The Crippled God/Chapter 1

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

If you never knew the worlds in my mind your sense of loss would be small pity and we'll forget this on the trail. Take what you're given and turn away the screwed face. I do not deserve it, no matter how narrow the strand of your private shore. If you will do your best I'll meet your eye. It's the clutch of arrows in hand that I do not trust bent to the smile hitching my way. We aren't meeting in sorrow or some other suture bridging scares. We haven't danced the same thin ice and my sympathy for your troubles I give freely without thought of reciprocity or scales on balance. It's the decent thing, that's all Even if that thing is a stranger to so many. But there will be secrets you never knew and I would not choose any other way. All my arrows are burried and the sandy reach is broad and all that's private cools pinned on the alter. Even the drips are gone, that child of wants with a mind full of worlds and his reddened tears. The days I feel mortal I so hate. The days in my worlds, are where I live for ever, and should dawn ever arrive I will to its light awaken as one reborn. Poet's Night iii.iv The Malazan Book of the Fallen Fisher kel Tath

Calm, a Forkrul Assail Pure, walks through the Wastelands of the continent of Lether, trailing chains made from the bones of her ancestors. She reaches the unconscious body of Icarium and uses the chains to bind him and keep him unconscious.

Some Tiste Liosan led by Kadagar Fant, who styles himself Lord of Light, has trapped the Eleint Kessobahn. They drink his blood, so becoming Soletaken able to veer to dragon form. They do so and kill Kessobahn.

Cotillion visits three chained Eleint, Eloth, Kalse and Ampelas. He bargains with them, offering freedom.

Mael carries a corpse along the bottom of an ocean. He delivers it to K'rul. They discuss the Bonehunter disaster with regret, and appear to blame Errastas for nudging its occurrence.

Udinaas is told by Kilava Onass to lead the Imass out of the Refugium and into the world, while she remains to fight approaching enemies.

Using a warren, Ganoes Paran has transported his Malazan 5th army Host from Aren to North Citadel, the second city of Kolanse, and taken it. They are now besieged in the city by Kolansii troops from the south, led by Watered.

Apsal'ara, released from Dragnipur, arrives in Black Coral and appoints herself advisor to Nimander. She suggests leaving the city.