The Crippled God/Chapter 9

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

I am fallen prey There was a time When fangs sank deep My body dragged And flesh howled Fear's face was cold With instinct's need There was a time When strangers took me And the unfamiliar Whispered terror And the shock of desires We could not expect Lit eyes so like our own There was a time When a friend twisted Before my eyes And all my solid faiths Washed free underfoot Unknowing the world With new and cruel design There was a time When kin drew the knife To sever sacred law With red envy And red malice The horror visits The heart of home Do you see this journey? What began in shadows And dark distance Has drawn ever closer Now I am fallen prey To the demon in my soul And the face twisting Is my own Railing at failures Of flesh and bone The spirit withers And I fall prey We have listed A world of enemies And now we fall prey We fall prey Faces of Fear Fisher kel Tath

Olar Ethil tries to contact Onos T'oolan telepathically to persuade him to join with her. He resists her attempts, and her subsequent mental attack is repelled by a line of undead Bridgeburners led by Whiskeyjack.

Sister Equity, a Forkrul Assail Pure , has detected Princess Felash's use of an Elder warren and goes to investigate. She hopes to find allies to use against Sister Reverence, her leader, who wants to destroy all of humanity. When she arrives she is attacked first by the sailors, who are quickly killed, and then by Felash and her handmaiden which results in stalemate. She asks about the Elder warren, disbelieving that it's Omtose Phellack. Felash invokes the warren; from it emerges Hood, who kills Equity.