Mudslinger

Mudslinger was a Malazan marine.House of Chains, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.443-444 Braven Tooth called him a tough one and a survivor.
==In House of Chains==
Mudslinger was stranded on Drift Avalii together with Traveller, Hawl, and other surviving marines after their fleet had had a chance encounter with Tiste Edur ships. Cutter sought out the Malazan survivors to aid Darist and the Tiste Andii in their defence of the island's Throne of Shadow against Edur attack. The Malazans decided to defend the island at Traveller's insistence. As Mudslinger had been wounded in the naval battle, he was left behind. The others were cut down by the Edur.House of Chains, Chapter 12, US SFBC p.442-447
==In The Bonehunters==
It transpired that Mudslinger was one of a half-dozen Malazan survivors of the battle on Drift Avalii. Afterwards, Traveller had ordered the Malazans to leave the island aboard one of the Tiste Edur dromons while he continued to defend the island on his own. When they left, their ship was hit by a storm. The survivors were washed ashore on an atoll where they spent months drinking coconut milk and eating clams. Eventually they were rescued and brought to Malaz City by the Jakatakan Fleet.House of Chains, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.649The Bonehunters, Chapter 21
Mudslinger and fellow castaway, Gentur, became regulars together at Coop's Hanged Man Inn. Among the clientele, they befriended Foreigner and largely tried to avoid Master Sergeant Braven Tooth. Mudslinger had bad memories of training under the Master Sergeant. On the night the Bonehunters returned to Malaz City, Braven Tooth recruited the pair to eliminate the Claw he spotted tailing his friend Banaschar out of the bar.The Bonehunters, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.860-861 The pair followed Saygen Maral into an alley, but the Claw was aware of them and prepared an ambush. Gentur died with a tiny quarrel to the base of his skull while Mudslinger ducked to avoid a quarrel to the gut that instead hit above his heart. Braven Tooth found Mudslinger and found him help before he too perished.The Bonehunters, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.863-865The Bonehunters, Chapter 23, US SFBC p.895
== In Reaper's Gale ==
Mudslinger joined Sergeant Thom Tissy's 12th Squad of the 8th Legion, 9th Company of the Bonehunters, along with Corporal Tulip, Ramp, Bellig Harn, Gullstream, and Bellig Harn. He served as Medium infantry.Reaper's Gale, Dramatis Personae, US TPB p.15 
Adjunct Tavore Paran clashed with Empress Laseen at Malaz City and took the Bonehunters rogue, following the Tiste Edur fleet that had ravaged Sepik back to Lether.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.356 Tavore invaded the Letherii Empire, burning her transport vessels on the shoreline and spreading the marines in isolated pairs of squads across thirty leagues of coast. The marines moved forward into the Letherii countryside towards Letheras, the capital, with orders to kill Edur by night and stir the occupied Letherii into rebellion. Each squad had a mage responsible for hiding their presence and confusing their enemies.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.361-365 Fist Keneb followed in their wake with six squads of marines, including Tissy's 12th squad.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.363-364
Once the marines began engaging with the enemy, Keneb had difficulty maintaining contact with his lead elements. Tissy told Keneb that he and the others in the squad understood his anxiety at following impossible orders under difficult conditions. The Fist called him presumptuous and told him to tell his squad to stop theorising.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17, US HC p.500-503 
Contrary to the Adjunct's expectations, the Letherii soldiers did not use the Malazan invasion to turn against their Edur occupiers.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 14, US HC p.410Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17, US HC p.481 As the marines neared Letheras fighting became more desperate, and a large force of Edur stood between Keneb's troops and the forward marines. Thom Tissy heartened the Fist by claiming his troops were ready for a hard fight. They fought their way to a village where all the remaining squads had converged before continuing on together to the capital.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 21, US HC p.637-639 Thousands of Edur followed in their wake, pushing them towards the city where the Imperial Brigade awaited.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.673-674
Caught between the two armies near Kravos Hill, the 800 remaining MalazansReaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.745 were forced to huddle under Beak's protective spell when the Letherii mages cast a deadly ritual of Chaos upon them and the Edur. The spell was broken, but the hair of all those under Beak's protection turned white. The Edur abandoned the field after their allies' betrayal, and the shaken Imperial Brigade withdrew to meet Adjunct Tavore's more threatening main force as it disembarked from the Lether River.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.679/686-695
Keneb marched on Letheras thinking the marines deserved to be the first to enter the capital.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.778 After the marines found a hidden entrance beneath the wall, Thom Tissy's squad was among those sent to secure the city's western gate from the inside to allow the main army entrance into the city. City Garrison soldiers tried to retake the gate in bloody fighting, but Tissy's squad held on long enough for Balm's squad, and then others, to arrive.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.779/790-791 Soon the City Garrison surrendered and the city fell.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.812
==Trivia==
Although included in the Dramatis Personae of Reaper's Gale, Mudslinger was not mentioned by name anywhere in the text of the novel. 
==Notes and references==
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