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So what follows is an effort to do that. At first I tried to write it chronologically, but found it getting far too expansive. Instead I've organized it by groupings of characters and/or themes as appropriate. I've added a short list of what seem to me to be minor plots at the end. I will not be at all surprised if there are errors in my understanding of the text (I'm particularly unclear about the ending of Silverfox's story). I wrote the whole first draft from memory about two weeks after finishing the book and then briefly skimmed through to see if I'd missed anything major. I didn't want to page through to check details lest I add too much in the editing.
Please offer constructive criticism of this summary as well as the idea in general. Once y'all have helped me clear up the obvious mistakes (please especially check my description of the ending) and if the reception seems promising, I'll replace the very minimal summary on Wikipedia with this, and it can go on other sites as people want it to. If this seems a useful exercise, I will try to do the same for Deadhouse Gates and then the other books as I read them. Gardens of the Moon's summaries are generally better, I think.
Thanks.
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Dujek's 2nd army allegedly goes renegade with Whiskeyjack as second in command to join Anomander Rake and Caladan Brood to attack the cannibalistic and wantonly destructive Pannion Domin led by the Jaghut Pannion Seer.The White Face Barghast join as well after Trotts proves himself in single combat against the key chief's son, whose other children discover that the Barghast are descended from the T'lan Imass who didn't bind themselves to the Ritual of Tellann.
The first key battle is at Capustan where the Fener-worshipping Grey Swords stave off the brunt of the assault until Dujek and company arrive. Grey Sword Shield Anvil Itkovian takes the suffering of the tens of thousands of dead upon himself even though Fener's no longer available (after Deadhouse Gates) to relieve him, and the Grey Swords turn to the Barghast gods for new sponsorship. Caravan guard Gruntle becomes the Mortal Sword of Treach when his friend Stonny is raped and beaten at Capustan.
Toc the Younger emerges from the warren of chaos through a rent near Morn with the elder god Togg aboard to meet Onos T'oolan and Draconis's daughter Lady Envy and her pets, one of whom has the elder god and Togg's long-lost lover Fanderay aboard, and her Segulah swordsmen minions. Lady Envy's group attacks the Pannion from the south and drives the Seer to Coral, though not before Toc infiltrates the Pannion, earning torment by the Seer.
The Bridgeburners reach Coral first and blow their way into the city with Moranth help while Quick Ben with the Bonecaster Talamandas whom he rescues from a spirit trap and the support of Hood evades the Pannion poisoning of the warrens in order to trap the Seer. Whiskeyjack's lost in the battle when Kallor -- who as emperor tens of thousands of years earlier killed the whole population of a continent to preserve his legacy (the bodies form the imperial warren) -- betrays the attack when promised rank in the new House of Chains by the Crippled God, who is sponsoring the Pannion from behind the scenes. Anomander Rake submerges Moon's Spawn to crush the Pannion's redoubt in the end and Korlat, who has come to love Whiskeyjack, wreaks havoc on the Pannion forces.
The Mhybe -- Tattersail, Bellurdan, and Nightchill's host Silverfox's mother -- ages rapidly and thinks herself ruined when Silverfox appears not to love her, but Silverfox with Kruppe's help prepares the warren of Tellann -- seeded to fertility with Itkovian's memories before his body's failure of those killed at Capustan as well as the whole second Gathering of the T'lan Imass summoned by Silverfox-- to receive Togg and Fanderay as lords of the new beast warren.
The Pannion Seer turns out to have been driven to vengeance by his and his sister's entrapment when hidden by Tool's sister Kilava in the rift at Morn to protect them from Pran Chole's intended genocide of the Jaghut hundreds of thousands of years earlier. The seer uses the K'chain Che'malle Matron who was freed from the rift when he and his sister were put there to torture Toc and to generate K'chain soldiers. When Paran as Master of the Deck chooses mercy, Quick Ben helps free the Seer's sister from the rift. The Seer then cooperates in using his Omtose Phellack warren's ice to slow Burn's fiery destruction by the Crippled God. Togg returns Tool to the flesh in the body of the seer's soulless servant Anaster, as Toc Anaster.
Minor sideplots involve the Mott Irregulars, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach's necromancy and repeated drubbings by Quick Ben and the Bridgeburners,and the Segulah and Tool having to be repeatedly dissuaded from testing their prowess against one another by Lady Envy.
This post has been edited by Arlor: 18 December 2013 - 06:48 AM
