried meat and scarps of fat from her hide bag and drink from her waterskin, explaining how the Saemdhi had once lived on an island surrounded by ice, but now the ice was gone. Then the three tried the young woman's idea to use Rant as bait to draw in Gower, one of the Jheck who were their people's enemy. But the D'ivers killed all three in his six wolf forms before turning on the boy.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 6, US HC p.107-111
*A Malazan marine with a knife came to Rant's aid in Silver Lake when he saw the bleeding half-Teblor boy being pelted with stones by a group of children. The Malazan Marine had a weathered face full of wrinkles and white scars, and his eyes were like almonds and black as pitch. He gave Rant the first gift he had ever received--a knife made of Aren steel. The marine made clear that it was a weapon and not a tool for whittling or cutting up vegetables. He told Rant the knife was for when the boy grew tired of the other children's "playing". When one of the watching children begged for a weapon of his own, the marine backhanded the boy and warned the others that the knife belonged to Rant. If he ever found it in one of their hands, he vowed to kill them and their parents and burn down the village.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 6, US HC p.122
*The Imperial Administrator of Silver Lake had been killed in the Teblor uprising that nearly destroyed the town. Since then, her work had been performed by Lieutenant Nast Forn who desperately sought for the Malazan Empire to send a replacement.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 7, US HC p.131
*Damisk encountered a God in chains when he passed through the Beast Hold into an unknown realm. He found himself in a world seemingly devoid of animal life other than what appeared to be Great Ravens flocking around four K'Chain Che'Malle Skykeeps that floated overhead. He was forced to hide while looking for food when hundreds of K'Chain Che'Malle returned overland bearing butchered carcasses. He was soon spotted by one of the "Great Ravens" who were revealed to actually be a flying species of K'Chain Che'Malle. The hunters pursued him to a pedestal in a clearing where an enormous grey-skinned god with three sets of arms sprouting from an elongated torso was chained. Its features appeared as if hacked from stone with its rough, rude angles worn smooth by wind and rain. Its face was blockish and angular with deep-set eyes, prominent cheekbones, and long hair the same colour as its skin. Its topmost pair of arms wielded a bow whose string glistened like diamond, while its other hands wielded an array of stone weapons. It did not speak. The god killed several of the K'Chain Che'Malle before Damisk freed it to chase them back to their skykeeps. Once the chains were broken, darkness overwhelmed Damisk and when he awoke he found a gift of meat and the skykeeps shattered and destroyed. The hunter assumed the god had been long ago chained by his worshippers to circumscribe his wrath, but they had all fallen at his hands in the process. Their boulder-like heads still littered the clearing. Then the forgotten god had been helpless to prevent the K'Chain Che'Malle from ravaging his world.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 10, US HC p.163-172/174
*A Rhivi trader was among a group of Rhivi bringing five wagons drawn by sickly-looking oxen to Silver Lake. He was old and flat-faced with a plains accent that sounded like music when he spoke in Genabarii. The traders were met at the settlement's New Gate by Stillwater and Anyx Fro and questioned about the goods they carried. Among their cargo was medicines, spices, feathers, perfumes, jewellery, raw copper amber, hides, loom-weights, spindles, baskets, sandals, bone needles, yellow-thorn, fire-sage, rat-tails, duck eggs, snake-skins, bowstrings, arrowshafts, and live weasels and ferrets. While Stillwater was suspicious of his intent, Any Fro purchased a weasel she named Creature. When the Rhivi trader caught sight of the burial shroud Stillwater wore about her neck, he said, "The witch watches with unkind eyes." He warned her to burn it, saying a spirit or her curse rode her. When asked about the sixth wagon in the train, he admitted it was the Shrine of the Monk and only travelled with them.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 11, US HC p.177-180
*A Legless old woman served as the driver for a wagon bearing Monkrat and his shrine. The wagon's black lacquered wood and ornate carvings resembled a Trygalle Trade Guild carriage, although it was pulled by a huge, healthy ox. It was the last in a line of five other more mundane wagons led by Rhivi traders to Silver Lake. Inspecting the wagons at New Gate, Stillwater suspiciously questioned the old woman holding the ox's traces from atop the carriage's high bench. The driver was old and gnarled and smoked a pipe whose smoke was the same colour as her eyes, skin, and hair. After asking the driver why no one had buried her yet, Stillwater threatened to enter the carriage until Monkrat addressed her from small open slide panel where the driver's legs would have been.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 11, US HC p.177-180
*The Garrison Captain who commanded the Malazan Garrison at Silver Lake had perished around the time of the Teblor uprising. He had allowed slaving operations to continue at the town in defiance of imperial law in return for taking money from the slavers on the sly. When Master Sergeant Bliss Rolly discovered his crime, she knifed him in a shack and then burned it to the ground. It was believed an escaped slave must have tracked him down and killed him. Despite his death, Bliss had the captain charged for corruption and stripped of rank so that his charred bones could be thrown into the lake and not allowed to rest with the other fallen Malazan soldiers.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 15, US HC p.258-259
