A woman with no gifts of magic, deemed plain, unprepossessing, displaying nothing to instill loyalty or confidence, Tavore Paran of House Paran means to challenge the gods – if her own troops don’t kill her first.Īwaiting Tavore and her allies are the Forkrul Assail, the final arbiters of humanity. One final act remains, if it is in her power, if she can hold her army together, if the shaky allegiances she has forged can survive all that is to come. Tormented by questions, the army totters on the edge of mutiny, but Adjunct Tavore will not relent. Savaged by the K’Chain Nah’Ruk, the Bonehunters march for Kolanse, where waits an unknown fate. And when this last hard truth is faced, when compassion is a virtue on its knees, what is there left to do?Now that time is come – now is the moment to proclaim your defiance and make a stand…Īnd so begins the final cataclysmic chapter in Steven Erikson’s extraordinary, genre-defining ‘Malazan Book of the Fallen’. In every world there comes a time when choice is no longer an option – a moment when the soul is laid bare and there is nowhere left to turn. Are they truly ready to die in the name of an empty city and a queen with no subjects? Commanded by Yedan Derryg, they await the coming of the Tiste Liosan. It seems that, once more, there will be dragons in the world.Īnd in Kurald Galain, where the once-lost city of Kharkanas has been found, thousands have gathered upon the First Shore. And to do so, they will shatter the chains that bind a force of utter devastation and release her from her eternal prison. The Elder Gods, too, are seeking to return. The Fokrul Assail are drawing upon a terrible power their desire is to cleanse the world – to eradicate every civilization, to annihilate every human – in order to begin anew. Ranged against Tavore and her allies are formidable foes. For Tavore Paran means to challenge the gods.

Tormented and exhausted, they are an army on the brink of mutiny.But Adjunct Tavore will not relent.If she can hold her forces together, if the fragile alliances she has forged can survive and if it is within her power, one final act remains.

The Bonehunters are marching to Kolanse, and to an unknown fate.

The Crippled God by Steven Erikson