Malazan Wiki
Don't have an account?
Register
Register
Malazan Wiki
Malazan Wiki
6,260
pages
in: Pages with reference errors, Holds, Warrens
English

Changes: Kurald Emurlahn

Back to page
Edit
No edit summary
(→‎Natives: added "Xethel")
(13 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
−
'''Kurald Emurlahn''' was the [[Elder warren]] of [[Shadow]] and ancient home of the [[Tiste Edur]]. The realm had been shattered<ref>[[Stonewielder]], [[SW/8|Chapter 8]], US HC p.399</ref><ref name=":2">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.41</ref> and abandoned by the Edur a long time before the series began; for which, according to [[Silchas Ruin]], [[Scabandari Bloodeye]] himself was to blame.<ref>[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/P|Prologue]], US SFBC p.22</ref> Despite being unable to return, the Edur were still able to use various fragments of the Warren for their sorcery.<ref name=":2" /> Known fragments were located in the [[Cloud Forest]], [[Nascent|the Nascent]], [[Raraku]], [[Tremorlor]], [[Drift Avalii]], and several on the [[Lether]] continent. The remaining fragments were of varying size and power and believed to be ruled by false kings and [[gods]].<ref name=":3">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.49</ref><ref name=":2" /> The last full unveiling of Kurald Emurlahn had been performed by Father Shadow before the warren's sundering.<ref name=":3" />
 +
'''Kurald Emurlahn''' [Ker-ahld Em-er-lawn]<ref>[https://anchor.fm/tenverybigbooks/episodes/Steven-Erikson-Interview---GotMs-20th-Anniversary-e8spi3 Ten Very Big Books podcast] As pronounced by Steven Erikson at 01:18:35</ref> was the [[Elder warren]] of [[Shadow]] and ancient home of the [[Tiste Edur]]. Some referred to it as the Broken Realm.<ref>[[Deadhouse Landing]], [[DHL/8|Chapter 8]], US HC p.154</ref> The realm had been shattered<ref>[[Stonewielder]], [[SW/8|Chapter 8]], US HC p.399</ref><ref name=":2">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.41</ref> and abandoned by the Edur hundreds of thousands of years before the series began.<ref name=":5" /> Since then, many pretenders had tried to claim possession of the [[Warren]], but none had succeeded for long.<ref>[[Night of Knives]], [[NK/3|Chapter 3]]</ref> The realm's most recent rulers were [[Ammanas]] and his companion, [[Cotillion]], who ruled from [[Shadowkeep]].
   
  +
According to [[Silchas Ruin]], [[Scabandari Bloodeye]], Father Shadow himself, was to blame for the Warren's shattering.<ref name=":5">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/P|Prologue]], US SFBC p.22</ref> Despite being unable to return, the Edur were still able to use various fragments of the Warren for their sorcery.<ref name=":2" /> Known fragments were located in the [[Cloud Forest]], [[Nascent|the Nascent]], [[Raraku]], [[Tremorlor]], [[Drift Avalii]], and several on the [[Lether]] continent. The remaining fragments were of varying size and power and believed to be ruled by false kings and [[gods]].<ref name=":3">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.49</ref><ref name=":2" /> The last full unveiling of Kurald Emurlahn had been performed by Father Shadow before the warren's sundering.<ref name=":3" />
−
According to [[Quick Ben]], the true Warren of Shadow had been inaccessible (likely meaning to humans) for millennia until 1154 [[BS]].<ref>[[Gardens of the Moon]], [[GM/4|Chapter 4]], UK MMPB p.132</ref> Though generally inaccessible to [[humans]], the Elder Warren was said to be riven through with the human [[warren]] of shadow, [[Meanas]].
 
