Nekal Bara

Nekal Bara was Trate's resident sorceress. It was said that her power was a near rival to Ceda Kuru Qan's. She dressed in blue silks.Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, US SFBC p.497 She was considered one of the three most powerful mages of the North in Lether along with Enedictal and Arahathan.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.552
==In Midnight Tides==
Letherii king Ezgara Diskanar hoped to end the war with the Tiste Edur before it began by launching a pre-emptive attack on the Edur villages.Midnight Tides, Chapter 14, US SFBC p.430-431 Kuru Qan prepared a massive attack through a magic ritual to be launched from Kraig's Landing on the Edur frontier. Nekal, Arahathan, Enedictal, and their Mage cadres served as the focus of the ritual that sent a vast curtain of killing green fire beyond the mountains against four Tiste Edur villages where it was hoped the Edur armies might already have gathered. Seren Pedac warned against this full unveiling of their power, but her advice was ignored.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.552/553 
After the attack had been unleashed, Nekal slumped to her knees but her hair and clothes remained untouched by the wind that raged on all sides.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.555 Unfortunately for the Letherii, the Edur had already vacated those villages on the advice of Hull Beddict and were on their way south.Midnight Tides, Chapter 15, UK MMPB p.560-561 
Later, Edur fleets seized First Maiden Fort and Fent Reach before approaching Trate. Nekal positioned herself atop the city's lighthouse tower as their ships appeared in Trate Bay. The Edur were accompanied by the same enslaved ancient water spirit that had wrecked the Trate waterfront weeks before. Nekal had studied the creature and had been assigned to strike at it whilst Arahathan would be blocking its attack. She thought that killing the spirit would likely deplete them both but hoped that the six minor sorcerers under her command would be enough against the fleet.Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, UK MMPB p.601-603
Nekal was not overly worried about facing the spirit until she realised how enormous it was. The spirit attacked and Arahathan was swallowed by shadow. Nekal flung herself off the lighthouse which was crumbling and vanished within a shaft of magic. The coruscating threads of blue fire around a blinding, white core, pierced the flank of the spirit like a spear. Nekal felt Arahathan failing as she descended through layers and layers of the spirit only to find that it was only a shell held together by memory. However, within, she saw something terrible and knew she was about to die. She scrambled a link to Kuru Qan to enable him to see what she was facing.Midnight Tides, Chapter 16, UK MMPB p.605
==In Reaper's Gale==
When Adjunct Tavore Paran's Bonehunters invaded the Letherii Empire, Chancellor Triban Gnol regretted the Empire's loss of its mages of impressive power, such as Nekal Bara and Enedictal. All that remained to Lether were mages who were pale shadows and who had largely been supplanted by Hannan Mosag's K'risnan. The foreign Malazan enemy was deadly, using unknown magic to disguise their presence.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 18, US HC p.527
==Notes and references==
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