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Chapter 7- Heboric tells himself he has no more delusions, he has drowned each one with his own hands. Felesin Younger tells him that Felesin (Sha'ik) is writing a poem - Call to Shadow. It's possible Whirlwind received it's power from a fragment of Shadow, like the flooded place. Leoman is still using durhang, though no one ever sees him do it, they just smell it( his addiction may be a sham) . Sha'Ik has adopted 3,000 children recently. Heboric, Karsa, and Leomen have fallen out of favor somewhat. Leomen and Karsa ask Heboric to help them watch Felesin Younger, who Bidithal - High Mage - is attempting to rape. Mallick Rel has been banished, along with Pully Alae. Sha'ik meets with everyone and they discuss the changes to the Deck recently. Sha'ik has a spy with Dujek, and she is shocked and cries when she finds out Ganoes Paran is alive. There is possibility of a "mutiny" within the Whirlwind. Also, Kamist Reloe is very fearful of QB and Kalam, and asks where they are numerous times.
Chapter 8 - The Malazan army is being, slowly, whipped into shape by Cuttle (sapper) and Strings. When the company is settled, Grub (the orphan put under Keneb's care by Duiker) walks in Tavore's footsteps, holding a bone. This is viewed as an omen - the child (tavore?) leads them to there deaths. Strings says they must embrace the omen to destroy it. Tavore is sleeping with a woman, T'amber. Lostara Yil was captured as a young girl, and forced into the cult of Rashan until it was destroyed by the Malazans. Cotillion visits her, asks her for help. He says the game he is playing is much bigger than the Malazan empire, but that he needs them to succeed right now. He also reveals he and ST have different plans. She and Pearl go to question Stormy, Gesler, and Truth about Felesin. They go to Silanda, which was made with parts from Drift Avalii, an island that moves and has magic properties. They're going to head to where the Silanda probably returned to this world, to find Felesin. 300 of the Wickan crow clan turn up to join the Malazans
Chapter 9 - Kalam buys two knives, blessed by Bellurdan, from the Chain of Dogs. Malazans are holed up in B'ridys, a fort under siege. Kalam goes to B'ridys and, as a guise, joins those fighting the Malazans. Sinn - mage, Irriz - captain. Captain Kindly, spoken of as the meanest in the Malazan army, is holed up inside. Kalam thinks he could "use a man like that". Sinn joins Kalam, wants revenge on a mage, Fayelle, who is with Mallick Rel. Soldiers from Kindly come down, in hiding, and Kalam gives them Sinn to take back with them. He summons an Azalan, given to him by Cotillion, to get Irriz up there. The Azalan kills all 500 besiegers in a matter of minutes. When Kalam gets up to the fort, he finds out Kindly is dead, and a man named Ebron is in charge. Kalam, tentatively, joins his squad.
Cutter and Aspalar are heading towards Drift Avalii, and their ship wrecks. Aspalar is missing, and Cutter gets sucked under the island, saved by an ancient Tiste Andii named Darist. Darist, and the Tiste Andii, are being assailed on the island. Their job is to protect the "true" throne of Shadow. Cutter's mission was to sneak on and see if the Tiste Edur had found this place, and are trying to take the Throne. Darist says he is the only one left, the Tiste Andii have lost.
Onrack and Trull try to figure out who the dogs are and who made them. They cast no shadow. Onrack says if the people made from the Warren of Shadow were just torn from those from Dark, were the Hounds of Shadow made from Hounds of Dark. No one has ever heard of that though. The Tiste Edur seek to piece the warren of Shadow back together. Only by doing that and sitting on the Throne can they rule the Hounds (and Shadow?) completely. Trull Sengar is against them, says they are no longer pure. Onrack breaks the two statues holding the souls of Hounds with his obsidian sword. These are Hounds of Darkness, in truth, and they attack Onrack so viciously that he is no longer T'Lan Imass - he cannot turn to dust, and, can (I'm assuming?) Die. In an effort to escape, Trull Sengar and Onrack blast open a gate with Moranth amunitions they've found. Four Tiste Liasin, servants of Osric- son of Father Light, come through and attack. They have been disconnected from this world for a long time. Four T'Lan Imass show up to kill Onrack, now that he has "failed the ritual" he must die. They agree however to work together with the extremely cocky Tiste Liasin and the Tiste Edur to fashion a gate out of the Nascent. They will deal with Onrack once they are out.
