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Paran and Topper

#1 motherofdragons

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 05:29 AM

Apologies if this has been asked before, but I just finished Gardens and had a question. When Topper and Paran entered the Imperial Warrren, Paran saw something that made Topper nervous but was never explained. Here's the passage:

"On a number of occasions they came upon places where the ash embankments had been disturbed, as if by the passage of something large, shambling; and wide, slithery trails led off into the gloom. In one such place they found a dark encrusted stain and the scatter of chain links like coins in the dust."

So yeah. What was that?

#2 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 05:40 AM

The Imperial Warren and its realm doesn't exclusively belong to the Malazans. In fact, their "nominal control" of it is in name only. There's a reason no one else uses it: it's dangerous.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....