Dust of Dreams/Chapter 5

Epigraph

The painter must be mute The sculptor deaf Talents are passed out Singly As everyone knows Oh let them dabble We smile our indulgence No end to our talent For allowances But talents are passed out Singly We permit you one Worth lauding The rest may do service In serviceable fashion But greatness? That is a title passed out Singly Don't be greedy Over trying our indulgence Permission Belongs to us Behind the makeshift wall— The bricks of our Reasonable scepticism. A Poem That Serves Astattle Pohm

In Letheras the Adjunct Tavore holds a meeting with her officers and Quick Ben. She tell them that the Bonehunters should prepare to travel east, through the Wastelands to Kolanse. Quick Ben explains that the Crippled God is there, and that the other gods intend to chain him more thoroughly and drain him of his power. The Forkrul Assail are also involved and are probably using the blood of the massacred population to create a Gate into Ahkrast Korvalain, their Warren.

Meanwhile Brys Beddict decides to lead a section of the Letherii army and escort the departing Bonehunters through the Wasteland. Ublala Pung remembers that Karsa Orlong told him to gather all the Tarthenal into an army for Karsa to lead.

Meanwhile Bottle discusses with his fellow squad mages how their warrens have been weakened. He reveals that Icarium made a new set of Warrens, perhaps from his own blood; and that this has disrupted the old ones. Fiddler's reading has fed extra power into these warrens. Sinn and Grub return to the Azath House and manage to enter one of the new warrens.