Midnight Tides (Book 5 of The Malazan Book of the Fallen)

Product Information

Trull, walking on the beach, sees a white crow, a sign of evil. He wonders if the Letherii are harvesting to weaken the Edur before the Great Meeting, as the Edur need those seals to head off famine. He assumes the Letherii will argue as always their need for expansion and point to the rewards gained by other tribes that have sworn allegiance to Lether. Fear joins him and tells him Hannan is guided by visions. Trull thinks of how the Dark Times came when the Edur were sundered, Father Shadow disappeared, the Kurald Emurlahn warren was lost (though not the magic), and the warren’s fragments ruled by false gods and kings. Trull thinks Hannan has greater ambition than simply ruling the Edur tribes. Fear notes Trull would rather not fight, though he isn’t questioning his courage (Rhulad appears to however). He recalls when the Edur were masters of the Hounds and of the warren, before being betrayed by the kin of Scabandari Bloodeye and then the Andii. Fear warns Trull others among the Edur may think as Rhulad and asks Trull to stop disdaining Rhulad. Needless to say, dissatisfaction haunted Lether. Misery spread like a plague. No one was happy, the list of complaints as heard on the crowded, bustling streets grew longer with each day that passed. Ye gods, poor Buruk. I didn’t see that coming, the fact that he is Indebted. What was it—the unsavoury thing—that he was asked to do? Anyone else getting just a little bit worried about the fact that he seems so relaxed about being able to get out of debt? D'rek begins killing her worshippers. On the eve of Istral'fennidahn, the season of D'rek, the Worm of Autumn, Banaschar finds the priesthood of the Grand Temple of D'rek in Kartool City dead [160]

Night of Knives • Return of the Crimson Guard • Stonewielder • Orb Sceptre Throne • Blood and Bone • Assail One has to wonder if the K’risnan are in any way a metaphor for what Hannan has in store for the Edur: taken by force, robbed of the own identities, bound to be loyal. One would think they, perhaps even more than the shadow, might give some concern. Elements of the government of the Kingdom of Lether send a fleet of ships to hunt Tusked seals in Edur waters to violate treaty and push towards war. So, if one takes the prologue as actuality, presented as it is in third person omniscient, we can see the Edur seem to have a basic error in their belief system—thinking as they do that the Edur were betrayed by the Andii.

Fantasy Books Of The Year

After the outlawed Bonehunters defeated the Edur, and their emperor was killed by Karsa Orlong, Tehol was crowned king of Lether and thereafter known as "Tehol the Only", with Janath as his Queen. Gardens of the Moon • Deadhouse Gates • Memories of Ice • House of Chains • Midnight Tides • The Bonehunters • Reaper's Gale • Toll the Hounds • Dust of Dreams • The Crippled God That all of this was achieved with but a handful of modest proclamations and edicts makes the situation all the more remarkable. Reaper's Gale, Prologue, US HC p.24 - In the final days of King Diskanar's rule of Lether, Preda Bivatt says the city sunk eighty years before.

The Social Darwinist: Finadd Gerun Eberict, who uses his immunity from criminal prosecution to murder poor people in Letheras by the hundreds.

The Bonehunters, Chapter 10, US SFBC p.445-447 - Darpareth had been missing for two years by 1164 BS Of the three, one shall return”– Since these are wraiths, I’d guess we’re talking the Andii leaders and we know Silchas is about to crawl up out of the Azath, so I’m going with him. Eres'al, Elder Goddess, aka Eres and N'eres, name(s) used by the Nerek for the 'first mother' of their ancestor worship (Mentioned only) [16]