Chapter 10- Karsa has carved images of his two fallen brethren in a grove filled with snakes, as well as the faces of the Seven. He says the Malazan are no longer his sworn enemies, since they fight for justice. Leoman has been given permission to start a scouting party. Sha'ik and council look at the changes in the deck, wondering what it means. Felesin Younger plans to travel with Heboric, back to the statue. Leoman tells Karsa to head to Jhag Odhan, a place outside the warren that has Jhag horses - big enough for him to ride. Karsa's gods come alive in their carvings, tell him he must go west for them and find what they desire so they can be free. Then, the statues of Bairoth Gild and Delum Thord awake, and they will follow him again as warleader.
Heboric meets with L'oric and they both want info from each other - L'oric on the new master, Heboric on the jade statues. The jade giants are aliens, invaders of this world, and the otataral is possibly contained around them - someone or something knowing when they would come and stopping them with otataral is another possibility. L'oric says, when Heboric mentions the CG, that he will tell him more of the statues, but it will reveal a lot about him. Frustrating fade away.
Korbolo Dom and Kamist Reloe meet. They have a master plan, involving Febryl killing Sha'ik, tavore killing Febryl, them killing Tavore, stopping the rebellion themselves, killing Laseen, then taking over the Empire and eliminating everyone but humans. Korbolo Dom says Mallick Rel is involved in this plan too.
Chapter 11 - Tavore, Duiker, and Tene Balarta go to see Coltaine's death site, which has tons of offerings at it. She realizes she will be in this man's shadow as she rides to Raraku. Fid and Gesler discuss their mages on the march, all of their warrens are Meneas. They're going to try and get them to work together on illusions. That night Topper, master of the Claw, appears to tell Tavore of the losses on Genebackis. Bottle eavesdrops, practicing an undetectable form of old magic. Bottle tells Fiddler the news and he grieves. While he is walking he runs into Temul, who is not being accepted as leader by his Wickans. Fid says to take their horses for a bit, let them run free, and make the wickans walk. That will humble them. Topper says the Empress has no faith in Tavore, but Tavoer is their only hope.
Chapter 12 - Cutter and Darist fight the Tiste Edur. Darist uses a sword, Grief, which was made by his brother who Cutter realizes is Anomander. Aspalar and some Tiste Andii that Andarist had ordered to hide (so they wouldn't be killed) join the fight and kill the invading Edur. The other TA are Anomander's grandchildren. Three Malazan ships were attacked by the Edur near the island, and now the malazans are also hiding on island. Cutter enlists the malazans to help fight the edur and the rope appears, killing many edur. All the Malazans but Traveller (possibly not Malazan?) are dead. Traveller takes Grief. Darist is dead as well.
Kalam checks out the well where Kindly supposedly died. There is a figure three times a man's height in the bottom, glowing, and it pulls him down trying to eat him. He stabs it and is spit out of the well. He thinks it was a demon, trapped there by the Nameless Ones when this was their monastery. Cord, Sinn, and the rest of the company leave to join Tavore, Kalam plans to march straight to the Whirlwind. The demon follows him out and tries to kill him, breaking his spine in the process, but Kalam overcomes and wins. The body in the well is Toblakai, and the spirit of the enkar'al the demon had possessed now returns to the toblakai's body. It wants to prove itself as champion to the Beast Throne, Togg and Fanderay. Iskaral Pust finds Kalam, who can walk again, and says the bag of diamonds Cotillion gave Kalam is for him. Pust's wife is Mogora, the spiders D'ivers.
