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Revision as of 14:06, 2 November 2011
Stonewielder is the third novel by Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont. It is set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume epic fantasy series by Esslemont's friend and colleague Steven Erikson. Esslemont and Erikson co-created the Malazan world in the 1980s.
Greymane believed he'd outrun his past. He now ran a school for swordsmanship in Falar and was looking forward to becoming fat and lazy. With him was Kyle, though the plains youth was not quite so contented with civilian life outside the mercenary company the Crimson Guard. Yet it is not so easy to disappear when you are an ex-Fist of the Malazan Empire, especially one denounced and under a death-sentence from that very Empire.
For there is a new Emperor on the throne of Malaz, and his thoughts turn to the lingering drain of blood and treasure that is the failed invasion of the Korel subcontinent. In the record vaults beneath Unta, the Imperial capital, lie the answers to that disaster. And out of this buried history surfaces the name Stonewielder.
In Korel, Lord Protector Hiam, commander of the Stormguard, faces the potential annihilation of all that he loves as with the blood of his few remaining men and a crumbling stone wall that has seen better days, he labours to stave off the sea-borne Stormriders who would destroy his lands.
Meanwhile, religious war has broken out all across these lands as the local cult of the Blessed Lady, who has stood firm for millennia against the assaults of the Stormriders, seeks to stamp out all rivals; a champion refuses to stand against the alien 'Riders' and takes up arms in rebellion; and a local magistrate innocently pursuing the mystery of a series of murders is brought to the very heart of a far larger and far more terrifying ancient crime that has stained the entire subcontinent.
Dramatis Personae
Of the Malazan Expeditionary Force
- Greymane / Orjin Samarr – High Fist, Commander of the Expeditionary Force
- Kyle – Adjunct to the High Fist
- Nok – Admiral, Commander of Naval forces
- Swirl – Admiral of Moranth Blue forces
- Rillish Jal Keth – Divisional Fist of the Fourth Army
- Khemet Shul – Divisional Fist of the Eighth Army
- Devaleth – Cadre mage
Malazan 17th Squad, 4th Company, 2nd Division, Fourth Army
- Betteries – Company Captain
- Goss – Sergeant
- Pyke – Heavy infantry
- Yana – Heavy infantry
- Suth – Heavy infantry
- Lard – Heavy infantry
- Dim – Heavy infantry
- Wess – Heavy infantry
- Len – Saboteur
- Keri – Saboteur
- Faro – Scout
Others
- Urfa – Lieutenant of the 4th Company saboteurs
- Twofoot – Sergeant of the 6th
- Coral – Sergeant of the 20th
- Tolat – A barghast scout of the 4th Company
Of the Malazan Sixth Army
- Yeull 'ul Taith – Overlord
- Ussü – High Mage and Advisor
- Borun – Commander of Black Moranth
- Eneth-jer – Envoy of the Overlord
On the Stormwall
- Hiam – Lord Protector of the Stormwall, Commander of all Korelri
- Quint – Senior officer (Wall Marshall) of the Stormwall
- Shool – Aide to Hiam
- Toral Stimins – Master Engineer
- Iron Bars – Champion of the Stormwall, and Crimson Guard Avowed
- Corlo – A prisoner and Crimson Guardsman
- Jemain – A prisoner and a member of Bars' crew
- Hagen – Ex-Champion of the Stormwall
- Tollen – A Malazan prisoner
In the Kingdom of Rool
- Bakune – Chief Assessor of Banith
- Kerien'el – Lieutenant, later Captain, of the City Watch
- Hyuke – A city watchman
- Puller – A city watchman
- Starvann Arl – Abbott of Our Lady the Saviour Cloister and Hospice
- Ipshank – An ex-priest of Fener
- Manask – A thief
Of the Jourilan Army of Reform
- Beneth – Spiritual leader
- Hegil Lesour 'an 'al – Commander of the cavalry
- Martal – Commander of the army, the "Black Queen"
- Ivanr – Ex-Grand Champion of the Jourilan Imperial Games
- Carr – A lieutenant of the army
Of the Crimson Guard
The Synod of Stygg
In the Shadow Realm
- Kiska – One-time bodyguard to Tayschrenn, High Mage of the Empire
- Jheval – An agent of the Queen of Dreams