*A Wilder scout observed Stillwater and So Bleak as they patrolled the eastern edge of Silver Lake's defensive berm. The Malazans expected an imminent attack by the indigenous population so were not surprised a "hairy scout" was attempting to secretly pace them in the trees. The two marines ignored the spy as they came upon Anyx Fro attempting to test her latest invention--the Iron Maw--which fired a denatured munitions mix. When the marine test fired the weapon it blasted a huge horizontal hole deep into the forest. Of the scout there remained only a pair of legs.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 17, US HC p.295-299
*A Red-bearded Marine was among those Mages of the XIVth Legion that readied to face the Teblor army of Elade Tharos north of Culvern. After many of the Teblor were cut down by buried Moranth munitions, a massive wave of meltwater rushed over the land from the north threatening to carry both the Teblor armies and their Malazan opponents away to their deaths. But the marines, seeing death approach, cast spells in attempt to save themselves and the Teblor enemy who they now saw as refugees. The red-beared mage rushed to a stunned Dayliss and ordered her to gather her people together. He knew their chances were poor, but he would rather die trying. Dayliss stopped Ketarst from killing the man before he began working his magic. For a time he was able to hold the water back from the huddled group, but soon he began to steam and his body burned to ash as the magic consumed him. He apologised to Dayliss as he died and the waters took them.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 19, US HC p.367-376
*A Pregnant Teblor was among the Rathyd warriors who accompanied Warleader Elade Tharos out of the Laederon Plateau for the Teblor invasion of the southlands. Near Culvern a massive wave of meltwater rushed over the land from the north threatening to carry both the Teblor armies and their Malazan XIVth Legion opponents away to their deaths. But the marines, seeing death approach, cast spells in attempt to save themselves and the Teblor enemy who they now saw as refugees. The pregnant woman was swept up by Stillwater into the relative safety of Kurald Emurlahn, along with a dozen other Teblor men, women, and children, as well as Anyx Fro]], Benger, Clay Plate, and Daint. Since she knew the Malazan tongue, the pregnant Teblor spoke for Kadarast and the others when she expressed their astonishment at the marines' actions. They were humbled by the Malazans' actions and swore to become marines themselves.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 22, US HC p.430-440 Eventually Stillwater guided them all to safety in the Blued Spine Hills.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 23, US HC p.451-452
*A Malazan deserter fled into the Laederon Plateau and sought refuge amongst the Rathyd Teblor. At first he had been barely tolerated, but eventually he was wholly welcome. He spent at least ten years living in Hestalan's household who he taught in the Nathii and Malazan languages. When he died of fever two years before Warleader Elade Tharos' invasion of the south, his death was mourned by the village as one of their own.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 23, US HC p.445-446
*A Teblor youth was one of two Teblor children So Bleak encountered in the refugee camp the survivors of the XIVth Legion established in the Blued Spine Hills. She had blonde hair and glints of silver in her eyes, and both she and her brother towered over So Bleak. Hunger and shock made them listless, but the girl was able to address So Bleak in heavily accented Nathii. She was surprised the marine was set on filling the chinks in their crude shelter with clay without asking for help. So Bleak explained that the marines were always building.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 23, US HC p.448
==In Blood Follows==
*Lamentable Moll Watch corporal assisted Watch sergeant Guld in the task of investigating a series of gruesome murders in the city. The corporal's armor was fitted for a larger man and his sword was still wax-sealed in its scabbard.Blood Follows, Section 3 He was assigned to observe anyone approaching the notice placed in Fishmonger's Round by Bauchelain and Korbal Broach and observed that the pair had hired Emancipor Reese, former employee of one of the murder victims.Blood Follows, Section 11 The corporal assisted Guld in forcing an audience with Bauchelain at Sorrowman's Hostel.Blood Follows, Section 12
*Princess Sharn's handmaiden helped the princess track the murderer stalking the streets of Lamentable Moll to Fishmonger's Round. The princess willingly sacrificed her servant's life to satisfy her own predilection for blood and pain.Blood Follows, Section 19
==In The Lees of Laughter's End==
* Birds Mottle's father made his living collecting clams on a mud-flat near Toll's City. He competed in this task with the local raccoon population which possessed an intellect and cunning superior to his own. One final fit of angered outrage left his daughter orphaned at fifteen.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 26
