Soon will come the Eleint, and once more, there will be dragons in the world. At the Gates of Starvald Demelain, the Azath House sealing the portal is dying. Once freed, she will rise as a force of devastation, and against her no mortal can stand. This is a war they cannot win, and they will die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects.Įlsewhere, the three Elder Gods, Kilmandaros, Errastas and Sechul Lath, work to shatter the chains binding Korabas, the Otataral Dragon, from her eternal prison. Commanded by Yedan Derryg, the Watch, they await the breaching of Lightfall, and the coming of the Tiste Liosan. In the realm of Kurald Galain, home to the long lost city of Kharkanas, a mass of refugees stand upon the First Shore. They welcome the coming conflagration of slaughter, for it shall be of their own devising, and it pleases them to know that, in the midst of the enemies gathering against them, there shall be betrayal.

Drawing upon an alien power terrible in its magnitude, they seek to cleanse the world, to annihilate every human, every civilization, in order to begin anew. A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods – if her own troops don't kill her first.Īwaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent.

Savaged by the K'Chain Nah'Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. The climax to the epic Malazan Book of the Fallen series that will determine how the world is ruled.

The crippled god by steven erikson