Onrack explains to Trull that because Osric is lost, the Tiste Liosan are likely being deceived. They are warrior-priests of, likely, someone under the guide of Osseric and they do not know, an old god probably, who required spilled blood for power. The ritual to create a gate is completed and Trull cuts his hand to power it. Onrack pledges his life to Trull, and they escape the Nascent. The other T'Lan Imass went into the warren of the Tiste Liosan to, according to Onrack, kill the Liosan god.
Lostara Yil and Pearl are going through the Imperial Warren and come across bones of warriors buried in ash. There's a portal out in the pit and as they venture in it gets too dangerous. Pearl shines a light up and there is a huge dragon crucified, it's aspect is otataral. The dragon is still alive, but in it's own pocket warren, likely blocking something's entrance. Whoever chained it here is probably who created the portal in the pit. The portal is Tiste Liosan, and when they go in there is fire, and the tracks of dragons, plus a pillar containing names of those who chained the dragon. A T'Lan Imass head, Olar Shayn, is there. He tells Pearl he entered the warren to kill a false god, and he has done so. They go back to the normal world and Pearl leaves the head on a ledge, giving him a view.
Chapter 13: Sha'ik sends Leoman out and, when Korbolo Dom says Leoman will disobey her orders and attack, she says she knows. Sha'ik is concerned. The Whirlwind and the Adjunct's otataral sword will effectively cancel each other, she wants a way to beat otataral, asks Heboric to understand how the jade statue is doing it. Bidithal wants to use the Whirlwind to cleanse Shadow of it's rulers. The former slaver of Karsa tricks Felesin Younger to go to where Bidithal is waiting, who promises to make her a "river barren" of emotion. The slaver laughs at her cries. She crawls to the glade that Karsa made, and from what it describes it seems she has had her clitoris removed (which Bidithal has done to many girls, and which he will make a rite of passage when he is High Priest). Karsa's gods offer her an alliance, if she will kill Bidithal.
Elsewhere L'oric mourns the death of his familiar, who was killed by the T'Lan Imass in the Liosan Warren. L'oric is son of Osric, and calls upon the Queen of Dreams for help. She says she will find a protecter of Liosan for him, but he won't like who it is.
There are thousands of jade statues being thrown through space into this huge gash in Heboric's vision, the tear that brought the CG to their world. The statues, he suspects, are either the CG's army, or an army after him. Inside is statue are thousands of people, prisoners. He gets sucked in one, and two people, Cassa and Leandris ask him about what god controls his hand. When he wakes up back in his tent, the otataral is gone from his body, the jade remains, and now streaks of black. He can see in the night.
Chapter 14: Karsa is warned by a wolf D'ivers not to cross two travelers or the world will regret it. Karsa meets the two travelers, Mappo and Icarium, and apparently Icarium knows all about him and has chosen to fight him. He breaks Karsa's sword, and knocks him out. They leave him knocked out and when he awakens he sees Icarium had unearthed a seven headed dog statue. Delum Thord leads Karsa on a path through the dreamworld, which will make his trip much quicker. A T'Lan Imass army had last travelled this ghost world (warren of Tellan?) after a Jaghut woman who Karsa meets. She promises to tell him of the Jaghs and give him a horse, her name is Aramala. Karsa reaches Jhag Odan where the weapons of his gods are. He releases them, and addresses them as T'Lan Imass. They tell him to make himself a weapon, which he does, seemingly putting the souls of Bairoth and Delum in it. They tell him he will be the eight god, and he calls them the Unbound and says he can never be unbound. But, he is in the House of Chains, the CG's champion, though he seems to have a plan of his own going...
