Kadaspala

Kadaspala [KAD-ah-spal-ah]Steven Erikson Interview and Discussion of The Kharkanas Trilogy - Books with Banks - As pronounced by Steven Erikson at 21:55 was an insane, blind Tiste Andii artist who was among the prisoners of Dragnipur. His eye sockets bore the terrible scarring of deliberate burns and his legs were missing below the hips so that he moved by dragging himself. He used a long, sharpened bone with a blackened point as a stylus to paint with Bloodwood and Blackwood pitch that sweat from the wagon.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.523/525Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.638 
Kadaspala was the brother of Andarist's wife, Enesdia, and also was among the first to find themselves chained to The wagon after he attempted to wrest Dragnipur from Draconus to slay Anomander Rake. Kadaspala blamed Rake "for what he did" to Enesdia and Andarist. After he had seen what Rake had done, the artist had blinded himself.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.525-526 
==In Toll the Hounds==
Draconus placed Ditch's body atop the others piled in the wagon once the Mage was too weak and broken to pull anymore. There he met Kadaspala tattooing a pattern on every exposed patch of skin of the unmoving bodies. Lines and images made up of intricate, delicate traceries and patterns within patterns crossed from one body to the next. By arrangement with Draconus, the pattern was meant to defy the pursuing storm of Chaos that was rapidly gaining on them.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.818 Kadaspala moved to make Ditch's eye the nexus of the pattern, but Ditch wanted no part of it and tried to crawl away.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 13, US SFBC p.520-526 Eventually, Draconus broke Ditch's neck to immobilize him and allow the artist to continue his work.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.638-641
But Kadaspala had no intention of following Draconus' plan and thought it a doomed effort. Instead, he created a Child god in search of justiceToll the Hounds, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.818Toll the Hounds, Chapter 22, US SFBC p.909Toll the Hounds, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.733-734 under the suspicion it would soon be needed against Rake.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.972 When Anomander Rake appeared atop the wagon after Dragnipur took his life, Kadaspala saw his chance for revenge and directed the burgeoning child god to slay the Lord of Darkness. As the god formed of the pattern drew its knife, Ditch used Rake's example to convince it of the value of self-sacrifice. The child god plunged its knife into Kadaspala's chest to kill its creator and the pattern drank his blood.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.972-973/981-983
==In Forge of Darkness==
Kadaspala, of House Enes, was a renowned portrait painter with a dismissive, testy manner. His final work was of Vatha Urusander, commander of Urusander's Legion.
His family fell victim to the plotting of rogue Urusander's Legionnaire, Hunn Raal. Enesdia's wedding party, which included their father Jaen Enes, was murdered by soldiers before the wedding to Andarist could take place.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 14, UK HC, p.440
Kadaspala came upon the scene of his sister's murder and in his grief pulled out his own eyes. He blamed Anomander Rake for not having been there to prevent the murder.Forge of Darkness, Chapter 15
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