Bastion

Bastion was a small city on the frontier of the Pannion Domin in central Genabackis southwest of Coral near the Godswalk Mountains. It was located on a shrinking and formerly freshwater inland sea that had become so salty over the past generation that no sailor could drown in it.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.408 The receding waters left the city's stilted docks high and dry above struggling weeds. The only fish to be found in the sea were enormous eels with the jaws of wolves. 
Squat walls surrounded the city's characteristic dull-faced, block-like, tiered buildings with shuttered windows.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.409 Public buildings were peculiarly utilitarian as if the culture were singularly devoid of creative flair. The wooden doors of the wall's main arched gate opened onto a wide thoroughfare lined by tenements with shops on their ground level floors.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.409/410 Eventually the road led to an expansive round whose opposite end was dominated by an imposing temple.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.414 Just outside the city walls were a mix of shanties and hovels.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.407 
Strangers were not welcome.
Heath was two days travel by road to the east.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 6, US SFBC p.228
==History==
Bastion was the first to adopt the Pannion faith when the Pannion Seer arrived in the city from the Mountain speaking the Words of Truth. Accepting the first Embrasure, the citizens murdered the entirety of a caravan from Elingarth that was encamped outside the city walls. Amidst the massacre, Anaster was conceived as the first of the Children of the Dead Seed.Memories of Ice, Chapter 9
==Notable Residents==
*Anaster
*Scintalla, author of Rise of the DominMemories of Ice, Chapter 10, Epigraph
==Streets==
*Iltara Avenue
==In Memories of Ice==
Bastion was the first city the traveling companions, Lady Envy, Tool, Toc the Younger, Garath, Baaljagg, Mok, Thurule and Senu came across in their march on Pannion Domin-held territory. They were disgusted by the sight which greeted them as the whole town had been 'cleansed' as part of a second Embrasure. The farmlands outside the walls had been burned and the ground marred by great gouges. Burnt human bones littered the streets amidst fire charred buildings and the stink of death.
Anaster and his Tenescowri mob attacked the group, leading to a chaotic battle of steel, sorcery, and flesh. Toc the Younger took the opportunity to infiltrate the Tenescrowi as a way to safely cross Pannion territory and return to the Malazan Army at Capustan.
Seerdomin Kahlt maintained a temple near Bastion until he betrayed Envy and her party. He and his garrison were slain and their temple brought down in the violence that followed.Memories of Ice, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.332-338
==In Toll the Hounds==
After the Pannion War, it was known for kelyk, a pungent brew said to be growing in popularity in Black Coral.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 2 Gruntle led a caravan of eight wagons from Darujhistan to Bastion to purchase kelyk for the merchant, Sirik. The caravan was nearly destroyed by Dwell raiders during the return trip across the Dwelling Plain.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.90-91
Bastion was the centre of the cult of the Dying God.
The nomadic tyrant of the Lamatath Plain known as The Captain sent emissaries to Bastion and other cities bordering the plain to announce his claim to the territory.Toll the Hounds, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.287
==Notes and references==
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