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15 feb 2011 · 4.51. 30,043 ratings1,543 reviews. The Bonehunters march for Kolanse, led by Adjunct Tavore. This woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, will challenge the gods - if her own mutinous troops don't kill her first.
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- In Gardens of the Moon
- In Memories of Ice
- In House of Chains
- In Midnight Tides
- In The Bonehunters
- In Reaper's Gale
"[He] knows naught but pain, and yearns only to share it, to visit it upon all that lives, all that exists."
―Description of the Crippled God
The Crippled God, the Chained One, The Shattered God, Fallen God, or Fallen One, was a majorly disfigured Ascendant who frequently came into conflict with the other gods and goddesses of the world. He could be considered the main antagonist of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
The Crippled God often appeared as a bent figure wrapped and hooded in rags or blankets, inhabiting a dilapidated, sunbleached tent along a sandy beach. He was usually found huddled over a smoking brazier, and spoke in raspy voice intermingled with hacking coughs and laboured breathing. He had long, tangled hair and his thin mangled hand appeared to have every one of its bones broken. His features were hidden in darkness beneath his hood. He was in constant agony and cast seeds into the brazier's coals to thicken the heady smoke.
Kruppe read an ancient tome in the study of the scholar Mammot that mentioned the Crippled God. The book detailed how the God was called to earth, crippled, and chained. In the process lands were sundered and things were born and released. A list of those gathered at the God's imprisonment included Hood and Dessembrae. The list was so absurdly long...
The Crippled God launched several assaults during this book.
He allied himself with the Pannion Seer to cause as much suffering as possible to the world and all its inhabitants.
Furthermore, he presented a dilemma to Caladan Brood. The Crippled God was kept bound to Burn's flesh by the Gods and other great powers of the Malazan world in events known as Chainings. But through these chains, the god infected her, poisoning her body like a virulent cancer and preventing her from awakening. Burn had long ago foreseen this attack and entered her sleeping state to focus her power into a hammer which she gave to Brood. Using the hammer to break the chains that bound them would stop the disease, but would unleash the Chained God's vengeance upon the world. At the same time, using the hammer would awaken the goddess and her resulting movements would trigger earthquakes and eruptions that would destroy every civilisation on the planet. Afterwards, the indifferent goddess would simply begin again and life would start over. On the other hand, if the Crippled God's infection was left unchecked and allowed to spread, Burn would die, and all life that dwelt upon her would die with her. Brood bided his time to make a decision.
The Chained One also sponsored the creation of High House Chains within the pantheon and the Deck of Dragons. This altered the Warrens making them poison to those not of the new House. He had been struck down by sorcery and so sought to destroy that weapon of his enemies. He first attempted to secure the services of Quick Ben, but was rebuffed. He then recruited Gethol as the Herald and Kallor as the High King of the new House.
In response to the formation of the new House, Ganoes Paran found himself chosen as the Master of the Deck. His role was to bless or deny the addition of the House of Chains to the Deck of Dragons. Many were pushing for denial, including Anomander Rake, Trake, and Hood, but a voice inside Paran demanded the opposite. Gruntle pointed out that the new House currently operated as it pleased outside the rules, but a sanctioned House would be bounded to the same rules as everyone else.
In exchange for accepting the position as High King, the Crippled God created an opportunity for Kallor to slay Silverfox. The attempt was thwarted by Whiskeyjack, and Kallor was extracted from the situation into the Crippled God's Warren.
The Crippled God had a number of schemes running simultaneously. Over four hundred years before the events of the main series, he approached the broken T'lan Imass known as The Seven Faces in the Rock. In return for their fealty and the breaking of their Vow, he offered them enough of his power to grant them limited freedom to leave their tomb. Afterwards, they were known as The Unbound.
Trull Sengar described how some unknown power had corrupted his people, the Tiste Edur, and directed them to gather the disparate fragments of Kurald Emurlahn in order to make the shattered warren whole once more. Part of this scheme required taking control of the Throne of Shadow to become master of that realm and control the Hounds of Shadow.
Within Shadow, Cotillion noted that the Hounds were agitated, and there were signs that his and Shadowthrone's claim to the warren was threatened by an unknown enemy. He enlisted Cutter, Apsalar, and Kalam Mekhar to run a number of errands to help protect his claim and identify their opponent.
