Malazan Empire: Holes in the Deck of Dragons - Malazan Empire

I'm posting this here because this is as good a place as any, although come MT we're probably going to be looking at a new way of sorting the panthion, and it won't be via the Fatio.

What I'm wondering is, all of the Houses have several positions unfilled. In several houses all but one position in empty. In fact, the only house even nearing completion is the newest one, House Chains.

This makes me think. Now, at one time or another all of these positions have been filled somehow. But are the rulers of the Houses just so lazy that each time a position gets vacated they don't bother to fill it again? Or are we just not being told who the, for instance, Queen of House Death is?

Talk amongst yourselves...

'"Simplifying matters." Oh wait til I tell him that one. Hey Rallick, you're not a man who kills people, you're a man who simplifies.'

Soldier, High House Light