Changes: Forge of Darkness

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The Forge of Darkness takes readers to Kurald Galain, the warren of Darkness, and tells an epic tale of a realm whose fate plays a crucial role in the fall of the Malazan Empire. It's a conflicted time in Kurald Galain, the warren of Darkness, where Mother Dark reigns. But this ancient land was once home to many a power… and even death is not quite eternal. The commoners' great hero, Vatha Urusander, longs for ascendency and Mother Dark's hand in marriage, but she has taken another Consort, Lord Draconus, from the faraway Dracons Hold. The idea of this union sends fissures throughout the realm, and as the rumors of civil war burn through the masses, an ancient power emerges from the long dead seas. Caught in the middle of it all are the Sons of Darkness, Anomander Rake, Andarist, and Silchas Ruin of the Purake Hold.

Publisher's summary

It is the Age of Darkness and the ancient land called Kuruld Galain - home of the Tiste Andii and ruled over by Mother Dark - is in a perilous state. The great warrior hero, Vatha Urusander, is being championed to take Mother Dark's hand in marriage but her Consort, Lord Draconus, stands in the way of such arrogant ambition.

As the impending clash between these two rivals sends fissures rippling across the realm and rumours of civil war flare up, so an ancient power emerges from seas once thought to be long dead. None can fathom its true purpose nor comprehend its potential. And in the middle of this seemingly inevitable conflagration stand the First Sons of Darkness - Anomander, Andarist and Silchas Ruin of the Purake Hold - and they are about reshape the world...

Here begins an epic tale of bitter family feuds, of jealousies and betrayals, of wild magic and unfettered power...and of the forging of a sword.

Front matter

Dedication

Clare Thomas, with love

Acknowledgements

Thank you to my advance readers: Aidan Paul Canavan, Sharon Sasaki, Darren Turpin, William and Hazel Hunter and Baria Ahmed.

Maps

Tiste Power structure

Dramatis Personae (as found in books)

click here for extended Dramatis Personae

Purake Hold

Dracons Hold

Tulla Hold

House Enes

House Durav

Hust Hold (and Legion)

Abara Delack

Neret Sorr

Urusander's Legion Officers

The Borderswords

The Citadel

The Shake

The Azathanai

The Jaghut

Others

Plot summary

Forge of Darkness
Dramatis Personae	Prelude
In These Gifts the Shapes of Adoration
Chapter 1	Chapter 2
Chapter 3	Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The Solitude of This Fire
Chapter 6	Chapter 7
Chapter 8	Chapter 9
Chapter 10
The Proofs of Your Ambition
Chapter 11	Chapter 12
Chapter 13	Chapter 14
Chapter 15
The Forge of Darkness
Chapter 16	Chapter 17
Chapter 18	Chapter 19
Chapter 20

	Pagination

Prelude

Notes and References

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Books
Malazan Book of the Fallen	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
Novels of the Malazan Empire	Night of Knives • Return of the Crimson Guard • Stonewielder • Orb Sceptre Throne • Blood and Bone • Assail
Kharkanas Trilogy	Forge of Darkness • Fall of Light • Walk in Shadow
Witness Trilogy	The God is Not Willing • No Life Forsaken
Path to Ascendancy	Dancer's Lament • Deadhouse Landing • Kellanved's Reach • Forge of the High Mage
Bauchelain & Korbal Broach	Blood Follows • The Healthy Dead • The Lees of Laughter's End • Crack'd Pot Trail • The Wurms of Blearmouth • The Fiends of Nightmaria • Upon a Dark of Evil Overlords