Father Light was an Elder God of the Tiste Liosan. In Tiste Andii lore, it was said Mother Dark created him to be her companion.
In House of Chains[]
Seneschal Jorrude of the Tiste Liosan claimed the Tiste Andii were tragically imperfect in comparison to the Liosan as they had not received the benefit of Father Light's purifying blood. The Tiste Edur were tolerated because they carried something of Father Light within them. The Tiste Liosan were dedicated to Father Light's son, Osric.[1]
In Reaper's Gale[]
The Edur Warlock King, Hannan Mosag, called upon Father Light and Mother Dark to look upon him and his fellow crippled children and heal Kurald Emurlahn. He asked that they guide him to the Throne of Shadow before it was taken by the Crippled God. In his pleas, Mosag called for the betrayals between the Andii, Liosan, and Edur to be over, and pledged the Edur to a new alliance. His words were met only with a band of darkness breaking through the clouds in the eastern sky and a glow of the sun through the clouds to the west.[2]
Discussing Father Light and Mother Dark with Seren Pedac, Udinaas spoke of Mother Dark taking Father Light as her husband. He wondered whether Anomander Rake, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin had broken with their mother over their displeasure with their stepfather or because they had found out who their true father was. Seren thought the Edur were the children of Father Light and Mother Dark.[3]
When Clip brought Ruin, Udinaas, and the others into Kurald Galain, they found themselves not in complete darkness, but in a dead rock-strewn world with a white cloudy sky and no visible sun. Clip said they walked a road of Kurald Liosan, Father Light's gift of long ago. But "his proud garden didn't last very long."[4]
In Toll the Hounds[]
The Saelen Gara of the lost Kharkanan forestlands had believed the moon was a gift of seduction from Father Light to Mother Dark. It stood in the night sky as a reminder of his love for her. They also believed the moon was the backside of Father Light's baleful eye which served as a lens into other worlds. On those worlds, the moon would appear as a sun.[5]
In Dust of Dreams[]
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In The Crippled God[]
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ House of Chains, Chapter 9, US SFBC p.379/382
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 11, US HC p.294
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 19, US HC p.562-563
- ↑ Reaper's Gale, Chapter 19, US HC p.564/565-566
- ↑ Toll the Hounds, Chapter 24