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Jaghut

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Jaghut

Race: Jaghut

Also known as: Shurl, Jhag

Warren: Omtose Phellack

Appearance:

Famous Members: Gothos, Raest, Gethol

Members we have met: Huntress, Aramala, Jhenna, Cynnigig, Phyrllis

Further info: One of the Elder races.

Steven Erikson: Jaghut as a word has no earthly influence by way of origin. I just liked the way it looks on the page. I pronounce it Jag-goot but accenting the first syllable and falling off on the last syllable. (Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003))

Jaghut (non-human): extinct mythical people (one of the Four Founding Races)

GotM, Glossary

"There was a timeless saying for deceit and betrayal: dealing with a Jaghut."

- Temper

NoK, UK mmpb, p.413

"A many-jointed hand...Out of the darkness comes the cold hand of a Jaghut."

DG, UK mmpb, p.631

"The mother smiled, lips peeling back to reveal her tusks."

MoI, UK mmpb, p.30

Jaghut Magic

"‘Ice...The Jaghut answer to everything.’"

- Mael

MT, UK Trade, p.6

"'The Warrens of the Imass are similar to those of the Jaghut and the Forkrul Assail – Elder-, blood- and earthbound –'"

GotM, UK Trade, p.204

"'Jaghut. To stem the tides of invading humans, they raised ice. Sometimes swiftly, sometimes slowly, as their strategy dictated. In places it swallowed entire continents, obliterating all that once stood upon them. Forkrul Assail civilizations, the vast mechanisms and edifices of the K'Chain Che'Malle, and of course the squalid huts of those who would one day inherit the world."

- Sormo E'nath

DG, UK MMPB, p.428

Jaghut Society

'...the Jaghut feared community, pronouncing society to be the birthplace of tyranny – of the flesh and the spirit – and citing their own bloody history as proof...'

GotM, UK Trade, p.435

"Jaghut? They are scattered and few"

- Scabandari Bloodeye (discussing who on the Malaz world has the power to oppose the Tiste Edur)

MT, UK HC, pg 3

"The Jaghut are odd people.'

'Tool, they weren't very warlike, were they? I mean, before your kind sought to destroy them.

The Imass was slow to reply. 'Even then,' he said at last. 'The key lay in making them angry, for then they destroyed indiscriminately, including their own."

GotM, US HC, p.388

"'Jaghut...They lived apart, you know. No villages, no cities, just single, remote dwellings. Like this one (a ruined tower)...They feared each other almost as much as they feared the T'lan Imass...'"

- List

DG, UK MMPB, p.768-9

"'Jaghut women had deceptive strength and admirable ferocity, especially when cornered.'"

HoC, UK MMPB, p.323

"'No bargains, Jaghut? You always seek bargains to spare the lives of your children. Have you broken the kin-threads with these two, then? They seem young for that.'"

MoI, UK mmpb, p.27

Jaghut Tyrants

"One whose blood was poisoned by ambition to rule over others. This Jaghut Tyrant enslaved the land around it - all living things - for close to three thousand years. The Imass of the time sought to destroy it, and failed. It was left to other Jaghut to attend to the sundering and imprisoning of the Tyrant - for such a creature was as abominable to them as it was to Imass."

- Bellurdan

GotM, US HC, p.237

"A Jaghut Tyrant, imprisoned by the Jaghut themselves."

GotM, US HC, p.277

Jaghut-T'lan Imass Wars

"The remaining two peoples warred endlessly. Eventually one fell, for they were a race of individuals, battling as much among themselves as against their racial enemies. They were called the Jaghut, though the term has degenerated these days to Jhag, or Shurl. While losers in the war, they did not disappear entirely - it's said some Jaghut survive to this day, though, thankfully, not on Genabackis."

GotM, US HC, p.263

Duiker (referring to a Jaghut tower): 'How old?'

List: 'Not sure. A hundred, two, maybe even three.'

Duiker: 'Not years.'

List: 'No. Millenia'

DG, UK MMPB, p.769

'Each siege lasted centuries, the losses among the T'lan Imass staggering. Jaghut were anything but wanderers. When they chose a place...A strange bond, unique among the Jaghut. When the mother was in peril, the children returned, joined the battle. Then the father. Things. . . escalated. . .'

'She must have been. . . special.'

...

'Is she your guide?'

'No. Her mate.'

- List and Duiker on the ancient battleground crossed by The Chain of Dogs

DG, UK MMPB, p.769

"'Did the Jaghut seek to reason with them, Corporal?'

'Many times, among those not thoroughly corrupted by power - the Tyrants - but you see, there was always an arrogance in the Jaghut, and it was a kind that could claw its way up your back when face to face. Each Jaghut's interest was with him or herself. Almost exclusively. They viewed the T'lan Imass no differently from the way they viewed ants underfoot, herds on the grasslands, or indeed the grass itself. Ubiquitous, a feature of the landscape. A powerful, emergent people, such as the T'lan Imass could not be stung -'

'To the point of swearing an deathless vow?'

'I don't believe that, at first, the T'lan Imass realized how difficult the task of eradication would be. Jaghut were very different in another way - they did not flaunt their power. And many of their efforts in self-defence were. . .passive. Barriers of ice - glaciers - they swallowed the lands around them, even the seas, swallowed whole continents, making them impassable, unable to support the food the mortal Imass required.'

'So they created a ritual that would make them immortal--'

'Free to blow like the dust - and in the age of ice, there was plenty of dust.'"

DG, UK mmpb, p.785

Jaghut tombs (made by T'lan Imass)

"'It looked like nothing more than a cairn marker, a huge, elongated slab of stone tilted upward at the southernmost end'"

DG, UK MMPB, p.783

"There lies a standing stone in the Gadrobi Hills - I know its location precisely. It is almost invisible, only its weathered top breaks the ground, perhaps a hand's span in height. The remaining twenty feet are beneath the earth...For while the stone marks the beginning point, it is not the entrance to the barrow."

GotM, US HC, p.277