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In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of what will prove to be an extraordinary destiny.Some years later, it is the aftermath of the Chain of Dogs. Tavore, the Adjunct to the Empress, has arrived in the last remaining Malazan stronghold of Seven Cities. New to command, she must hone twelve thousand soldiers, mostly raw recruits but for a handful of veterans of Coltaines legendary march, into a force capable of challenging the massed hordes of Shaiks Whirlwind who lie in wait in the heart of the Holy Desert.But waiting is never easy. The seers warlords are locked into a power struggle that threatens the very soul of the rebellion, while Shaik herself suffers, haunted by the knowledge of her nemesis: her own sister, Tavore.And so begins this awesome new chapter in Steven Eriksons acclaimed Malazan Book of the Fallen . . .

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House of Chains
Tor Books by Steven Erikson

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Memories of Ice

House of Chains

STEVEN ERIKSON
House of Chains

BOOK FOUR OF THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN

For M ARK P AXTON M AC R AE for the KO punch This ones all yours my friend - photo 1

For M ARK P AXTON M AC R AE, for the KO punch. This ones all yours, my friend.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank his cadre of readers, Chris Porozny, Richard Jones, David Keck and Mark Paxton MacRae. Clare and Bowen as always. Simon Taylor and the crew at Transworld. And the terrific (and patient) staff at Tonys Bar Italia: Erica, Steve, Jesse, Dan, Ron, Orville, Rhimpy, Rhea, Cam, James, Konrad, Darren, Rusty, Phil, Todd, Marnie, Chris, Leah, Ada, Kevin, Jake, Jamie, Graeme and the two Doms. Thanks also to Darren Nash (for the yeast always rises) and Peter Crowther.

Contents
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Dramatis Personae The Uryd Tribe of the Teblor - photo 2

Dramatis Personae The Uryd Tribe of the Teblor Karsa Orlong a young - photo 3

Dramatis Personae The Uryd Tribe of the Teblor Karsa Orlong a young - photo 4

Dramatis Personae The Uryd Tribe of the Teblor Karsa Orlong a young - photo 5

Dramatis Personae

The Uryd Tribe of the Teblor

Karsa Orlong, a young warrior

Bairoth Gild, a young warrior

Delum Thord, a young warrior

Dayliss, a young woman

Pahlk, Karsas grandfather

Synyg, Karsas father

The Adjuncts Army

Adjunct Tavore

Fist Gamet/Gimlet

Tamber

Fist Tene Baralta

Fist Blistig

Captain Keneb

Grub, his adopted son

Admiral Nok

Commander Alardis

Nil, a Wickan warlock

Nether, a Wickan witch

Temul, a Wickan of the Crow Clan (survivor of the Chain of Dogs)

Squint, a soldier in the Aren Guard

Pearl, a Claw

Lostara Yil, an officer in the Red Blades

Gall, Warleader of the Khundryl Burned Tears

Imrahl, a warrior of the Khundryl Burned Tears

Topper, the Clawmaster

Marines of the 9th Company, 8th Legion

Lieutenant Ranal

Sergeant Strings

Sergeant Gesler

Sergeant Borduke

Corporal Tarr

Corporal Stormy

Corporal Hubb

Bottle, a squad mage

Smiles

Koryk, a half-Seti soldier

Cuttle, a sapper

Truth

Pella

Tavos Pond

Sands

Balgrid

Ibb

Maybe

Lutes

Selected Heavy Infantry of the 9th Company, 8th Legion

Sergeant Mosel

Sergeant Sobelone

Sergeant Tugg

Flashwit

Uru Hela

Bowl

Shortnose

Selected Medium Infantry of the 9th Company, 8th Legion

Sergeant Balm

Sergeant Moak

Sergeant Thom Tissy

Corporal Deadsmell

Corporal Burnt

Corporal Tulip

Throatslitter

Widdershins

Galt

Lobe

Stacker

Ramp

Able

Other Soldiers of the Malazan Empire

Sergeant Cord, 2nd Company, Ashok Regiment

Ebron, 5th squad, mage

Limp, 5th squad

Bell, 5th squad

Corporal Shard, 5th squad

Captain Kindly, 2nd Company

Lieutenant Pores, 2nd Company

Jibb, Ehrlitan Guard

Gullstream, Ehrlitan Guard

Scrawl, Ehrlitan Guard

Master Sergeant Braven Tooth, Malaz City Garrison

Captain Irriz, renegade

Sinn, refugee

Gentur

Mudslinger

Hawl

Nathii

Slavemaster Silgar

Damisk

Balantis

Astabb

Borrug

Others on Genabackis

Torvald Nom

Calm

Ganal

Shaiks Army of the Apocalypse

Shaik, The Chosen One of the Whirlwind Goddess (once Felisin of House Paran)

