Grundy Lake, Canada by Robert Rutkay
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So, you know that song I was going to write about Kallor?
Well, here are the lyrics I wrote that night:
What no one can see as they stare in your eyes Is the soul of a man who is waiting to die. Fated to build and cursed to destroy All you hold dear is cursed to decay.
For many a year, you’ve wandered these lands; You stand alone, but it was ever thus, And all that you ever gained has palled: A serenade of the dead and gone.
Watch, now, these vultures of grief As they feast on pointless tragedy
The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don’t even see you, no, But you will march on, because it is what you do.
Beaten and boxed about, yet Still you rise to resume your trek. Hunted always, never to cease You rise and stride another step.
Grieve for the Jaghut, High King of Failures, When at last you sit on your broken throne Weep for the war that could not be won And think, think, then, long and hard
Watch, now, these vultures of grief As they feast on pointless tragedy
The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don’t even see you, no, But you will march on, because it is what you do.
But you will march on, because it is what you do.
ploverloverjr reblogged your post ploverloverjr asked:What if Karsa... and added:
Dragnipur kills on contact, if Karsa had it he would be entirely unstoppable, no one could touch him.
That would imply, of course, that he could touch a person with Dragnipur. Because make no mistake, it has been held off before. Take the fact that Anomander Rake took the sword from Draconus, for example.
Also, once again, Dragnipur does NOT in fact kill. It imprisons, and creatures imprisoned may also be set free or escape. For example, the Hounds of Shadow set free by Ganoes Paran on his first meeting with Anomander (and his second with the Hounds). And, of course, all the people set free upon Dragnipur’s destruction: Draconus and Apsal’ara, just to name a few.
What if Karsa Orlong wielded dragnipur instead of Anomander Rake?
You know, I feel like that would be a bad thing, honestly.
Anomander wields Dragnipur with the end goal of making Mother Dark face her people again and her responsibilities. At the same time, he’s making sure that Draconus’ mistake in harnessing Darkness/Order to a big rolling wagon and making it so that it’s a constant chase by Chaos. He also has a very strict.. moral code, shall we say.
Karsa Orlong, on the other hand, I feel like he would go around killing every single god and chaining them up in Dragnipur, and let’s face it, while there is a certain logic to getting rid of certain gods and idiots, there is no way in hell that the very same wagon I spoke of above would be able to handle many more bodies. Just look at how overloaded it was by the time we got a glimpse inside it. Yes, more chainings means more manpower, but there would be a proportionately growing amount of weight to try and drag along, because none of those bodies decay. A bunch of them are still alive and just too mangled to continue on, but even the corpses don’t just magically disappear. They build up. And Dragnipur would never be broken. Which means that Chaos would still catch up, just like it was about to by the time Dragnipur was shattered, and the sacrifices of the dead would mean absolutely nothing because there would be no end to it.
Of course, this is all assuming that Karsa Orlong would even consent to carry the sword in the first place, because as we all know, he despises the idea of being someone’s tool. If he were bearing Dragnipur, in a way, that is precisely what he would be doing. And I really can’t see him going for that.
You couldn’t deny that it would probably make Karsa Orlong the most powerful person in the world of Malazan
Actually, I don’t think it would really change his level of power at all. He’s already a bloody near-Ascendant, pretty much, mostly because of the fact that he can shake off magic like it’s nothing, but the weapons he holds never change how much power he has.. And honestly, the only thing that Dragnipur does is ensure that people get trapped instead of killed… Which he already does, pretty much, with his ‘regular’ sword. He’s got a plethora of chained ghosts following him around all day every day as it is.

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Someone give me something to work on or I’ll never be productive D:
The Chain of Dogs, Coltaine's March from Hissar to Aren
*cracks knuckles*
Alright, time for a very lengthy process of checking through the books to see exactly what route the Chain of Dogs took, and then I will post a route map. Instead of the very vague map we're given from the books.
Hopefully.
Please let me know if there's any specific period or group you want me to cover like I did for Hissar! I'd be happy to do so :3
Okay but Anomander Rake though.
-> If anyone else had carried Dragnipur, they’d be curled up on the floor crying. He stands straight. Unbowed.
-> He’s the only one who could beat Draconus and take the sword from him (though I mean, there’s a lot of speculation about Draconus, but anyways. That’s beside the point).
-> The one Tiste Andii who decides to get his people out of Kharkanas and Kurald Galain, because he actually knows that stuff needs to change; stagnation is never a good thing.
-> He carried the burden of his people’s faith in him for centuries. Without complaint.
-> He wanted to stop Whiskeyjack from killing the Mothers of the Dead Seed out of compassion. Because he didn’t want him to carry the guilt of killing in cold blood.
-> He engineered the whole scenario with getting himself killed in order to destroy Dragnipur and get Mother Dark to turn her face back to her children.
-> He’s got a dragon lover. I mean, heck yes.
-> He is a dragon. Soletaken, but still got blood of the Eleint. And he doesn’t let it control him.
And this is seriously just barely brushing the surface of this guy.
Let me just add -and this is still me-
-> Dude was a golden-skinned blond or something back before the split of light and dark and stuff. Turns out black-skinned with quicksilver hair afterwards and looks no less bloody attractive. Yes this is superficial, no I don't care. Guy's a freaking supermodel and he knows it.

