Onrack T'emlava

Onrack T'emlava, more commonly known as Onrack the Broken, was a clanless T'lan Imass of Logros.House of Chains Chapter 6 He had once been a Bonecaster but had relinquished that title to someone more gifted in the hidden arts. He was also a talented artist who used cave walls as his medium.
His mate was Kilava, though she was not his first. 
He carried a two-handed, curved obsidian sword with a black rippled blade.House of Chains, Chapter 6, UK MMPB p.323
==In Memories of Ice==
When Itkovian acted as Shield Anvil to the T'lan Imass at Coral, he was flooded with the memories of those who stood before him. One of those present remembered Onrack of the Logros, who was last seen kneeling in the street amidst the corpses of his clan. They had all been slain while finally breaking the Soletaken.Memories of Ice, Chapter 25, US SFBC p.908
==In House of Chains==
===Before the Ritual of Tellann===
In the time before the Ritual of Tellann, Onrack was the Bonecaster of his clan. He ultimately stepped down from this position and was replaced by Absin Tholai.House of Chains, Chapter 16 Onrack was also a talented artist, painting mostly on cave walls.
Onrack was wedded to the woman who would eventually become the Whirlwind Goddess. While adultery was fairly common amongst the tribes of the Imass, Onrack fell in love with Kilava Onass. Shortly before the Ritual of Tellann, he painted an image of her on a cave wall, an act which was considered a great crime as depictions of people were forbidden among the Imass. Onrack's wife led the tribe into denouncing Onrack and Kilava.
Onrack was to be banished for his deed before the call came for all the Imass to take part in the Ritual. Onrack accepted the accusations but Kilava murdered her entire clan, except for Onos T'oolan, on the night before the Ritual. That night, an unknown woman came to Onrack's cave and made love to him in the darkness. Afterwards, Onrack had found himself covered in a dried powder which he first took to be his paint, but later thought to be the dried blood of Kilava's kin. Kilava then disappeared, defying the call of the Ritual.House of Chains, Chapter 16, UK MMPB p.671-674
Onrack would himself have been exiled on the eve of the Ritual, but an alliance of four Jaghut Tyrants arose in the area and the exile never occurred. Onrack joined the Ritual of Tellann along with the rest of the Imass and became a T'lan Imass of the Logros. Meanwhile, he believed his painting of Kilava had captured a part of her soul and made her timeless--able to defy the Ritual.House of Chains, Chapter 16, UK MMPB p.674 Onracks' wife she carried her rage even unto undeath as a T'lan Imass. Her madness eventually defeated the Vow, forcing the other T'lan Imass of her tribe to shatter her body and imprison her in darkness within Raraku. The descendants of Onrack and Kilava and other Imass who did not take part in the Ritual would eventually become the first humans (See Author Comments below).House of Chains, Epilogue, US SFBC p.852House of Chains, Chapter 26, US SFBC p.821See Talk:Onrack T'emlava
During the time of the First Empire, the Logros T'lan Imass intervened when the humans attempted the Beast Ritual. The clans under Logros hunted and killed as many of the insane Soletaken and D'ivers as they could find. All the surviving members of Onrack's clan were destroyed in the fighting with the shapeshifters, leaving Onrack clanless.
===Pursuit of the Renegades===
Onrack was among the forces Logros sent in pursuit of renegade T'lan Imass, the Seven of the Dead Fires. A large group of T'lan Imass, including Onrack, were scattered in the Nascent by the sudden arrival of torrential water into the Warren fragment. Onrack was separated from the other T'lan Imass and unable to escape. 
In his explorations through the Nascent, he came upon and liberated the Shorn and chained Trull Sengar. The two continued traveling through the Nascent and later came upon the Nascent's enormous statues of the Deragoth. Noting that two of the statues were alive, Onrack destroyed one of the statues, which in turn caused the other to shatter and the two Deragoth emerged. The two Deragoth attacked Onrack and ripped off one of his arms before departing. Onrack had failed the Ritual due to the damage.
Onrack and Trull Sengar continued traveling through the Nascent to a nearby gateway into another Warren, Kurald Thyrllan. After they used Moranth munition to disrupt the wards guarding the gate, four Tiste Liosan, led by Jorrude, emerged from the gate. After an initially hostile encounter, the Liosan agreed to work with Onrack, Trull and four more recently-arrived T'lan Imass, including the clan leader Ibra Gholan and the Bonecaster Monok Ochem. The assembled groups worked together to fashion a ritual to open a portal to leave the Nascent. As the ritual was completed, Onrack swore his life to Trull Sengar and affirmed it using Trull's blood, while Ibra Gholan knocked the Liosan Seneschal unconscious. The T'lan Imass went into Kurald Thyrllan to kill the avatar of Osseric presiding within that Warren. Onrack and Trull returned to Seven Cities, as did the four Tiste Liosan.
Now in Seven Cities, Trull and Onrack continued pursuit of the renegade T'lan Imass. They first followed them to flint quarries on the northeast edge of the Jhag Odhan where they had a brief encounter with Karsa Orlong. Onrack used the dying fire made by Karsa in the nearby caves to attach to himself the arm of 'Siballe the Unfound, severed by Karsa a short time prior. Trull and Onrack then continued pursuing the renegades and, upon realizing the renegades' destination, awaited the pursuing Ibra Gholan and Monok Ochem to catch up. Through Monok Ochem, Onrack informed Logros that the renegades sought the First Throne to place a mortal Tiste Edur upon it as a pawn of the Crippled God. Logros accepted that Onrack was not a foe, and together Ibra Gholan, Monok Ochem, Onrack and Trull Sengar traveled through the Warren of Tellann to the First Throne. At the First Throne they met Panek, Apt and Minala and joined their defense of the First Throne.