Chapter 15: Gall of the Burned Tears, a clan that rode under Coltaine, comes, swearing their allegiance to Temul. 3,000 veterans of the desert have joined the cause. Keneb tells fist Gamet that Kalam is in Seven Cities. Strings thinks about giving up and Gesler confronts him telling him the only thing for a soldier to do is soldier. He goes to where Nether and Nil are, and the spirit of Sormo E'nath tells him he must go to Raraku, for the song, and that someone waits for him there. Nil and Nether cry that Sormo did not talk to them. They get to a river, flowing with blood, animals slaughtered by local tribes as a blessing. Tavore send sappers to create a more safe crossing, and representatives to the tribes to tell them she means no insult. They are unsure if Sha'ik will send the Whirlwind to them, making them battle wearied but (somewhat) veteraned when they arrive, or if she will let them come in clean, but without experience.
Chapter 16: Pust gives Kalam some diamonds back, and they leave to breach Raraku. The azalan demon runs in and back out, hiding Kalam.
Cotillion mourns the death of one of the Malazan women, revealing she was a Talon he thought dead. He takes the talon necklace off her and gives it to Cutter, telling him that they're going to find the Head of the Talon and kill him. Cutter heads towards the Edur ship. ST shows up and talks to Cotillion. They are nervous about Traveller being here, and ST says they need to discuss things a lot. Cotillion says they must kill the Talons. Aspalar tells Cutter that Dancer knew Traveller, he was around before even Surly.
Lostara and Pearl look at Baudin's body and think that Hood himself came here to take his soul. They realize Felesin and Heboric are likely in Raraku.
Onrack and Trull contemplate what they will do. Onrack wants to join the other clanless, and thinks the two T'Lan Imass following him will wait to kill him till they arrive.
The Tiste Liosan camp close by, ready to find the "thieves of the Fire". For help they will rely on an old friend of the Liosan, Icarium.
Chapter 17: Karsa finishes his sword and the I'mass "gods" of the Teblor tell him that the CG is a new, third force in the war between order and dissolution, who asks followers to worship imperfection. Karsa tells the I'mass they are not gods, a god takes the burden of his followers, and the CG is not a god either. He cuts Siballe and sends the rest away. On his way out of the cave he knocks over Onrack and Trull. Trull is knocked out and when he awakes Onrack is in a multicolored fire in the cave. He falls, and when he awakens, Onrack tells him they must pursue the other I'mass. Karsa meets with Cynnigig, a Jaghut sent by Aramala. He will take Karsa to someone who can summon the horses. The next day they go and meet the Jaghut woman, Phyrls, who appears as a tree with spider webs everywhere. She calls the horses, who live longer from her blood, and Karsa picks one, naming him Havok. Unbeknownst to Karsa, Phyrls is alive there because there used to be an Azath house here. It was here that Icarium tried to break in and free his father, shattering a Warren.
Chapter 18: Sha'ik studies the battleground that she wants to fight on, thinking it will give her every military advantage. They discuss that their are two types of military leaders: hot iron and cold iron. Cold beats hot most of the time, and Sha'ik shivers because she knows Tavore is cold. She is told there are two of the Whirlwind that are cold too: Karsa and Leoman.
Leoman has rescued a man, Corabb, who is incredibly loyal to him. Felesin Younger and L'oric discuss the upcoming battle, and betrayal, and note that Leoman is their only hope. Sha'ik goes to see Heboric, who has made his tent a shrine to Treach. When she enters, Sha'ik is removed from her, and she is Felesin. She voices concern for Felesin Younger and Heboric pushes her out, telling her to focus on the upcoming battles. When she exits, she forgets their conversation, and a shadowy figure runs out of the tent behind her, unseen. Bidithal prepares himself, wondering why the usurpers of Sha'ik want the Warren of Shadow. Korbolo Dom has 11 assassins from his army that will be his servants. He meets with Kamist Reloe, who tells Dom he is fearful Sha'ik has let a Claw into Raraku to kill them. The woman Dom is sleeping with has drugged him, and she slips out when he is asleep to find her master, a master that has made her immune to feeling emotion. Heboric has become Destriant to Treach, and plans to kill Bidithal. Leoman has engaged the Malazans, and Corabb barely escapes a group of crossbowmen with his life. Febryl sits at the dawn, contemplating his betrayal of Sha'ik and she appears next to him and makes spoken everything he was thinking (though not explicitly mentioning the betrayal), suggesting to him that she knows his thoughts.
