Toll The Hounds (Book 8 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

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Dancer, a master assassin and co-founder (with Kellanved) of the Malazan Empire (Mentioned only) [9]

Aranatha, who flinches at shadows… hides her other self behind a wall no power can surmount. Hides it, until it’s needed. Yes, he could feel her now, an emanation of will. Another lone figure walking up from the coast. This one has grey hair, looks very old, wears a long coat of chain and walks with the purpose of the mad. Kallor thinks madness is born of an inner torment whereas he, the High King, was a man at peace in his heart. His thoughts turn to banality and the pointlessness of everything. As he walks, he deftly kills a rabbit for dinner and keeps walking. And, in a street unworthy of any particular notice, stands an ox, thinking about breakfast. What else is there, after all, when love and friendship and power, and regret and loss and reunion fierce enough to tear away all that might have been bittersweet, when all — all — is gone and done with, what else is there, but the needs of the stomach? Duiker is met by the bard who knows that the historian struggles to write down the chain of dogs, he says that maybe expositional prose is not a good fit and offers to allow him to use his voice. There's a little meta exchange about contradictory tales, with the bard claiming that he makes no distinction between lies and truth. The scene ends with a mic drop moment- "Call me Fisher". Made a Slave: Young Harllo, after having been clubbed unconscious by Snell, finds himself sold to the mines.

Reaching down to grasp them… The strength she kept hidden was unveiled suddenly, and they were being dragged towards the door… Kadaspala is a more direct example. He used to be a brilliant painter known in all of Kurald Galain. By the time of Toll the Hounds he's switched to tattooing and is busy using those imprisoned within Dragnipur — whether they're willing or not — to create a Child God to take revenge on Anomander Rake. That line from the Captain is a pretty concise on-the-nose summation of Karsa in many way ways: “You could have lied.” And it’s implied “But you didn’t.”

Anomander Rake, Hood, Shadowthrone and Edgewalker hedge an elaborate plan that will not only relieve Hood of his duties as the God of Death, but free the Gate of Darkness from the wagon within Dragnipur and allow Mother Dark to return to her children again, all while making it impossible for her to ignore Anomander Rake's apology. To make this plan work, both Hood and Anomander Rake stage their own plans:A small aside here that as much loyalty as the other Andii show Anomander, he seems burdened by them. Endest thinks that absolute loyalty is surrender from both sides. Free will on one side and freedom from the other. Blue Moranth, ocean-going clan of the Moranth - functioned as their Navy/Merchant Marines branch (Mentioned only) [13] Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Spoofed when Tovald Nom breaks into a nobleman's house and roots through his library because he thinks it's just for show. He's right and finds literary pearls such as Tales of Pamby Doughty and the World Inside the Trunk (with illustrations by some dead man).

Mandatory Unretirement: The Bridgeburners have retired and opened up K'rul's Bar, but have to unretire themselves when the Assassins Guild takes a contract on them. They've not lost any of their edge. I also find Mallet’s observations about retirement to be very astute—in fact, I have seen family members experience the idea that everything that made them worthwhile is now over, and striving to find something that might help fill the gap. And it seems that shiver through Kurald Galain has the power to wake Itkovian for a brief moment as well.Bairoth Gild, a young warrior of the Uryd Teblor Tribe, companion of Karsa Orlong (Mentioned only) [8] This early line, “Who could call a single deed inconsequential?” is an important facet of this series—as much as we see big deeds by big people (Rake, Shadowthrone, etc.), small acts by “small” people ripple out as well. This is, after all, as much if not more a story of the “grunts,” of the common soldier, as of gods and ascendants.

Gothos, a Jaghut mage, often to be found in Azath Houses (First mentioned) [10] (First appearance) [8]It is to these mines that an unconscious Harllo is being taken by an old man who found him. He gets money in return for finding a slave to work there. We created a long winded introduction to TtH including character summaries and some plot reminders to help you along. Avab Tenitt, a man whose life was 'touched' by Hood (in his mortal form) as he walked the streets of Darujhistan (Mentioned only) [6] Fat Saborgan, a man whose life was 'touched' by Hood (in his mortal form) as he walked the streets of Darujhistan (Mentioned only) [6]