The God is Not Willing/Prologue

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==Above Laederon Plateau, Northwest Genabackis, Teblor Territory==
Four Teblor on the ledge of an ice mountain look out over a gigantic frozen lake. They have traveled from the hidden settlements of the Laederon Plateau in search of what the Rathyd sighted, ice and water. The unexpected answer as to why the waters of the winter thaw had not reached the drought-ridden Teblor lands.
A Rathyd Warlord, Elade Tharos, accompanied by the Widowed Dayliss, Tonith Agra and Karak Thord, contemplate the disappearance of the eternal ice of the north, ice that has now become an inlet, still trapped between great walls of ice that are beginning to melt, and those waters threaten the world of all the Teblor.
Elade Tharos, the one who freed the Teblor from the slaver-children of the south, Warlord of the Sunyd and the Rathyd, is ready to help all the clans of the Teblor in a march towards the south following the trail of the Shattered God, Karsa Orlong. But Elade Tharos does not intend to take advantage of the flood so that the Teblor succeed in appropriating lands flooded with corpses of the inhabitants of the south, it will be the Teblor who will arrive before the water, first will be the fire.
Karak Thord and Tonith Agra kneel down and swear to follow the Warlord Elade Tharos, the only Rathyd who escaped from the sword of Karsa Orlong during his famous raid that culminated in the assault on Silver Lake.
But the Widowed Dayliss has reservations. She still believes that Karsa Orlong, the Shattered God, will come to lead the Teblor. Marching against the south would put them at war with the Malazan Empire, and not all the Teblor being so few would be able to defeat the southerners. Elade Tharos confirms that they are few but they will not be alone in the march to the south since all the peoples of the south are under a single flag, that of the Malazan Empire. The enemy will be only one, and the Empire is weak in Genabackis.
Despite her initial misgivings, the Widowed Dayliss swears to follow Elade Tharos. But before setting out on the return journey, at the so-called first council of war the Widowed Dayliss asks her companions to keep a secret--that they will not tell the other clans anything about the impending inundation, they will earn them speaking only of Glory and Blood. 
And so, with a secret, the four Teblor set off down the mountain.
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