Chapter 19: Tavore and Gamet are concerned that Leoman is destroying their supplies, they will send out the marines to deal with it. Fiddler has been organizing a three-way scorpion battle for morale. Gamet informs him of the plan. Fiddler's scorpion splits in two and kills the other ones, making him the winner of a large bet against him. Corrab and Leoman wait, leoman is fearful of the empress and tavore, since the empress chose her. They have set a trap for Leoman, making it appear they had no support. He attacks, and the trap is sprung, hidden soldiers coming from behind the barrows. Gamet gets blown back my a Moranth ammunition, and cannot control his legs. He thinks how these soldiers are too young to die for Tavore and Laseen. Leoman has been beaten back, but not defeated, and many Malazans are dead. Gamet resigns as a Fist, and Keneb will be given the title temporarily. Leoman tells Corrab to send a rider to Sha'ik saying he will be back three days before the Malazans get there, and that he no longer trusts Dom's military preparations.
Chapter 20: Crokus and Aspalar are on the ship and Aspalar states it has some sort of power, like a temple, but that blood does not desecrate it. As they prepare to leave they see Traveller standing with the Tiste Andii and Malazans on Drift Avalii. Crokus and Aspalar discuss how Dancer and Kellanved were gone for two years, before Laseen killed them. No one knows where they were, not a warren, somewhere on a trail having to do with the Azath. Pearl and Lostara Yil realize who Sha'ik must be.
Kalam continues through the desert and passes a group of 600 ghost soldiers, who are singing a version of his song. They talk of the seven protectors, and the Nameless One. They also speak of Dessimbelackis, the D'ivers. A Tanno seneschal appears and tells Kalam to listen to them. Then he passes a group of Pardu who are killed by, what appears to be, the two Hounds of Dark. Kalam summons his last five azalan, and they are beaten as he flees. ST sits on his throne, his mind racing.
Cutter and Aspalar land in seven cities, and are greeted by Pust.
Chapter 21: Febryl thinks of his past service to Falah'd, when the Malazans invaded he had to burn all the texts and crucifying scholars so the Malazans did not gain the knowledge. His parents were repelled by this and he killed them too, which made them look old. He discusses with Kamist Reloe that the ruins of Raraku used to be the T'Lan Imass empire, Sha'ik could be a T'lan Imass spirit
L'oric senses something bestial, powerful, and ancient approaching, with the whisper of a song. He goes to Karsa's grove and finds the spirits are gone. They left a trail, and he tries to follow it into the Tellan Warren, but ends up in Raraku's ancient memory. The Hounds of Dark run there, all seven, with ape-like T'Lan Imass following. As he is about to be killed, when a dragon comes and picks him up. The dragon is Osric, who tells his son he wants to remain lost. Osric tells him something is about to happen in this memory, and that the memory itself is fading. Osric takes L'oric to find a new familiar, and he takes a demon named Greyfog. They return to Raraku. Felesin will leave asap, and L'oric will send Greyfog with her. He wants to stay behind and witness the convergence of power. L'oric tells Heboric to leave with Felesin soon.
Sha'ik is scared of the upcoming battle. Bidithal warns her that Heboric has become Destriant to Treach. Febryl approaches Bidithal afterwards and convinces Bidithal to work with him. Scillara tries to go spy, but a guard says Febryl is sick of her spying, and attempts to rape her. She kills him, and another guard comes, who Heboric kills, and then force-heals Scillara, placing her in his temple.
