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]
The last Chaining
Those present during the last Chaining were:
- Anomander Rake[4]
- Caladan Brood[4]
- Cotillion[5]
- Dessembrae
- Fanald - Mortal Sword of Fener[6]
- Fener[7][4]
- Hood[4]
- Oponn[4]
- Osserc[4]
- Queen of Dreams[4]
- A host of other Ascendants[4]
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.[8] Fanald, Fener's Mortal Sword, was killed during the Chaining.[6]
Other participants in past Chainings
Those listed below participated in a Chaining, although it is unsure which one.
- Crone and other Great Ravens[9]
- Gethol[10]
- Silanah
- Five black dragons of the Tiste Andii
- Forty Tiste Andii
Locations
The Dolmens of Tien were the location of one of the Chainings.[11]
Other Chainings
A Jaghut mother used the term "chaining" to describe the imprisonment of the Jaghut Tyrant Raest below the Gadrobi Hills.[12]
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
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 House of Chains, Chapter 23, Epigraph
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.348
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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