The Tiste Edur, indirectly commanded by the Crippled God, attacked Drift Avalii where the Throne of Shadow was hidden. Their attacks were held back by the island's guardian, Darist, as well as a group of stray Malazans (amongst whom was Hawl) as well as Cutter, Apsalar, and Traveller. Cotillion himself battled the Edur to prevent the Throne's defenders from being overrun.
In an attempt to better understand the Jade giants, Heboric made an important discovery regarding the origin of the Crippled God. Using Hen'bara tea, the historian found himself amidst a sea of stars in The Abyss observing scores of the giants tumbling towards an enormous wound in space. Heboric soon awoke, certain that the Crippled God had been drawn through the same wound into the Malazan world and followed by the army of statues, either under his command or in his pursuit.
The Crippled God chose Karsa Orlong as his Knight of Chains, or Mortal Sword, within the House of Chains. The Teblor denied the position, despite the knowledge that the Seven had shaped him for the role for his whole life. It was unclear if this was his choice to make. A number of characters, including Silgar, 'Siballe the Unfound, and L'oric, referred to his title as fact even after his denial. Karsa offered to break the god's own chains and then kill him.
The Crippled God's tent could be found on the plain of a small island on an empty sea, barren but for occasional tufts of long, razor-sharp grass. The sky was a milky white and the island was populated by Lizard-rats and Lizard gulls. The island never saw a sunrise or sunset. It was a fragment prone to wander and conjured from memories of the god's home.
The god destroyed the Third Meckros city and rescued only the weaponsmith, Withal, to serve as his slave. Giving the man three Nacht servants, Mape, Pule, and Rind, he ordered him to create a particular sword of the god's own devising.
Two years later, it was revealed that the Crippled God was behind Hannan Mosag's rise to power within the Tiste Edur. The Warlock King had discovered the Edur's god, Father Shadow, was long dead and sought another source of power to make his people unassailable. Their pact gave the Warlock King access to Chaos magic, and he brought the six Edur tribes under his rule during the War of Unification. The Crippled God also gave Mosag the service of an enslaved Demon spirit-god and sent him a dream with the location of a gift in the ice fields of Lether. Some of the Edur, including Uruth Sengar, were suspicious of the source of Mosag's new power, which did not resemble Kurald Emurlahn.
Hannan sent the four brothers of House Sengar to retrieve the gift from the ice with a warning that none should touch it. The four discovered the gift was a sword before they were ambushed by a large force of Jheck. Rhulad Sengar, the youngest of the four, took the sword in order to defend himself, but was slain and the sword refused to leave his hands. Rhulad's spirit awoke on the island where the Crippled God offered to restore him to a life of immortality with ever increasing power in return for his service. Rhulad accepted and awoke back in his village where he declared himself emperor of the Tiste Edur in Hannan Mosag's stead. He accused the Warlock King of weakness and treachery for refusing to seek out conquest as their mutual patron had demanded. Rhulad forced the Warlock King to kneel and serve him and then declared war on the Kingdom of Lether.
The Crippled God reneged on his promise to release Withal after the sword was completed, instead pressuring the Meckros to worship him. During this time, the god became concerned for Withal's loneliness. To combat this, he resurrected the Tiste Andii, Sandalath Drukorlat, as a female companion. Withal was angered by the god's presumption and the god was disappointed in Withal's lack of gratitude. Despite his hatred for the gods in general, Withal began to pray to Mael, Elder God of the sea.
The Crippled God continued to whisper advice into Rhulad's ear as he led his armies to victory in Lether. After Rhulad and his Edur conquered Letheras and Rhulad proclaimed himself emperor of Lether, a storm appeared off the coast of the Crippled God's island. Withal had an epiphany regarding the daily performances of the Nachts, realising they had been trying to send him a message. He toppled the Crippled God's tent, the centre of the god's power, upon its shrieking occupant and a boat bearing Mael arrived on shore. The god offered the boat for Withal, Sandalath, and the Nachts to escape. Then Mael went to beat the Crippled God senseless.
