The Crippled God/Chapter 15

The Crippled God
Dramatis Personae	Pagination
"He was a soldier"
Chapter 1	Chapter 2
Chapter 3	Chapter 4
All the takers of my days
Chapter 5	Chapter 6
Chapter 7
To charge the spear
Chapter 8	Chapter 9
Chapter 10
The fists of the world
Chapter 11	Chapter 12
Chapter 13
A hand upon the fates
Chapter 14	Chapter 15
Chapter 16
To one in chains
Chapter 17	Chapter 18
Chapter 19	Chapter 20
Your private shore
Chapter 21	Chapter 22
Chapter 23	Chapter 24
Epilogue I	Epilogue II

Epigraph

And all the ages past Have nothing to say They rest easy underfoot Uttering not a whisper They are dead as the eyes That looked upon them Riding the dust that gathers In lost and forgotten corners You won't find them Scratched in scrolls Or between the bindings Of leather-bound tomes Not once carved On stelae and stone walls They do not hide Waiting to be found Like treasures of truth Or holy revelation Not one of the ages past Will descend from the heavens Cupped in the hand Of a god or clutched tight By a stumbling prophet All these ages past Remain for ever untouched With lessons unlearned By the fool who can do nothing But stare ahead To where stands the future Grinning with empty eyes Helpless Days Fisher kel Tath

The battle on the First Shore continues. Wave after wave of Liosan troops attack and are repulsed. One of their Soletaken leaders goes through the breach in dragon form; Yedan Derryg kills him with his Hust sword. Four Hounds of Light attack and are also killed by him, but not before slaughtering many defenders. Another dragon attacks and is killed too.

Back in Kharkanas, Queen Sandalath Drukorlat is losing touch with reality, due to her ancient memories of the city and the strain of waiting on the throne while the Shake die in her place. She determines that the Liosal will not take the city, preferring to burn it herself.