* The Toll's City court mage was the first to understand the significance of the six statues discovered buried under Avoidance Alley behind the city's keep. He ordered the Sech'kellyn brought to his apothecary for study and then a week later had them relocated to a powerfully warded strong room within the keep. But it was too late. The statues' influence drove the man mad and he drowned himself in a bowl of soapy water.The Lees of Laughter's End, Section 29
==In The Wurms of Blearmouth ==
* Fangatooth's cook worked for the sorcerer-tyrant at Wurm's Keep in Spendrugle. When Lord Fangatooth Claw hosted a dinner for necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, Bauchelain chided him or trying to poison them with yellow paralt. Fangatooth professed ignorance and said he would speak with the cook.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 20 He later punished the cook's failure to kill their guests by stabbing the cook through the left eye.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 26
* Witch Hurl discovered a dead Chanter sailor wedged among the rocks along the shoreline of Spendrugle. She thought him alive when he moved and thought to eat him to revive her weakened body. She was surprised when he smiled at her and asked for help escaping the rocks. One of the undead crewmembers of the Unreasoning Vengeance, he said he was not much of a sailor but that Tiny Chanter insisted he take the tiller of the ship during their battle with the Suncurl. The cheerful fellow was confused when Hurl began to eat him, but decided it was for the best if it got him off the rocks.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 29 His head was last seen floating out to sea in the direction of home.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 32
*Another tortured man shared the Wurm's Keep dungeon with Warmet Humble. He was the last of a group of strangers who had arrived in Spendrugle and proved too obnoxious to merely hang. Lord Fanagatooth took great pleasure in torturing each of them until only one remained. This terribly scarred man was in even worse shape than Warmet. The two spent time arguing over games of Twenty Questions.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 7 When Warmet was released by Bauchelain he refused to allow his fellow prisoner to be released because he was a cheater.The Wurms of Blearmouth, Section 44
==In The Healthy Dead==
* The Baby Saint was an infant rescued from a stampeding crowd in Quaint by Imid Factallo. The child bruised its head in the process and Elas Sil declared it the youngest Saint of Glorious Labour.The Healthy Dead, Section 15 The Stentorian Nun tried to take possession of the baby, but Imid, wrongfully suspecting the motive of cannibalism, set a violent mob upon her.The Healthy Dead, Section 28 The saint had a tendency to release its bowels or bladder on anyone holding it.The Healthy Dead, Sections 15 and 35
* Hood's minion was a servant of the god of death who felt unappreciated by his master. He polished the skulls on the Gate of Death and swept its pathway clean, but was never considered for greater things. He was a hunched, scrawny, boned figure who hobbled with a cane. He appeared before the dead King Necrotus in Quaint to bring him through Death's gate, but was rebuffed. Hood's minion swore to raise a legion against the abominable necromancer, Korbal Broach, to prove his worth and cursed mortals' lack of gratitude for his services.The Healthy Dead, Section 29
==In Crack'd Pot Trail==
*The Fenn and the Imass woman were part of a tale told by Calap Roud that he stole from Stenla Tebur of Aren. The Fenn was the last survivor of his Fenn tribe, passing through the mountains when he came upon a starving Ifayle Imass camp.Crack'd Pot Trail, Chapter 3 The Imass woman took him in as a guest and they fell in love. After a night of lovemaking that resulted in pregnancy, she awoke to find her beloved had brought her fresh meat. After eating, she discovered the man had butchered her entire tribe. He was revealed to be the monster that had murdered his own people.Crack'd Pot Trail, Chapter 6
*A Sensible poet suggested they butcher and eat the horses when a caravan of travelers ran out of food on the Cracked Pot Trail. The well armed knights and hunters who owned the horses declined thinking them more useful than the caravan's group of artists. Mortal Sword Tulgord Vise severed the poet's head and he became the first of many artistic meals to feed the caravan.Crack'd Pot Trail, Chapter 3
==In The Fiends of Nightmaria==
*A Spitted priest of Dessembrae - having been roasted over an open fire - was intended to be the main course at a cozy candle-lit dinner between the High Concubine Allgiva and the Demon Prince, Prince Flail Their Limbs. The priest being 'done', Prince Flail had just cut off a "haunch of dripping meat" when Bauchelain magically summoned the Demon Prince into a pentagram within his Conjuration Chamber which was located in the Royal Palace of Farrog. The Prince arrived with a "haunch of priest thigh" in one hand and a goblet of sweet wine in the other. Prince Flail was enraged - not only at being summoned to begin with, but also because this was not the first time that such a summoning by Bauchelain had occurred under the same circumstances - i.e., interrupting a dinner tête-à-tête with the "delicious" Allgiva as guest and, as entree, roasted priest of Dessembrae.The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 9
