Keruli, a trader - (MoI, Dramatis Personae)

"'K'rul, Opener of the Paths.'" - (MoI, UK mmpb, p.38)

"In K'rul's wake, men and women killed men, killed women, killed children. Dark slaughter was the river the Elder God rode." - (MoI, UK mmpb, p.35)

He bled, and from the wounds he opened upon himself, in the blood itself, he gave birth to mysterious power.  Sorcery. Magic in many currents and flavours.  They are young still, vague in aspect, only barely sensed.  Those who do sense them might choose to flee, or venture closer.  In exploration, these currents find definition _ (FoD Tpb, p. 515)

His Relationship With the Warrens

"The round man glanced up to find a shrouded figure seated on the other flat stone, reaching thin pale hands out to the flames. ...'Kruppe had long since concluded that you wished to tell him something of such vast import that none but Kruppe is worthy to hear.'

A faint glitter from the darkness within the hood. 'I am not in this war.'

...'K'rul states that he is not in the war. Yet, Kruppe suspects, he is nevertheless its prize.'

'Only you understand this, my friend,' the Elder God said..." - (TtH, US TPB, p.24) 

Kallor's Curse

[Kallor]: "K'rul, you shall fade from this world, you shall be forgotten." - (MoI, UK mmpb, p.40)

[K'rul]: "Every god falls at mortal's hands. Such is the only end to immortality." - (GotM, US HC, p.167)

"‘I was once a god,’ the figure replied. ‘Worshipped as K’rul, and my aspect was the Obelisk.    I am the Maker of Paths – do you find significance in that ancient title?’

Raest took a step back, raising his desiccated hands.  ‘Impossible,’ he breathed. ‘You passed into the Realms of Chaos – returned to the place of your birth – you are among us no more—’" (GotM, UK TPB, p.466)

K'rul's Bargain with the Eleint

"The female dragon spoke,  'I am Eloth, Mistress of Illusions -- Meanas to you -- and Mockra and Thyr.  A Shaper of the Blood.  All that K’rul asked of me, I have done.  And now you presume to question my loyalty?'

'Ah,'  Cotillion said, nodding, 'then I take it you are aware of the impending war.  Are you also aware of the rumours of K’rul’s return?'

'His blood is growing sickly,'  said the third dragon.  'I am Ampelas, who shaped the Blood in the paths of Emurlahn.  The sorcery wielded by the Tiste Edur was born of my will -- do you now understand, Usurper?'

'That dragons are prone to grandiose claims and sententiousness?  Yes, I do indeed understand, Ampelas.  And I should now presume that for each of the warrens, elder and new, there is a corresponding dragon?  You are the flavors of K’rul’s blood?'"   - (BH, UK TPB, p.51)

"...Anomander Rake had warred against the the pureblood dragons. When such creatures broke loose from their long-standing servitude to K'rul; when they had sought to grasp power for themselves." - (TtH, US TPB, p. 63)

“Because the Holds are Elder, you fool.  It was K’rul’s bartering with the Eleint that made this whole mess – that brought the warrens into the realms, that forced order upon the chaos of the Old Magic.  K’rul’s conniving that saw one dragon selected among the Grand Clan, chosen to become the Negator, the Otataral; while all the others would chain themselves to aspects of magic.  They brought law to sorcery, and now I will shatter that law.  Forever more!”

“K’rul sought peace –“ - Errastas to Sechul Lath - (TCG)

All that K’rul created, you understand, was born of the Elder

God’s love of possibility.  Myriad paths of sorcery spun out

a multitude of strands, each wild as hairs in the wind, hackled

to the wandering beast.  And K’rul was that beast, yet he

himself was a parody of life, for blood was his nectar, the

spilled gift, red tears of pain, and all that he was, was defined

by that singular thirst.

For all that, thirst is something we all share, yes?

Brutho and Nullit speak on Nullit’s Last Night

Brutho Parlet - (?, ?, ?)

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