A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 2

absentia of Coral
    Rath'Fener (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Shadowthrone (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Queen of Dreams (Priestess of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Hood (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'D'rek (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Trake (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Burn (Priestess of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Togg (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Fanderay (Priestess of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Dessembrae (Priestess of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Oponn (Priest of the Mask Council)
    Rath'Beru (Priest of the Mask Council)
     
ONEARM'S HOST
    Dujek Onearm, commander of renegade Malazan army
    Whiskeyjack, second-in-command of renegade Malazan
army
    Twist, commander of the Black Moranth
    Artanthos, standard-bearer of renegade Malazan army
    Barack, a liaison officer
    Hareb, a noble-born captain
    Ganoes Paran, Captain, Bridgeburners
    Antsy, sergeant, 7th Squad, Bridgeburners
    Picker, corporal, 7th Squad, Bridgeburners
    Detoran, soldier, 7th Squad
    Spindle, mage and sapper, 7th Squad
    Blend, soldier, 7th Squad
    Mallet, healer, 9th Squad
    Hedge, sapper, 9th Squad
    Trotts, soldier, 9th Squad
    Quick Ben, mage, 9th Squad
    Aimless (Bridgeburner corporal)
    Bucklund (Bridgeburner sergeant)
    Runter (Bridgeburner sapper)
    Mulch (Bridgeburner healer)
    Bluepearl (Bridgeburner mage)
    Shank (Bridgeburner mage)
    Toes (Bridgeburner mage)
     
BROOO'S HOST
    Caladan Brood, warlord of liberation army on Genabackis
    Anomander Rake, Lord of Moon's Spawn
    Kallor, the High King, Brood's second-in-command
    The Mhybe, matron of the Rhivi Tribes
    Silverfox, the Rhivi Reborn
    Korlat, a Tiste Andii Soletaken
    Orfantal, Korlat's brother
    Hurlochel, an outrider in the liberation army
    Crone, a Great Raven and companion to Anomander Rake
     
THE BARCHAST
    Humbrall Taur, warchief of the White Face Clan
    Hetan, his daughter
    Cafal, his first son
    Netok, his second son
     
DARUJISTAN ENVO YS
    Coll, an ambassador
    Estraysian D'Arle, a councilman
    Barak, an alchemist
    Kruppe, a citizen
    Murillio, a citizen
     
THE C'LAN IMASS
    Kron, ruler of the Kron T'lan Imass
    Cannig Tol, clan chief
    Bek Okhan, a Bonecaster
    Pran Chole, a Bonecaster
    Okral Lom, a Bonecaster
    Bendal Home, a Bonecaster
    Ay Estos, a Bonecaster
    Olar Ethil, the First Bonecaster and First Soletaken
    Tool, the Shorn, once First Sword
    Kilava, a renegade Bonecaster
    Lanas Tog, of Kerluhm T'lan Imass
     
THE PANNION DOMIN
    The Seer, priest-king of the Domin
    Ultentha, Septarch of Coral
    Kulpath, Septarch of the besieging army
    Inal, Septarch of Lest
    Anaster, a Tenescowri Child of the Dead Seed
    Seerdomin Kahlt
     
OTHERS
    K'rul, an Elder God
    Draconus, an Elder God
    Sister of Cold Nights, an Elder Goddess
    Lady Envy, a resident of Morn
    Gethol, a Herald
    Treach, a First Hero (the Tiger of Summer)
    Toc the Younger, Aral Fayle, a Malazan scout
    Garath, a large dog
    Baaljagg, a larger wolf
    Mok, a Seguleh
    Thurule, a Seguleh
    Senu, a Seguleh
    The Chained One, an unknown ascendant (also known as the Crippled God)
    The Witch of Tennes
    Munug, a Daru artisan
    Talamandas, a Barghast sticksnare
    Ormulogun, artist in Onearm's Host
    Gumble, his critic
    Haradas, a Trygalle Trade Guild caravan master
    Azra Jael, a marine in Onearm's Host
    Straw, a Mott Irregular
    Sty, a Mott Irregular
    Stump, a Mott Irregular
    Job Bole, a Mott Irregular

Prologue
    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 ...
    Ancient Histories, Vol. I Kinicik Karbar'n

I
    Maeth'ki Im (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 Imass 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 none the less, newly birthed land dominated the vista.
    The breaking of the sorcery that had raised the glacial age returned to the region the old, natural seasons, but the memories of mountain-high ice