Name: Harllo
Pseudonyms: Harllo Younger
Age: a young boy, about 5 - 6 years old
Race: human
Appearance:
Further Info: Son of Stonny Menackis. His father is an unknown Seerdomin who rapes Stonny during the Capustan invasion by the Pannion Domin. Stonny names him after her friend Harllo and puts him into an adoptive family. He is raised in Darujhistan by Bedek and Myrla who act as his uncle and aunt, raising him alongside their own children: Snell, Hinty and Mew. Later, he works as a "mole" in the Eldra mines, where he meets Bainisk.
Harllo's Age:
Harllo is conceived in Memories of Ice during the Siege of Capustan and directly stated to be approximately five years old during the events of Toll the Hounds. This is widely seen as a glaring conflict of time within the Malazan series, as it is often not believed to be plausible for other events between Memories of Ice and Toll the Hounds to have taken five years.
Further Info: Series Inconistancies
References:
"(...) Aunt Two, who wasn't Aunt Two at all, but Mother One. Even if she wouldn't admit it, wouldn't ever say it, and wouldn't have hardly nothing to do with her only child, her son of Rape. Once, Harllo had thought that Rape was his father's name, but now he knew it was a thing people did to other people, as mean as an elbow in the ribs, maybe meaner. And that was why Mother One stayed Aunt Two, and why on those rare occasions she visited, she wouldn't meet Harllo's eyes no matter how he tried, and why she wouldn't say anything about nothing except with a voice that was all anger."
TtH
"Harllo was five, maybe close to six, but already tall - stretched, laughed Gruntle, stretched and scrawny because that's how boys grow."
TtH
"No, for Harllo childhood was over. Aged six."
TtH
Comments (3)
Iskarae said
at 11:28 am on Jul 23, 2010
If I'm not mistaken, he is also the result of Stonny's rape during the Capustan invasion. His father, then, is an unknown soldier. This, of course, is the reason she puts him in an adoptive home, and generally 'rejects' him.
Korlat said
at 1:07 pm on Jul 23, 2010
Yes you are right, I'm going to add this in the bio. I can't remember if Harllo's birth is evoked somewhere, or is it just the rape, and then we find the 5-year-old Harllo in TtH?
D'rek said
at 3:56 pm on Jul 23, 2010
The former - no mention of the pregnancy is made in MoI.
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