   
−
Shadow was a Warren known for breaking the rules and for slipping its boundaries.<ref>[[Gardens of the Moon]], [[GM/3|Chapter 3]], UK MMPB p.110</ref>
 +
According to [[Quick Ben]], the true Warren of Shadow had been inaccessible (likely meaning to humans) for millennia until 1154 [[BS]],<ref>[[Gardens of the Moon]], [[GM/4|Chapter 4]], UK MMPB p.132</ref> which was around the time that Ammanas and Cotillion had appeared. Though generally inaccessible to [[humans]], the Elder Warren was said to be riven through with the human Warren of Shadow, [[Meanas]].
  +
  +
Shadow was a Warren known for breaking the rules and for slipping its boundaries.<ref>[[Gardens of the Moon]], [[GM/3|Chapter 3]], UK MMPB p.110</ref> It held uncounted layers and its fragments were far more extensive than one might expect.<ref name=":7" /> Its landscape was ever in motion and ever changing, although not when one was actually looking at it.<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":6">[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/2|Chapter 2]], US SFBC p.71</ref> Its night sky was never darker than slate grey and its air was turgid and warm.<ref name=":7">[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.50</ref>
  +
  +
The native [[Demons]] seemed to pay little attention to the realm's current rulers, instead focusing on feuds and raids with their neighbors.<ref name=":6" /> Although, Cotillion believed Ammanas could command them if he chose.<ref name=":6" /> Both Ammanas and Cotillion seemed capable of ordering the realm's guardians, the [[Hounds of Shadow]].
  +
  +
Although there was no distinct [[Azath House]] in Shadow, virtually every permanent feature held some anonymous demon, [[ascendant]], revenant, or wraith in unbreakable chains. Such prisons were tied to menhirs, tumuli, ancient trees, stone walls, boulders, or even buried in the dust.<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/1|Chapter 1]], US SFBC p.64</ref>
   
 
==Natives==
  
==Natives==
 
*[[Aptorian]]
  
*[[Aptorian]]
  +
*[[Artorallah]]
 
*[[Azalan]]
  
*[[Azalan]]
  ⚫
*[[Dinal]]<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/17|Chapter 17]], US SFBC p.693</ref>
 
*[[Edgewalker]]
  
*[[Edgewalker]]
 
*[[Hounds of Shadow]]
  
*[[Hounds of Shadow]]
 
*[[Kenyll'rah]]<ref name=":1">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/19|Chapter 19]], US SFBC p.569</ref>
  
*[[Kenyll'rah]]<ref name=":1">[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/19|Chapter 19]], US SFBC p.569</ref>
−
*[[Kenryll'ah]]<ref name=":1" />
 +
*[[Kenryll'ah]]<ref name=":1" /><ref>[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/21|Chapter 21]], US SFBC p.638</ref>
  +
*[[Koro]]
⚫
*[[Korvalahrai]]<ref name=":1" /><ref>[[Midnight Tides]], [[MT/21|Chapter 21]], US SFBC p.638</ref>
  
  +
*[[Que'tezani]]
  +
*[[Xethel]]
   
 
==In ''[[Midnight Tides]]''==
  
==In ''[[Midnight Tides]]''==
Line 24: Line 34:
   
 
==In ''[[The Bonehunters]]''==
  
==In ''[[The Bonehunters]]''==
−
It was there that [[Apsalar]] freed the two [[Soletaken]] mischief makers [[Telorast]] and [[Curdle]].
 +
It was in Shadow that [[Apsalar]] discovered and freed the two [[Soletaken]] mischief makers [[Telorast]] and [[Curdle]], who had been captured attempting to steal the rumoured riches of the Shadowkeep.<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/1|Chapter 1]]</ref>
  +
  +
[[Edgewalker]] followed Cotillion to a stone circle in the Shadow Realm where the three Eleint, [[Ampelas]], [[Eloth]], and [[Kalse]], were chained. The Eleint revealed that they had long ago attempted to seize the [[Throne of Shadow]] and heal the sundered warren, but were stopped by the vengeance of Anomandaris and his Tiste Andii. Their attackers were thorough in their destruction of Kurald Emurlahn, insisting the throne remain unclaimed, and resulting in the imprisonment of the three Eleint. One of the Eleint also revealed the the sundering of Kurald Emurlahn continued to this day and that the fragment claimed by the usurper Ammanas did not contain the true throne.<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/2|Chapter 2]], US SFBC p.76-78</ref>
  +
  +
Eloth went on to reveal that Scabandari had murdered the royal line of the Edur, spilled draconean blood in the heart of Kurald Emurlahn, and opened the first fatal wound that led to the Warren's demise.<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/2|Chapter 2]], US SFBC p.78</ref>
  +
  +
Letherii emperor, Rhulad Sengar, allied with the Crippled God and directed many attacks against the Tiste Andii defenders of the Throne of Shadow on Drift Avalii. One of those raiders, [[Ahlrada Ahn]], called the Throne the Seat of Shadow and the soul of Kurald Emurlahn. If the sundered realm was ever to be made whole again, then the Edur would need to control the Throne. Once returned to what it once was, the warren would seethe with power for the Edur and could perhaps remove Rhulad's curse. [[Shadowthrone]] used his magic to trick the Edur into thinking the Throne had been destroyed. Ahlrada Ahn's group found only its shattered remains, but this was an illusion.<ref>[[The Bonehunters]], [[BH/21|Chapter 21]], US SFBC p.814/816</ref>
   
