Silver Lake

Northwest Genabackis

Silver Lake was a Nathii settlement on a glacial lake by the same name east of the Laederon Plateau (home of the Teblor tribes) in northwestern Genabackis. Its northern shore was a tumble of boreal forest crisscrossed by by a succession of ravines and ridges running east-west below the southern edge of the Godswalk Mountains. The woods were the winter home of tens of thousands of caribou from the Toblai Tundra to the north, who were prized by the settlement's hunters. To the south of the lake was pastureland and vast swathes where forest once had been. Fishermen plied the waters for eels, sturgeon, and other fish.

The settlement had been captured as part of the Malazan conquest and the residents lived uneasily with a Malazan garrison.

A raised, cobbled imperial road connected Silver Lake to Culvern. Starting from the town's New Gate, it led west along the lake's southern shore and over a bridge spanning Foul Creek. Eventually it angled southwest across an ancient floodplain that had been deforested to make room for small peasant farms before it paralleled the Culvern River heading south. The road was said to have been built by the Bridgeburners during the Genabackis Campaign.

Somewhere in the vicinity was the settlement of Orbs.

Known residents

Northwest Genabackis - Late Empire

• Arko, fisherman
• Astabb, slaver
• Borrug, slaver
• Capor, fisherman
• Balantis, merchant
• Damisk, hunter, slave tracker, and guide
• Dog-Boy, injured young man
• Drunk Menger, owner of the Three-Legged Dog
• Rant, half-Teblor boy
• Sarlis, Rant's mother
• Silgar, slave master
• Silgar Younger, mayor
• Storp, owner of the Black Eel
• Vihune, fisherman

Notable locations

• Black Eel, tavern
• Buyer's Field
• Factor's house
• Malazan Garrison
• New Gate
• Three-Legged Dog, tavern
• Waiting House, slave pen

Streets and Roads

• Centre Street
• Front Street
• Inland Road
• Shore Road

In House of Chains

At the time of Pahlk Orlong's famous raid, it had consisted of a lone farm with a few families. When Karsa Orlong returned, four centuries later, it had grown into a full-sized, walled town with hundreds of inhabitants.

The current settlement was home to slavers such as Master Silgar, who raided the eastern edges of the Teblor lands to supply the town's fishing industry with workers. The slavers were so successful that they essentially depopulated the Sunyd tribal lands and had designs on the others. Some believed no more free Teblor would live on the plateau within a century.

At the time of Karsa's arrival, a Malazan company, part of the Ashok Regiment, was readying to leave for Bettrys. They had been summoned home to Seven Cities based on rumours of rebellion there.

In The God is Not Willing

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History

Long before the Nathii settled the area and before there was even a lake, Silver Lake had been a valley known to the indigenous people as Tarthen'ignial'--meaning The Valley of the Tarthen Stones. It had been a sacred place with tall stones running the length of the valley. At the valley's centre was a mound of Tartheno and Imass skulls. The Korhivi believed the Imass skulls remained alive, looking upon their flooded world and waiting for boaters and fisherman to drown and join them. The Saemdhi feared the waters.

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