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Stacker was a Corporal in Sergeant Moak's 11th Medium infantry squad in the 8th Legion of the Malaz 14th Army.[1][2]

In House of Chains[]

Stacker was part of Adjunct Tavore Paran's punitive expedition against the Army of the Apocalypse. On the road from Aren to Raraku, he, Moak, and Burnt had done their share of the fighting, and their names were well known amongst the other soldiers in the legion.[1]

In The Bonehunters[]

After the Battle of Raraku, Leoman led the Army of the Apocalypse westward to Y'Ghatan and the 14th Army followed. Upon reaching the outskirts of the city, Moak prepared a stew for his squad using a ripened fish he had carried for weeks. When his squad all "got the squats", he blamed it on their weak stomachs while a true soldier like himself suffered only from belches that smelled of rotting fish guts.[3]

In the hours before the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan, Moak engaged Sergeant Balm in a game of Troughs, but Balm soon became disoriented, unclear who he was and what he was doing. Balm's corporal, Deadsmell, led him to safety from an angry Moak, who claimed Balm had cursed him and his squad since Moak had been winning. Stacker calmed his sergeant by identifying Balm's malady as "the Confusion", a condition developed by some just before battle.[4]

Adjunct Tavore Paran launched the attack on Y'Ghatan by sending the army's sappers to breach the city's wall under the cover of night. First into the city were the Malazan marines, followed quickly by the heavy and medium infantry. Barely a street in and fearing an ambush, Sergeant Gesler called up Moak's squad as well as Thom Tissy's sappers and Tugg's heavies to clear the surrounding buildings. In the fighting that followed, the poorly trained sappers misfired their munitions. One shrieking sapper exited the building fully aflame. As Moak's squad went to help him, the sapper's munitions satchel went off killing Stacker and Moak's entire squad.[5]

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