 
==In ''[[Night of Knives]]''==
  
==In ''[[Night of Knives]]''==

Revision as of 03:22, 5 May 2020

Kurald Emurlahn [Ker-ahld Em-er-lawn][1] was the Elder warren of Shadow and ancient home of the Tiste Edur. Some referred to it as the Broken Realm.[2] The realm had been shattered[3][4] and abandoned by the Edur hundreds of thousands of years before the series began.[5] Since then, many pretenders had tried to claim possession of the Warren, but none had succeeded for long.[6] The realm's most recent rulers were Ammanas and his companion, Cotillion, who ruled from Shadowkeep.

According to Silchas Ruin, Scabandari Bloodeye, Father Shadow himself, was to blame for the Warren's shattering.[5] Despite being unable to return, the Edur were still able to use various fragments of the Warren for their sorcery.[4] Known fragments were located in the Cloud Forest, the Nascent, Raraku, Tremorlor, Drift Avalii, and several on the Lether continent. The remaining fragments were of varying size and power and believed to be ruled by false kings and gods.[7][4] The last full unveiling of Kurald Emurlahn had been performed by Father Shadow before the warren's sundering.[7]

According to Quick Ben, the true Warren of Shadow had been inaccessible (likely meaning to humans) for millennia until 1154 BS,[8] which was around the time that Ammanas and Cotillion had appeared. Though generally inaccessible to humans, the Elder Warren was said to be riven through with the human Warren of Shadow, Meanas.

Shadow was a Warren known for breaking the rules and for slipping its boundaries.[9] It held uncounted layers and its fragments were far more extensive than one might expect.[10] Its landscape was ever in motion and ever changing, although not when one was actually looking at it.[10][11] Its night sky was never darker than slate grey and its air was turgid and warm.[10]

The native Demons seemed to pay little attention to the realm's current rulers, instead focusing on feuds and raids with their neighbors.[11] Although, Cotillion believed Ammanas could command them if he chose.[11] Both Ammanas and Cotillion seemed capable of ordering the realm's guardians, the Hounds of Shadow.

Although there was no distinct Azath House in Shadow, virtually every permanent feature held some anonymous demon, ascendant, revenant, or wraith in unbreakable chains. Such prisons were tied to menhirs, tumuli, ancient trees, stone walls, boulders, or even buried in the dust.[12]

Natives

In Midnight Tides

Kurald Emurlahn was sundered hundreds of thousands of years before the events of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Silchas Ruin claimed the rivening had happened at Scabandari's own hand. Scabandari and his people fled Kurald Emurlahn's rivening and joined Silchas Ruin's army to invade the Malazan world and claim a new realm.[14]

During Emperor Rhulad Sengar's war against the Kingdom of Lether, he intervened in the war between two groups of Shadow Demons, the Kenryll'ah and the Korvalahrai. In order to gain Kenryll'ah troops for his army, Rhulad sent the Chirahd River through a rent destroying the Korvalahrai fleet and flooding the fragment of Kurald Emurlahn known as the Nascent.[16]

