A Malazan Book of the Fallen Collection 2

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    Squint, a soldier in the Aren Guard
    Pearl, a Claw
    Lostara Yil, an officer in the Red Blades
    Gall, Warleader of the Khundryl Burned Tears
    Imrahl, a warrior of the Khundryl Burned Tears
    Topper, the Clawmaster
MARINES OF THE 9th COMPANY, 8th LEGION
    Lieutenant Ranal
    Sergeant Strings
    Sergeant Gesler
    Sergeant Borduke
    Corporal Tarr
    Corporal Stormy
    Corporal Hubb
    Bottle, a squad mage
    Smiles
    Koryk, a half-Seti soldier
    Cuttle, a sapper
    Truth
    Pella
    Tavos Pond
    Sands
    Balgrid
    Ibb
    Maybe
    Lutes
SELECTED HEAVY INFANTRY OF THE 9th COMPANY, 8th LEGION
    Sergeant Mosel
    Sergeant Sobelone
    Sergeant Tugg
    Flashwit
    Uru Hela
    Bowl
    Shortnose
SELECTED MEDIUM INFANTRY OF THE 9th COMPANY, 8th LEGION
    Sergeant Balm
    Sergeant Moak
    Sergeant Thorn Tissy
    Corporal Deadsmell
    Corporal Burnt
    Corporal Tulip
    Throatslitter
    Widdershins
    Galt
    Lobe
    Stacker
    Ramp
    Able
OTHER SOLDIERS OF THE MALAZAN EMPIRE
    Sergeant Cord, 2nd Company, Ashok Regiment
    Ebron, 5th squad, mage
    Limp, 5th squad
    Bell, 5th squad
    Corporal Shard, 5th squad
    Captain Kindly, 2nd Company
    Lieutenant Pores, 2nd Company
    Jibb, Ehrlitan Guard
    Gullstream, Ehrlitan Guard
    Scrawl, Ehrlitan Guard
    Master Sergeant Braven Tooth, Malaz City Garrison
    Captain Irriz, renegade
    Sinn, refugee
    Gentur
    Mudslinger Hawl
NATHII
    Slavemaster Silgar
    Damisk
    Balantis
    Astabb
    Borrug
OTHERS ON GENABACRIS
    Torvald Nom
    Calm
    Ganal
SHA'IR'S ARMY OF THE APOCALYPSE
    Sha'ik, The Chosen One of the Whirlwind Goddess
(once Felisin of House Paran)
    Felisin Younger, her adopted daughter
    Toblakai
    Leoman of the Flails
    High Mage L'oric
    High Mage Bidithal
    High Mage Febryl
    Heboric Ghost Hands
    Kamist Reloe, Korbolo Dom's mage
    Henaras, a sorceress
    Fayelle, a sorceress
    Mathok, Warleader of the Desert Tribes
    T'morol, his bodyguard
    Corabb Bhilan Thenu'alas, an officer in Leoman's
company
    Scillara, a camp follower
    Duryl, a messenger
    Ethume, a corporal
    Korbolo Dom, a renegade Napan
    Kasanal, his hired assassin
OTHERS
    Kalam Mekhar, an assassin
    Trull Sengar, a Tiste Edur
    Onrack, a T'lan Imass
    Cutter, an assassin (also known as Crokus)
    Apsalar, an assassin
    Rellock, Apsalar's father
    Cotillion, Patron of Assassins
    Traveller
    Rood, a Hound of Shadow
    Blind, a Hound of Shadow
    Darist, a Tiste Andii
    Ba'ienrok (Keeper), a hermit
    Ibra Gholan, a T'lan Imass Clan Leader
    Monok Ochem, a Bonecaster of the Logros T'lan Imass
    Haran Epal, a T'lan Imass
    Olar Shayn, a T'lan Imass
    Greyfrog, a demon familiar
    Apt, a matron demon (Aptorian) of Shadow
    Azalan, a demon of Shadow
    Panek, a child of Shadow
    Mebra, a spy in Ehrlitan
    Iskaral Pust, a priest of Shadow
    Mogora, his D'ivers wife
    Cynnigig, a Jaghut
    Phyrlis, a Jaghut
    Aramala, a Jaghut
    Icarium, a Jhag
    Mappo Runt, a Trell
    Jorrude, a Tiste Liosan Seneschal
    Malachar, a Tiste Liosan
    Enias, a Tiste Liosan
    Orenas, a Tiste Liosan

PROLOGUE
    Verge of the Nascent, the 943rd Day of the Search
1159 Burn's Sleep
     
    Grey, bloated and pocked, the bodies lined the silt-laden shoreline for as far as the eye could see. Heaped like driftwood by the rising water, bobbing and rolling on the edges, the putrefying flesh seethed with black-shelled, ten-legged crabs. The coin-sized creatures had scarcely begun to make inroads on the bounteous feast the warren's sundering had laid before them.
    The sea mirrored the low sky's hue. Dull, patched pewter above and below, broken only by the deeper grey of silts and, thirty strokes of the oar distant, the smeared ochre tones of the barely visible upper levels of a city's inundated buildings. The storms had passed, the waters were calm amidst the wreckage of a drowned world.
    Short, squat had been the inhabitants. Flat-featured, the pale hair left long and loose. Their world had been a cold one, given the thick-padded clothing they had worn. But with the sundering that had changed, cataclysmically. The air was sultry, damp and now foul with the reek of decay.
    The sea had been born of a river on another realm. A massive, wide and probably continent-spanning artery of fresh water, heavy with a plain's silts, the murky depths
home to huge catfish and wagon-wheel-sized spiders, its shallows crowded with the crabs and carnivorous, rootless plants. The river had poured its torrential volume onto this vast, level landscape. Days, then weeks, then months.
    Storms, conjured by the volatile clash of tropical air-streams with the resident temperate climate, had driven the flood on beneath shrieking winds,