Leoman and Corabb have wearied from fighting and head back into the Whirlwind. Karsa is near Raraku, and Siballe tells him he is the Knight of Chains. Karsa says the CG has much to answer for and says he will break the god's chains, then kill him.
Chapter 22: Bottle tries a divination, and determines that the Rope is too close to Raraku. This makes Fiddler realize Kalam is here to kill someone. Gamet had been wandering around near the Whirlwind Wall waiting for death. Baralta convinces Gamet to be a Fist again. The goddess let's the Whirlwind wall down. They ride in.
Chapter 23: Mogora cooks for Aspalar and Cutter, and Cutter pokes at their conflict. Aspalar has decided where to go next. Trull, Ibra Gholan, Onrack, and Monok will travel Tellan to the First Throne, to defend it. Lostara Yil and Pearl continue towards Raraku, Lostara telling Pearl that just because they hooked up does not mean they will have a relationship. He plans to go in the camp, and Lostara knocks him unconcious. She hides from a group of riders, who Lostara identifies as part of the Malazan Ashok Regiment, which she assumed no longer existed. Cotillion comes and speaks to her, she references him having recruited him earlier and thought Pearl would get in the way. He thinks otherwise, and tells her to wake him before tomorrow night. She gives him a small object she had found in the desert, and he says he knows who it belongs to and that it shouldn't bother her to give it to him. She doubts the latter.
Aspalar meets with Cotillion and asks him not to do to Cutter what he did to her. She thinks Cutter loves Aspalar, while the fisher-girl inside her loves who Crokus was. She says she does not want Cutter to die, and so Cotillion tells her she knows what she must do.
Kalam waits in Karsa's grove, and an acorn falls from an oak. He laughs. Sengar and Monok continue their travel, and when they're about to use the gate, an Eres witch appears. They travel, and Trull is unconcious, with the Eres having stolen his seed. Panek greets them on a demon, and when Monok asks who sent him Panek replies that she is in the inner-ward. They proceed there.
Chapter 24: Gamet is summoned by Tavore, who is with Nil and Nether. she asks him to spill some of his blood and when he does, Nil and Nether confirm her suspicion of the ghosts of the land resisting Raraku. He hears singing as he leaves. Fiddler sits in pain from the song, and Bottle uses magic to go into his blood, where he speaks to an Erel witch. Fiddler wonders if this will be his last battle. Corrab sees shamans proclaiming there are armies coming, more armies, the Wickan dogs. He rides on towards Sha'ik. Sha'ik observes Nil and Nether's ritual from afar and tells her people they need Leoman. Heboric and Scillara hear the song, and two of Dom's assassins come to kill Heboric. He kills them, and is then hit by three crossbow bolts. Scillara flees, and three assassins come over Heboric. There are ghosts there, and the assassins try to banish them in the name of Hood. The ghosts kill the assassins then retreat until the morning. Scillara returns and takes Heboric to his tent to heal. L'oric meets with Sha'ik who tells him to relieve Dom of his command. He goes to do so, and Dom implies he will win the battle for Tavore rather than lose command of the Dogslayers. L'oric says Sha'ik will kill him, and he is stabbed in the back, though his warren defenses will ensure he doesn't die. Greyfog tells Felesin he must leave, his brother needs him. Scillara and Felesin speak of Heboric. Elsewhere, the Tiste Liosan look at the encampment. Jorrude tells them they will kill the intruders at dawn, and they hide as Karsa, with a thousand souls behind him, rides past.
Chapter 25: Febryl awaits the convergence of power, noting that hood is near. L'oric has been dragged to the side of the tent and left for dead. Dom gives out his orders. An assassin of Dom's attacks Scillara and Felesin, but Karsa kills them. The assassin, Kenesal, awakes at Hood's gate with his four riders. Mathok goes to get the Book of Dryjhna. Kalam tucks the acorn into his sash and goes towards camp. He finds a group of Talons and kills them all, then heads to Bidithal. He explains the House of Chains wants this desert as it's own. Kalam talks of the Hounds coming, and Bidithal says the CG wants them. He escapes and shadowy wraiths attack Kalam. Cotillion helps him survive the attack.