Warlock King Hannan Mosag claimed that Tiste Edur survivors were scattered following the loss of Father Shadow and remained in some of the warren's fragments. Many had forgetten their pasts or been subjugated by whatever powers now controlled their fragment. Emperor Rhulad made plans to build ships to sail the flooded Nascent to quickly travel to gates between fragments and rescue their kin.[17][18]

The Errant claimed the history of the Edur's path of sorcery was tied to the succession of disasters that befell the First Empire.[19]

In The Bonehunters

It was in Shadow that Apsalar discovered and freed the two Soletaken mischief makers Telorast and Curdle, who had been captured attempting to steal the rumoured riches of the Shadowkeep.[20]

Edgewalker followed Cotillion to a stone circle in the Shadow Realm where the three Eleint, Ampelas, Eloth, and Kalse, were chained. The Eleint revealed that they had long ago attempted to seize the Throne of Shadow and heal the sundered warren, but were stopped by the vengeance of Anomandaris and his Tiste Andii. Their attackers were thorough in their destruction of Kurald Emurlahn, insisting the throne remain unclaimed, and resulting in the imprisonment of the three Eleint. One of the Eleint also revealed the the sundering of Kurald Emurlahn continued to this day and that the fragment claimed by the usurper Ammanas did not contain the true throne.[21]

Eloth went on to reveal that Scabandari had murdered the royal line of the Edur, spilled draconean blood in the heart of Kurald Emurlahn, and opened the first fatal wound that led to the Warren's demise.[22]

Letherii emperor, Rhulad Sengar, allied with the Crippled God and directed many attacks against the Tiste Andii defenders of the Throne of Shadow on Drift Avalii. One of those raiders, Ahlrada Ahn, called the Throne the Seat of Shadow and the soul of Kurald Emurlahn. If the sundered realm was ever to be made whole again, then the Edur would need to control the Throne. Once returned to what it once was, the warren would seethe with power for the Edur and could perhaps remove Rhulad's curse. Shadowthrone used his magic to trick the Edur into thinking the Throne had been destroyed. Ahlrada Ahn's group found only its shattered remains, but this was an illusion.[23]

In Night of Knives

Edgewalker was an ancient inhabitant of the realm who also sought to keep mundane battles from 'bleeding in'.

In Return of the Crimson Guard

Kyle had a dream in which Liossercal and Anomandaris argued over the fate of a newly born crystal structure they termed a house (possibly an Azath House or house of Shadow). Anomandaris claimed the "house is of Emurlahn and Emurlahn exists as proof of the accord between our Realms. Threaten one and you threaten all."[24]

Speculations

Speculated fragments include Mappo Runt's travel sack and the Crippled God's tent.

Quotes

"In [the Shadow Realm], as you know, things can be in two places at once, or begin in one yet find itself eventually manifesting in another. Shadow wanders, and respects no borders."
―Icarium[src]
"Shadow is something of the rubbish heap of time. Over the ages whatever others want hidden, or buried away, into Shadow it goes."
―Warran[src]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Ten Very Big Books podcast As pronounced by Steven Erikson at 01:18:35
  2. ↑ Deadhouse Landing, Chapter 8, US HC p.154
  3. ↑ Stonewielder, Chapter 8, US HC p.399
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Midnight Tides, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.41
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Midnight Tides, Prologue, US SFBC p.22
  6. ↑ Night of Knives, Chapter 3
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Midnight Tides, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.49
  8. ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 4, UK MMPB p.132
  9. ↑ Gardens of the Moon, Chapter 3, UK MMPB p.110
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 The Bonehunters, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.50
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.71
  12. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.64
  13. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 17, US SFBC p.693
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Midnight Tides, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.569 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name ":1" defined multiple times with different content
  15. ↑ Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.638
  16. ↑ Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.635-638/644
  17. ↑ Midnight Tides, Chapter 19, US SFBC p.569-570
  18. ↑ Midnight Tides, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.644
  19. ↑ Midnight Tides, Chapter 20, US SFBC p.607
  20. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 1
  21. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.76-78
  22. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.78
  23. ↑ The Bonehunters, Chapter 21, US SFBC p.814/816
  24. ↑ Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 3, UK PB p.358
List of abbreviations • Paginations • How to reference an article
Deutsch Polski
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
More Fandoms