Felisin Younger, her adopted daughter

Toblakai

Leoman of the Flails

High Mage Loric

High Mage Bidithal

High Mage Febryl

Heboric Ghost Hands

Kamist Reloe, Korbolo Doms mage

Henaras, a sorceress

Fayelle, a sorceress

Mathok, Warleader of the Desert Tribes

Tmorol, his bodyguard

Corabb Bhilan Thenualas, an officer in Leomans company

Scillara, a camp follower

Duryl, a messenger

Ethume, a corporal

Korbolo Dom, a renegade Napan

Kasanal, his hired assassin

Others

Kalam Mekhar, an assassin

Trull Sengar, a Tiste Edur

Onrack, a Tlan Imass

Cutter, an assassin (also known as Crokus )

Apsalar, an assassin

Rellock, Apsalars father

Cotillion, Patron of Assassins

Traveller

Rood, a Hound of Shadow

Blind, a Hound of Shadow

Darist, a Tiste Andii

Baienrok (Keeper), a hermit

Ibra Gholan, a Tlan Imass Clan Leader

Monok Ochem, a Bonecaster of the Logros Tlan Imass

Haran Epal, a Tlan Imass

Olar Shayn, a Tlan Imass

Greyfrog, a demon familiar

Apt, a matron demon (Aptorian) of Shadow

Azalan, a demon of Shadow

Panek, a child of Shadow

Mebra, a spy in Ehrlitan

Iskaral Pust, a priest of Shadow

Mogora, his Divers wife

Cynnigig, a Jaghut

Phyrlis, a Jaghut

Aramala, a Jaghut

Icarium, a Jhag

Mappo Runt, a Trell

Jorrude, a Tiste Liosan Seneschal

Malachar, a Tiste Liosan

Enias, a Tiste Liosan

Orenas, a Tiste Liosan

Prologue

Verge of the Nascent, the 943rd Day of the Search
Burns Sleep

Grey, bloated and pocked, the bodies lined the silt-laden shoreline for as far as the eye could see. Heaped like driftwood by the rising water, bobbing and rolling on the edges, the putrefying flesh seethed with black-shelled, ten-legged crabs. The coin-sized creatures had scarcely begun to make inroads on the bounteous feast the warrens sundering had laid before them.

The sea mirrored the low skys hue. Dull, patched pewter above and below, broken only by the deeper grey of silts and, thirty strokes of the oar distant, the smeared ochre tones of the barely visible upper levels of a citys inundated buildings. The storms had passed, the waters were calm amidst the wreckage of a drowned world.

Short, squat had been the inhabitants. Flat-featured, the pale hair left long and loose. Their world had been a cold one, given the thick-padded clothing they had worn. But with the sundering that had changed, cataclysmically. The air was sultry, damp and now foul with the reek of decay.

The sea had been born of a river on another realm. A massive, wide and probably continent-spanning artery of fresh water, heavy with a plains silts, the murky depths home to huge catfish and wagon-wheeled-sized spiders, its shallows crowded with the crabs and carnivorous, rootless plants. The river had poured its torrential volume onto this vast, level landscape. Days, then weeks, then months.

Storms, conjured by the volatile clash of tropical air-streams with the resident temperate climate, had driven the flood on beneath shrieking winds, and before the inexorably rising waters came deadly plagues to take those who had not drowned.

Somehow, the rent had closed sometime in the night just past. The river from another realm had been returned to its original path.

The shoreline ahead probably did not deserve the word, but nothing else came to Trull Sengars mind as he was dragged along its verge. The beach was nothing more than silt, heaped against a huge wall that seemed to stretch from horizon to horizon. The wall had withstood the flood, though water now streamed down it on the opposite side.

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