A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 1

T'lan Imass: the name of the clans under the command of Logros
    The Bridgeburners: a legendary elite division in the Malaz 2nd Army
    The Pannion Seer: a mysterious prophet ruling the lands south of Darujhistan
    The Warlord: the name for Caladan Brood
    The Claw: the covert organization of the Malazan Empire
     
PEOPLES (HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN)
    Barghast (non-human): pastoral nomadic warrior society
    Forkrul Assail (non-human): extinct mythical people (one of the Four Founding Races)
    Jaghut (non-human): extinct mythical people (one of the Four Founding Races)
    Moranth (non-human): highly regimented civilization centred in Cloud Forest
    T'lan Imass: one of the Four Founding Races, now immortal
    Tiste Andii (non-human): an Elder Race
    Tiste Edur (non-human): an Elder Race
    Trell (non-human): pastoral nomadic warrior society
     
THE DECK OF DRAGONS: THE FATID (AND ASSOCIATED ASCENDANTS)
    High House Life
    King
    Queen (Queen of Dreams)
    Champion
    Priest
    Herald
    Soldier
    Weaver
    Mason Virgin
    High House Death
    King (Hood)
    Queen
    Knight (once Dassem Ultor)
    Magi
    Herald
    Soldier
    Spinner
    Mason
    Virgin
    High House Light
    King
    Queen
    Champion
    Priest
    Captain
    Soldier
    Seamstress
    Builder
    Maiden
    High House Dark
    King
    Queen
    Knight (Son of Darkness)
    Magi
    Captain
    Soldier
    Weaver
    Mason
    Wife
    High House Shadow
    King (Shadowthrone/Ammanas)
    Queen
    Assassin (the Rope/Cotillion)
    Magi
    Hound
    Unaligned:
    Oponn (the Jesters of Chance)
    Obelisk (Burn)
    Crown
    Sceptre
    Orb
    Throne
     
    Bonecaster: a shaman of the T'lan Imass
    D'ivers: a higher order of shapeshifting
    Otataral: a magic-negating reddish ore mined from the Tanno Hills, Seven Cities
    Soletaken: an order of shape-shifting
    Warrens of Chaos: the miasmic paths between the Warrens
     
ASCENDANTS
    Apsalar, Lady of Thieves
    Bern, Lord of Storms
    Burn, Lady of the Earth, the Sleeping Goddess
    Caladan Brood, the Warlord
    Cotillion/The Rope (the Assassin of High House Shadow)
    Dessembrae, Lord of Tragedy
    D'rek, the Worm of Autumn (sometimes the Queen of Disease, see Poliel)
    Fanderay, She-Wolf of Winter
    Fener, the Boar (see also Tennerock)
    Gedderone, Lady of Spring and Rebirth
    Great Ravens, ravens sustained by magic
    Hood (King of High House Death)
    Jhess, Queen of Weaving
    Kallor, the High King
    K'rul, Elder God
    Mael, Elder God
    Mown, Lady of Beggars, Slaves and Serfs
    Nerruse, Lady of Calm Seas and Fair Wind
    Oponn, Twin Jesters of Chance
    Osserc, Lord of the Sky
    Poliel, Mistress of Pestilence
    Queen of Dreams (Queen of High House Life)
    Shadowthrone/Ammanas (King of High House Shadow)
    Shedenul/Soliel, Lady of Health
    Soliel, Mistress of Healing
    Tennerock/Fener, the Boar of Five Tusks
    The Crippled God, King of Chains
    The Hounds (of High House Shadow)
    Togg (see Fanderay), the Wolf of Winter
    Trake/Treach, the Tiger of Summer and Battle
    Son of Darkness/Moon's lord/Anomander Rake (Knight of High House Dark)
    Treach, First Hero

Steven Erikson's epic fantasy sequence
continues in Memories of Ice, also
available from Bantam Books.
Here is the Prologue as a taster ...
     
    The ancient wars of the T'lan Imass and the Jaghut
saw the world torn asunder. Vast armies contended
on the ravaged lands, the dead piled high, their bone
the bones of hills, their spilled blood the blood of seas.
Sorceries raged until the sky itself was fire ...
    Kinick Karbar'n Ancient Histories, Vol. 1
     
    Maeth'ki lm (Pogrom of the Rotted Flower), the 33rd Jaghut War
    298,665 years before
Burn's Sleep
    Swallows darted through the clouds of midges dancing over the mudflats. The sky above the marsh remained grey, but it had lost its mercurial wintry gleam, and the warm wind sighing through the air above the ravaged land held the scent of healing.
    What had once been the inland freshwater sea the T'lan called Jaghra Til – born from the shattering of the Jaghut ice-fields – was now in its own death-throes. The pallid overcast was reflected in dwindling pools and stretches of knee-deep water for as far south as the eye could scan, but nonetheless, newly birthed land dominated the vista.
    The breaking of the sorcery that had raised the glacial age had returned to the region the old, natural seasons, but the memories of mountain-high ice lingered. The exposed bedrock to the north was gouged and scraped, its basins filled with boulders. The heavy silts that had formed the floor of the inland sea still bubbled with escaping gases, as the land, freed of the enormous weight with the glacier's