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Pre-Chain of Dogs
So, Hissar is always an interesting part of Deadhouse Gates (at least to me) because of all the nuances. You get the Jhistal Priest, you get the Wickans, you get the Seventh, and you get the Red Blades (not to mention the actual citizens of Hissar..). But most importantly, Coltaine's Wickans.
The Wickan entrance into Hissar when they're getting off the ships always sends a huge message. They're wild as they disembark, completely haywire and (apparently) leaderless to most anyone who's watching the scene, and the Hissar City Guard is pretty freaking worried and thinking they'll have to fight these savages.
And then, all of a sudden, they calm down and form ranks in a very short span of time, and they're in an Imperial Parade Formation, proceeding in an orderly manner up from the Harbour.
I always love that, simply for the fact that the Wickans indulge the Malazans' preconceptions of them, and then prove them wrong.
Moving on to the audience the Wickans have, I love Duiker's input, all the time.
"Who better to deal with insurrection than a warrior who led one himself?"
And this increasingly becomes obvious as Coltaine trains the Seventh for precisely what they will become.
"That ruined monastery on the hill south of the city - you know the one? Just foundations left except for the central temple, but the chest-high walls cover the entire hilltop like a small city. The sappers have built them up, roofed some of them over. It was like a maze of alleys and cul-de-sacs to begin with, but Coltaine had them turn it into a nightmare. The Wickan has us there every afternoon, mock battles, street control, assaulting buildings, break-out tactics, retrieving wounded."
And, perhaps most importantly, he trains them to deal with REAL refugees. He makes Kulp create these illusions - thousands of them - that act like real people, doing exactly what panicking people are bound to do when they are forced to abandon their homes for an uncertain future.
"I create Malazan refugees, historian. By the hundred. A thousand weighted scarecrows for the soldiers to drag around aren't sufficient for Coltaine, the ones he has me create flee the wrong way, or refuse to leave their homes, or drag furniture and other possessions. Coltaine's orders - my refugees create chaos, and so far cost more lives than any other element in the exercises."
Coltaine knows exactly what's coming. And he needs his army to be ready.
Malazan Book of The Fallen : Peoples and Races (1/?)
Nearing the end of Dust of Dreams and I think I need to post about how amazing Lieutenant Pores is. He is incredibly competent, but as a crook of the highest order. Let’s just appreciate what he’s been doing. The Bonehunters are marching through a place called “The Wastelands”...
T’lan Imass concept.
Beak
All he wants is friends.
And then he has friends.
And he saves them all and dies.
They find his bones curled up.
Like a scared young child.

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Reasons to read Malazan books:
EVERYTHING. EVER.
Okay but Anomander Rake though.
-> If anyone else had carried Dragnipur, they’d be curled up on the floor crying. He stands straight. Unbowed.
-> He’s the only one who could beat Draconus and take the sword from him (though I mean, there’s a lot of speculation about Draconus, but anyways. That’s beside the point).
-> The one Tiste Andii who decides to get his people out of Kharkanas and Kurald Galain, because he actually knows that stuff needs to change; stagnation is never a good thing.
-> He carried the burden of his people’s faith in him for centuries. Without complaint.
-> He wanted to stop Whiskeyjack from killing the Mothers of the Dead Seed out of compassion. Because he didn’t want him to carry the guilt of killing in cold blood.
-> He engineered the whole scenario with getting himself killed in order to destroy Dragnipur and get Mother Dark to turn her face back to her children.
-> He’s got a dragon lover. I mean, heck yes.
-> He is a dragon. Soletaken, but still got blood of the Eleint. And he doesn’t let it control him.
And this is seriously just barely brushing the surface of this guy.