* The Cook at the Royal Palace of Farrog had, as one of her responsibilities, the preparation of meals for Binfun, the Royal Torturer. This had been routine until Binfun had had the occasion to torture to death Sorponce Egol, an actor in possession of the "Perfect Profile", who had been a great favorite of Cook. From that point on, Cook made sure that Binfun's meals were grossly overcooked and practically inedible. Binfun had reported this unsatisfactory situation to Shartorial Infelance, Seneschal of the Royal Palace of Farrog, but her interventions had had no success in changing Cook's vindictiveness with regard to Binfun's meals. The Cook's actions unwittingly spared Binfun's life for a time as he did not eat the meal which the Seneschal had poisoned in an attempt to kill him.The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 10
* The Archivist of the Grand Library was the archivist of Farrog's Grand Library of the Arts, Alchemy, Nature and Divination. One of the periodic users of the Grand Library was the Ambassador of Nightmaria to Farrog, Ophal D'Neeth Flatroq, who had an interest in the history of Farrog. The Archivist possessed a "neurotic terror of...creatures either slimy or scaly or both" and unfortunately the Ambassador could, without stretching, be described in exactly those terms - making it impossible for the Archivist to tolerate his presence in the small building that housed the Library. The Archivist and the Ambassador came to an agreement, however, and Ophal D'Neeth Flatroq was allowed to access the Grand Library's collection during the night hours between midnight and dawn - times when the Archivist would not be present.The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 13 
* An Enthroned Demonic Mouse was left on the throne of the Royal Palace of Farrog after King Bauchelain and Korbal Broach had fled the city. The group of Nehemothanai, set on the permanent elimination of the two necromancers, had arrived at the Throne Room only to find a cute-looking mouse situated there. The Demon Prince, Flail Their Limbs--who had been exiting as the group had been entering--warned them that the mouse left by Bauchelain was demon-possessed and if they did not leave it alone, "blood, guts and messy death" could follow. Despite having been warned, the group prepared to attack before Steck Marynd accidentally shot the Demonic Mouse with a crossbow bolt which triggered a cascade of destruction that ended in the palace's collapse. The fate of the [Nehemothanai was unknown.The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 27
* A Mysterious Lady commanded an army pursuing Bauchelain and Korbal Broach after they fled Farrog. Bauchelain expressed weariness of staying one step ahead of her and considered passing through a Warren to confuse their trail.The Fiends of Nightmaria, Section 31
==In Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords==
*A Scribe was employed by Chancellor Gullyb of Earbeford to record the contract hiring the necromancers, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach, to eliminate the undead army of The Tearful Three. When Bauchelain saw the ten thousand undead arrayed against the town, he demanded his payment be doubled. The Chancellor angrily summoned the frazzled and trembling scribe bearing the scrolls with their original signed agreement, but Bauchelain could not be swayed. The scribe was pale with ink-stained fingers and a blue-stained lower lip.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 1, p.1-2
*Emancipor Reese acquired a pet Puppy as he, Bauchelain, and Korbal Broach escaped a burning city from an angry mob. It had literally landed in his lap amidst a hail of bricks, knives, torches, broken furniture, and statuary. He kept the ugly, sand-coloured, snub-nosed dog with floppy ears and mismatched eyes wrapped in a coarse blanket.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 19, p.4Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 12, p.61 Bauchelain allowed him to keep the as yet unnamed pet stating that it was an obligation for life, giving advice on its care, and warning the manservant to keep it away from Korbal Broach.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 4, p.19-20 Arriving in the town of Earbeford, the puppy somehow found its way into the hands of the addle-minded wet-nurse, Anavalistia. She mistook it for the newborn baby of councilwoman NistillaUpon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 12, p.60-61 and nursed it at her breast until Reese noticed the tail dangling from its blanket. He demanded the dog's return until the wet-nurse demanded three jeerkhins in exchange. Reese relinquished his ownership and Burok, the town Manuromancer, adopted it instead, saying "dogs got a good nose for smelling bad shit and all."Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 30, p.101 Anavalistia took the dog back with her when she departed Earbeford next to Reese atop the necromancers' carriage. When she told him the dog's name (unrevealed to the reader), the manservant found it fit most perfectly.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 32, p.104-106
*The Mayor of Earbeford provided Burok with a full set of chain mail, a helm, and a flail after the town's Manuromancer was conscripted into the forces defending them against the undead army of The Tearful Three. Burok scryed the excrement of both the mayor and his wife discovering that the conflict could go either way and that the approach of someone or something represented the possibility of salvation or doom.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 5, p.22-23 The mayor likely perished when the undead horde, freed by the Tearful Three's deaths, killed and devoured the townspeople.Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 31, p.102-104Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords, Section 32, p.104
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