In order to contain them, shattered fragments of the Crippled God were chained on several occasions[1][2] by the Gods and other great powers of the Malazan world to Burn's own flesh.[3][4]
The last Chaining
Those present during the last Chaining were:
- Anomander Rake[5]
- Caladan Brood[5]
- Cotillion[6]
- Dessembrae
- Fanald - Mortal Sword of Fener[7]
- Fener[8][5]
- Hood[5]
- Oponn[5]
- Osserc[5]
- Queen of Dreams[5]
- A host of other Ascendants[5]
During this Chaining, Hood used Dassem Ultor's daughter in some way for the ritual, possibly after Lady Envy declined to participate. Dassem subsequently broke his vow to Hood.[9] Fanald, Fener's Mortal Sword, was killed during the Chaining.[7]
Other participants in past Chainings
Those listed below participated in a Chaining, although it is unsure which one.
- Crone and other Great Ravens[10]
- Gethol[11]
- Silanah
- Five black dragons of the Tiste Andii
- Forty Tiste Andii
Locations
The Dolmens of Tien were the location of one of the Chainings.[12]
Other Chainings
A Jaghut mother used the term "chaining" to describe the imprisonment of the Jaghut Tyrant Raest below the Gadrobi Hills.[13]
Notes and references
- ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.762
- ↑ Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003)
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.74
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 5, US SFBC p.195
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 House of Chains, Chapter 23, Epigraph
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.348
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Memories of Ice, Epigraph to Book Three, US SFBC p.448
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 18, US SFBC p.631
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 7, US SFBC p.272-277
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 3, US SFBC p.110
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Chapter 8, US SFBC p.294
- ↑ Blood and Bone, Chapter 2
- ↑ Memories of Ice, Prologue