Precious Thimble, a retired Mott Irregular and newfound shareholder in the Trygalle Trade Guild [2] Is this the lesson of the carriage and Karsa’s torching of it: the carriage the symbol of civilization—full of fine foods and clothing and art (via trade and slavery and death), ever moving (i.e. “progressing”), never standing still, never thinking to stand still, that there might be benefit in standing still, but always moving forward, stripping the land around it. And here is Karsa, burning it all to the ground. How the hell is a Karsa trilogy going to end, one wonders.

The Seerdomin wears his old uniform as a form of public declaration of guilt and self flagellation. He leaves the city and treks to the Great Barrow, which is a regualar occurence to him. Unlike the worshippers, he visits the Redeemer everyday to offer him company, to seek the humanity of the one made god by everyone else. Might as well share the prayer here: Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series, going first), and finally comments from Tor.com readers. In this article, we’ll cover Chapter Two of Toll the Hounds (TtH). We just saw Kallor who has lived so long that everything appears banal to him. So now we switch to Kruppe who uses this entire chapter to say, "Inconsequential? Bah!" Blue Moranth, ocean-going clan of the Moranth - functioned as their Navy/Merchant Marines branch (Mentioned only) [13]Traveller is on a quest to take revenge upon Hood, the Lord of Death himself, at all cost. He is so focused on it he does not notice or care that he is being railroaded and set up as an Unwitting Pawn. Seeing Through Another's Eyes: Mother Dark uses Aranatha, an Empty Shell, to see and occasionally influence the events while she herself in trapped on the other side of the Gate of Darkness. That mostly involves cheering up Nimander and other small things. Power that Mappo calls “illusion, farce.” You get the sense these two could have a nice tankard of ale together. As far as the white hounds, they’re not related to Paran’s freed hounds, but don’t worry—we’ll get more….

Yeah Amanda, it wouldn’t surprise me if Kallor is standing in for certain readers here. Then again, I wonder how many of those readers would still be here to get this line from Kallor. Though I guess from some of our comments, I guess a lot of folks just suffer through the philosophy but keep going.I agree Amanda that this little scene with Desra shows the power of shifting POVs. We’ve been given a pretty narrow view of Desra—using sex as a tool toward power, not much of a thinker, preferring Clip, scorning Nimander. And here we see that’s all turned upside down. She is a deep thinker. And she sees Clip as one of those who “imagine themselves strong but were in truth, weak.” While Nimander is not at all contemptible in her eyes. Instead, she “felt weak” before him and sees him as “one to whom she might surrender whatever she chose without fearing he would one day use it against her.” I like how this group of Andii is getting more and more fleshed out, how things we thought we (and they) once knew about them are being shown to be false or at least not wholly true, and how they are starting to show signs that they might form a cohesive, mutually protective group. Clip, meanwhile, we’ve been told/shown is blind to much of what he doesn’t choose to see—will he see any of this?

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".

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The Bonehunters, the name adopted by the renegade Malazan 14th Army, commanded by Adjunct Tavore Paran (Mentioned only) [16]