Karsa comes across Bidithal's temple and kills Silgar, who has crawled outside. Corabb tells Leoman that Sha'ik wants him to take over. Kalam fights a Pardu assassin. The assassin asks if Kalam remembers him and when Kalam kills him he replies he does not. Reloe and two other assassins approach and Kalam throws the acorn at them, releasing QB. He kills Relo and they move on to Dom, tying him up,
Bidithal moves towards Sha'ik's temple. Karsa find him and rips Bidithal's genitals off, shoving them in Bidithal's throat as he dies. Bidithal finds himself before Hood's gate. Gamet lies on his cot, and blacks out. When he awakens he is in armor with Nil, Nether and Grub who join the ghost army and attack the Dogslayers. One of the riders, a dark-skinned woman, invites Gamet to come with her, and he does, bidding Tavore goodbye in his head.
Two howls are heard as the Hounds of Dark arrive. Mathok and Leoman meet, and Mathok tells him that Raraku has awoken. Kalam explains the song to QB, and QB says the Bridgeburners have ascended.
Greyfog meets with Heboric and leads him to L'oric who is reading the Deck. He asks Heboric to take Felesin and leave with Greyfog. Karsa catches up with the Hounds, and kills them with the help of Leoman, who then asks for Karsa's help.
Pearl is knocked over by Kalam, just as he has awoken and was heading out of the oasis. They banter, and Kalam drops Dom off and leaves.
Chapter 26: At dawn, Sha'ik rises and rides to the basin to challenge Tavore. L'oric learns the Dogslayers are dead and that Sha'ik, the goddess herself, has almost arrived. He goes into a warren. Sha'ik is there, walking towards Raraku. She thinks of the minute who betrayed her, painting Kilava's image and loving her instead, and thinks of how much she longs to kill again. Tavore gets ready to fight, and learns of Gamet's death in his sleep. Korbolo's assassins arrive and kill Sha'ik, and L'oric is stabbed. Osric saves him and they speak of returning to their palace, where they have not been in 1000 years. Felesin feels Sha'iks death, and is suddenly aware of herself again, just as Tavore approaches and kills her. Leoman falls over from the sight but Karsa catches him. Pearl and Lostara arrive and tell Tavore, veiling the truth of what just happened, that her sister is dead. They drop Dom, and Pearl takes Felesin's body. Nil and Nether explain the rising of the ghosts to Tavore, and that the Dogslayers are dead. Elsewhere, the marines are approached by the Tiste Liosan. Some Moranth munitions later, and the Liosan awake, and decide they should stop pursuing the intruders (Stormy, Gesler, Truth went through their warren following the dragon in DG) and instead focus on finding the dragon. First though, they will go home. The ghost of Hedge saves Fiddler from the explosions, and he, Kalam, and QB are reunited. Ranal is dead. Captain Kindly, ashok regiment, reports in to Tavore, and Sinn leads the 16 remaining ashok against the fleeing troops, killing Fayelle. The ancient sea of Raraku returns, filling the shattered warren. The Malazans are left on islands there.
Karsa rides away, and Heboric's group comes across Pust, who tells them L'oric is not dead. Cutter meets with Cotillion who tells him that he must protect and join Felesin Younger. He cries that Aspalar is gone, assuming she has gone to die. Karsa throws Siballe in the sea, freeing her soul.
Epilogue: Onrack's group meets with Kilava, and Trill tells her he must tell his story (which will be Midnight Tides) so she will trust him. Onrack senses the death of the T'Lan Imass Sha'ik, the one he had given his heart and then taken back, and Trull weeps.
This post has been edited by jobes2007: 26 December 2012 - 10:09 PM
