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Hello, I'm currently midway to the book and there's something that I don't understand.
Why Malaz soldiers are going against Tiste Edur? I know that they cannot stay at Malaz but I think I miss their motive to invade Lether continent.
Thanks!
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Around 50% in, something I don't understand (spoilers)
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Mercador, on 13 October 2026 - 09:34 PM, said:
Hello, I'm currently midway to the book and there's something that I don't understand.
Why Malaz soldiers are going against Tiste Edur? I know that they cannot stay at Malaz but I think I miss their motive to invade Lether continent.
Thanks!
Why Malaz soldiers are going against Tiste Edur? I know that they cannot stay at Malaz but I think I miss their motive to invade Lether continent.
Thanks!
The Edur murdered and enslaved all the people in Sepik, which was a Malazan protectorate. The Bonehunters fleet discovers it in The Bonehunters, shortly afterwards (or before, I can't remember) their fleets pass by an Edur fleet. That's when Quick Ben does his Eres'al possessed Above Boat Float.
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....
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