Chord

Chord was a Malazan patrol sergeant posted on the Wickan frontier. He served under the command of Lieutenant Rillish Jal Keth, a man he had known since their days in the Malaz 6th Army during the Korel campaign.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 1, US HC p.270-271 
Chord enjoyed chewing rustleaf.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 4, US HC p.156
==In Return of the Crimson Guard==
Chord's patrol stumbled upon a gang of Malazan settlers who had gone on a murderous rampage through a camp of Crow clan Wickans. He forcibly relieved them of their prisoners and granted a young rape victim a trial by combat against her rapist. The perpetrator did not survive.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 2, US HC p.83-85
Chord's actions stoked tensions with the greater settler community. Over seventy Wickan elders and children took shelter at the fort before a settler mob surrounded and besieged it. Rillish refused to turn the Wickans over to the mob, and after several weeks the fort fell. Only a suicidal ritual conducted by the Wickan elders to open a magic gateway allowed the soldiers and children to escape.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 5, US HC p.224-225
The Wickan children led the soldiers to the sacred Golden Hills where they were joined by teen sorcerers and veterans of the Chain of Dogs, Nil and Nether. They revealed that one of the rescued children was Coltaine reborn, and they were determined to take advantage of the chaos Malazan civil war to invade Unta province and force a renegotiation of the Wickan treaties. A moved Rillish joined them as their military adviser and Chord followed.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 3, US HC p.328-334 
After sacking D'Avig and Fortress Jurda, Nil and Nether decided they instead needed to make a more notable and lasting effort to strengthen their bargaining position.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 4, US HC p.373Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 5, US HC p.426/474 Leaving Chord behind, Nil, Nether, Rillish and a force of one thousand Wickans travelled by warren to Li Heng where they proved to be the decisive factor in the Empire's victory over the Crimson Guard at the Battle of the Plains.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 3 Chapter 2, US HC p.575/617 Afterwards, it was unclear what Chord's status within the Malazan military was.
==Notes and references==
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