Cotillion sought information about the Crippled God from Ampelas, Eloth, and Kalse, three Eleint chained within Shadow. He asked the Eleint whether the God was an Elder God and how such a being could be killed, but the Eleint refused to answer. Cotillion noted that the God's fall had shattered the balance with his power torn apart into miniscule, virtually lifeless Warrens. Now the Crippled God was poisoning the Warrens and Cotillion sought allies amongst the Eleint and Edgewalker for the war to come.
The Crippled God made an attempt to take the First Throne, which would give him command over the T'lan Imass. Since only a mortal might take the Throne, the Tiste Edur were sent to attack together with their Letherii soldiers and the champion Icarium, who had yet to prove himself worthy of their Emperor. Their attacks were stopped by several allies, amongst them Quick Ben, Trull and the Eres'al.
The Crippled God was not yet ready for open war with the gods, so he continued to work through his servants who often had their own conflicting agenda. Hannan Mosag's K'risnan herded the party of Silchas Ruin and Fear Sengar away from the east of Lether, where secrets waited, and towards the Finnest of Scabandari Bloodeye. Those K'risnan who tried to directly challenge Ruin found they could no longer access the god's magic despite the Warlock King's desire to capture him for his own schemes. The Crippled God was not ready to openly challenge the White Crow. Rather than killing the powerless Ventrala, Ruin sent him back to Letheras with a message for Mosag: "A god in pain is not the same as a god obsessed with evil...perhaps it is the likes of you who have in turn shaped the Crippled God. Perhaps, without his broken, malformed worshippers, he would have healed long ago."
Meanwhile, the Warlock King made a bargain with Sukul Ankhadu and Sheltatha Lore promising to lead them to their enemy, Silchas Ruin, in return for granting the Crippled God access to the power of Scabandari's Finnest. He claimed the god was not willing to face Ruin alone, but would stand against him with allies. The god's use of the Finnest would lead to its destruction, satisfying another of the two Soletaken's desires.
Janall Diskanar, former Queen of Lether whose body and mind had been twisted by acting as a conduit for the Crippled God's magic, became the god's newest follower. He spoke to her in her mind, telling her "when the pain at last ends, then you shall see the truth of me. Dear Queen, my power was once the sweetest kiss. A love that broke nothing." He complained that humanity made his every breath agony and his every convulsion ecstasy. He was what his worshippers made of him. In response to her demands for the return of her throne, the god promised to answer her prayers but said, "Just do not ever say I didn't warn you." Janall also claimed Turudal Brizad no longer visited her as the "Master sees through my eyes."
Emroth, one of the Crippled God's Unbound, passed through Omtose Phellack towards the Refugium. She was joined on the journey by the ghost of Hedge, who suspected she might be attempting to turn the thousands of Imass that lived there to the worship of the Crippled God. But when he realised she was more likely interested in the realm's gate to Starvald Demelain where anything was possible, including the destruction of the warrens, he killed her with a cusser.
Emperor Rhulad Sengar brought champions from all across the world to face him in never-ending battle. Each time the immortal emperor would return to life through the power of the Crippled God's cursed sword. Samar Dev surmised that the point of this exercise was for the Fallen One to demonstrate that "Grandness and potential and promise, they all break in the end." Legions of the world's most extraordinary warriors would fall and just become another name on the list of the slain. Even Rhulad, his tortured and insane champion, would succeed and return each time as visibly less than what he was before. A "broken wielder broken by his power."
After Mael had rescued Withal, he sent the swordsmith to wait for Adjunct Tavore Paran in Malaz City. Withal joined the Bonehunters as they crossed the ocean to invade the Letherii Empire and the Adjunct regularly met with him in secret consultations about the sword he had forged for the Crippled God.
The Crippled God is the tenth and final volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson 's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. In an interview, Erikson had mentioned that this book would be the second half of the series finale, with Dust of Dreams ending on a cliffhanger.
Malazan Book of the Fallen / məˈlæzən / [1] is a series of epic fantasy novels written by the Canadian author Steven Erikson. The series, published by Bantam Books in the U.K. and Tor Books in the U.S., consists of ten volumes, beginning with Gardens of the Moon (1999) and concluding with The Crippled God (2011).
- 1 April 1999 – 21 February 2011
- High fantasy
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