==In Midnight Tides==
The torrential floods that had scattered Onrack and the other T'lan Imass in the Nascent was revealed to have been caused by Rhulad Sengar when striking an alliance with the Kenryll'ah.Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, UK MMPB p.767/770/771
==In The Bonehunters==
The defenders of the First Throne faced numerous assaults from the Crippled God's allies, the Tiste Edur. Half of Onrack's skull had been shorn away in the attacks, along with his left upper hip and a few ribs.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.694 Onrack and Ibra Gholan took turns guarding the natural chokepoint in the passage leading to the throne room while Monok Ochem kept his power hidden lest the Edur attack in greater force.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.692/694 The children, Steth and Aystar, made a game of attempting to sneak up him as their favourite sentinel performed his duty. The T'lan Imass never failed to hear their breathing and disappoint them.The Bonehunters, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.962
When Cotillion came to check on their status, Onrack asked why the god chose to waste his followers on a doomed defense. Monok Ochem complained that Onrack thought like an Unbound and fought only for his friend Trull, not to defend the Throne. Onrack agreed, saying he was now free to make his own choices and that Trull had taught him the nobility of fighting for a worthy cause. When the Bonecaster rejected Cotillion's request for T'lan Imass reinforcements because the clans were busy fighting in Assail, Onrack criticised his people's need to believe in their own supreme efficiency—to choose oblivion rather than see themselves bested in combat. Monok Ochem had to command him to silence when he seemed on the verge of divulging some detail to Cotillion about restoring the Throne's power.The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.696-697
Among the new emotions Onrack felt was impatience and anger. Their reawakening confirmed for him his sobriquet "The Broken". He was eager for the next attack and warned Trull he was tired of seeing friends fall. When the Edur came next, he would seek out their leader and they would face something few had ever seen—a T'lan Imass' terrible rage.The Bonehunters, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.752-754
Eventually, the Tiste Edur came in force. The warlock, Sathbaro Rangar, opened a gate for two hundred Edur warriors and sixty Letherii archers led by Kholb Harat and Saur Bathrada. They were also accompanied by Ahlrada Ahn as well as the Jhag champion Icarium and his companion, Taralack Veed.The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.813 The attack began when Steth was slain by an arrow to the head as he stood by Onrack's side. Monok Ochem veered into his Soletaken form and slew the warlock, but retreated when Icarium entered a rage. Onrack pushed through buffeting force of the Jhag's anger, identifying him as the Edur leader. The Jhag caught Onrack's first blow on his sword before breaking the T'lan Imass in his hands and crushing his body against the stone passage. Only the arrival of the Eres'al ended Icarium's attack and rescued the defenders. The healing light of her departure mended Onrack's body "more or less."The Bonehunters, Chapter 24, US SFBC p.962-969/976
==In Reaper's Gale==
Cotillion brought Onrack, Trull, Quick Ben, and the other survivors of the defence of the First Throne to Shadow to recuperate. The god informed Quick Ben he was free to depart with Trull and Onrack, giving them access to a gate out of Shadow across a lake. But he warned that reality on the other side of the gate remained unresolved until they passed through. The nature of their destination would be determined by themselves. Trull demanded Cotillion summon Shadowthrone to provide a better explanation of what awaited them, but Ammanas was no more help.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US HC p.188-192 
Onrack, Trull, and Quick Ben travelled together by boat across the lake of Shadow until the water grew too shallow. They continued on wading through the water, engaged in conversation where Onrack revealed that Trull had risen to become the Knight of Shadow. At first Trull was angered by Cotillion's presumption, and Onrack momentarily considered whehter the Eres'al was responsible. But ultimately the T'lan Imass concluded that Trull had earned the rank by standing up to Icarium and surviving, something no warrior had ever done.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 10, US HC p.255-258 Soon they realised they were being stalked by giant N'purel fish and Quick Ben was forced to hurriedly open a gate that brought them to a realm of tundra. There the Ritual's hold on Onrack loosened. He became burly and muscled with smooth and wind-burnished skin. His eyes, now small, green, and glittering, were buried within epicanthic folds beneath a heavy brow ridge on a heavy, broadly featured face. His oft-broken nose became broad and flat, and his voice took on a low reverbation. He had become a flesh and blood mortal Imass once more and the transformation moved Trull to tears. In wonder, Onrack identified the place as Tellann.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12, US HC p.316-319
Onrack journeyed from the Shadow Realm to the Refugium along with Quick Ben and Trull. Upon crossing the borders of the dreamworld, the Rituals hold on Onrack loosened and he was returned to mortality.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 12 They were met by Hedge, who along with Quick stayed behind to hold off Menandore, Sheltatha Lore and Sukul Ankhadu.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18Reaper's Gale, Chapter 20
Their arrival coincided with that of Silchas Ruin, Clip, Fear, Udinaas, Seren Pedac and Kettle. Onrack saw Fear cut down from behind by Clip and witnessed Trull's duel with Ruin. Onrack was knocked out before he could intervene.
Onrack was re-united with Kilava and found out that he had a son by her, Ulshun Pral.
==In Dust of Dreams==
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==In The Crippled God==
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==Author comments==
Steven Erikson has clarified that the Whirlwind Goddess' vow to seek vengeance against the human children who were Kilava and Onrack's beget does not refer specifically to blood relatives but to the younger race that inherited the Imass' world.Critical Conversations 01: House of Chains Chap 26 with Steven Erikson - See 1:03:30
==Personality and traits==
==Fan art gallery==
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==Notes and references==
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