Ebron

Ebron was born in Karakarang.House of Chains, Chapter 12, UK MMPB p.539 He was a squad mage for the 5th squad, 2nd Company of the Ashok Regiment.House of Chains, Dramatis Personae 
He had access to the warrens of RuseHouse of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.137 and Rashan.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 3
==In House of Chains==
Ebron was stationed with the Ashok Regiment under Captain Kindly in Silver Lake on Genabackis. When the rampaging Teblor, Karsa Orlong, attacked his garrison, Ebron released and armed Sergeant Cord and others in their squad who were under house arrest for drunkeness. It was Ebron's "fire net" which finally brought down Karsa, allowing the regiment to take him prisoner. The net was apparently a reshaping of a Ruse spell normally used to stun and capture enormous dhenrabi, and Ebron "near wet my pants" when Karsa largely shrugged off the nastiest spell he had.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.133-136
The Ashok Regiment returned to Seven Cities in time to be caught up in the Whirlwind rebellion. Fifty-one soldiers of the 2nd Company barricaded themselves inside the cliffside fortress B'ridys where they were besieged by the renegade Irriz and over 500 rebels.House of Chains, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.349-351/361
Kalam Mekhar broke the siege and suggested the regiment join Adjunct Tavore Paran's Malaz 14th Army, which was marching toward Raraku. In the aftermath of the Battle of Raraku, the regiment's 16 survivors ambushed and slew the sorceress, Fayelle, and a small band of Dogslayers. Ebron used his magic to fill their horses' spirits with fire as they fled the onrushing waters that flooded Raraku.House of Chains, Chapter 26, US SFBC p.842-844
==In The Bonehunters==
After the Battle of Raraku, the Ashok Regiment was incorporated into the 9th Company of the 8th Legion within the Malaz 14th Army. Cord's 5th squad remained intact although it was redesignated as the 7th squad.Reaper's Gale, Dramatis Personae Ebron still referred to his new squad as the Ashok Regiment.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.283
Leoman led the Army of the Apocalypse westward to Y'Ghatan and the 14th Army followed. Adjunct Tavore launched the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan by sending the army's sappers to breach the city's wall under the cover of night. Before the operation, Ebron sought out Bottle, the mage working with Crump that night, to warn him that the 7th squad sappers was "dangerous". First into the city were the Malazan marines, followed quickly by the Heavy infantry. Fist Keneb then ordered Cord to lead the 9th Company's seventh through twelfth medium infantry squads into Y'Ghatan.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.291-292 Once inside the city, the Malazans immediately came under heavy attack by hidden swordsmen and archers. Cord's squad linked up with Mosel's heavy infantry following Fiddler's marines.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.292-297
When enough Malazans were engaged in street fighting inside the city, Leoman sprung his trap. The city's olive oil-soaked buildings were set alight and the streets quickly became an inferno. Cord's squad fled the flames along with a mixed group of survivors from Sobelone's, Balm's, Fiddler's, Hellian's, and Gesler's squads. In the fighting that followed, Ebron teamed with Bottle to protect the group from Leoman's fanatics as the heat had forced the soldiers to cast away much of their metal armour and weaponry. Ebron cast waves of poisonous, billowing, argent smoke over their attackers, blackening their skin and curling their flesh off their bones.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.311/318-319 
Ebron was among the small group of soldiers who survived Y'Ghatan by tunneling their way out from under the city. They spent three days crawling on their hands and knees through the dark led by Bottle and his rat.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.368/370 Unaware that any had survived, the 14th Army made haste for the Kokakal Sea to embark on Admiral Nok's ships and escape the Bluetongue Plague ravaging Seven Cities. Faradan Sort and Sinn remained behind and discovered the survivors as they crawled from the wreckage.The Bonehunters, Chapter 7 Ebron and the others made the long march west, finally catching up to the army on the coast.The Bonehunters, Chapter 16 Nok's fleet returned the army to Malaz City where the Adjunct met with Empress Laseen.The Bonehunters, Chapter 24
==In Reaper's Gale==
Adjunct Tavore clashed with Empress Laseen at Malaz City and took the Bonehunters rogue, following the Tiste Edur fleet that had ravaged Sepik back to Lether to invade the Letherii Empire.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.356 Cord and Balm's squads took the Silanda to the island of Second Maiden Fort off the coast of Lether to establish a headquarters and resupply base for the Adjunct.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.353Reaper's Gale, Chapter 14, US HC p.409 They found the island on the verge of being destroyed under a mountain of ice. While unaware the ice originated with Gothos, Ebron correctly surmised it to be from a dying Jaghut ritual. Sinn was able to fend off the ice of Omtose Phellack with her magic until its force was spent, but Ebron had no idea how she did it, delivering a bad jolt to his confidence in his own abilities. He said Sinn was not merely holding the ice back, but killing the Jaghut magic that fueled it by weaving its threads into something else.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.369-370 Shard saw him make warding signs at Sinn's back whenever she came too close to the mage.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.469
After they saved the island, its self-declared ruler, Brullyg, gratefully welcomed the Malazans as royal guests until they placed him under house arrest and secretly took control of the island.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.348 While Balm's squad kept Brullyg under guard and monitored the island from its only town, Cord's squad patrolled the island's coast and interior while awaiting Tavore's arrival.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 13, US HC p.345-350/358Reaper's Gale, Chapter 16, US HC p.468 
Meanwhile Tavore sent Fist Keneb's marines to the mainland, spreading them in isolated pairs of squads across thirty leagues of coast and burning their transport vessels behind them. 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
Shurq Elalle and her ship, Undying Gratitude, were caught up in the Malazan blockade of Second Maiden Fort's port. When Adjunct Tavore arrived with the rest of the Malazan fleet, she hired the pirate to guide them to the mouth of the Lether River leading to Letheras.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.613 Cord and Balm's squads made the journey on the Silanda. Ebron and the other squad members killed time on deck trying to cheat Crump in games of Bones. The mage complained that the sapper's luck was uncanny, defying even his attempts to sway the bones and scull with magic. He concluded Crump might really be a member of the legendary mage-hunting Bole brothers as he claimed. Ebron told Cord that Crump had already won more than three hundred imperial jakatas in the game that was rigged against him.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20, US HC p.612-613
The Adjunct's fleet made landfall near Letheras and defeated the city's Imperial Brigade.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 22, US HC p.693-694Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.748-754Reaper's Gale, Chapter 17, US HC p.501 Meanwhile, Keneb's marines secretly entered the city to secure its western gate to allow the rest of the army entrance.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.779/800 Soon the City Garrison surrendered and the city fell.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 24, US HC p.812
==In Dust of Dreams==
Ebron was killed during the encounter with the K'Chain Nah'ruk. A sorcerous bolt tore through him and disintegrated the upper half of his body.Dust of Dreams, Chapter 23, UK HB p.841
==Notes and references==
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