Malaz City
A city on Malaz Island. It contains several places that were key to the development of the Malazan Empire.
Malaz City Island city and home of the founding Emperor of the
Malazan Empire
GotM, Glossary
"...through the warehouse district, continuing on into the poorest quarters of rag shops, bone renderers, money lenders, and tanneries. If her quarry kept on in this direction he would soon confront an even fouler neighbourhood, the Mouse - the filthiest, lowest and most disease-infested locale in the city.
At the first muddy lane bridged by plank walkways, her mark's trail turned abruptly northward. Kiska was not surprised by the sudden change in direction; she imagined their disgust at the redolent sewage and rotting kitchen refuse awash in stagnant water that percolated form a nearby marsh...through the maze of alleys, especially now, as many of the ways were nothing more than the glutinous paths through the blackened wreckage left by last summer's riots...The trail led up on a gentle grade leading toward the wealthy merchant centre. It crossed market lanes, up cobbled arcades past shop fronts...through the cloth merchant district is continued on, climbing hills northwest into the Lightings, the old estate quarter."
NoK, UK mmpb, p. 95-6
"The Fener Temple is in Dockfront! Is it the poorest? There were slums outside the city, lining the Jakata Road."
DG, UK mmpb, p.159
"'Let me guess: the infamous tavern called Smiley's, once owned by a man who would one day become an Emperor - the sailors tell me the food is quite awful.'"
DG, UK mmpb, p.804
"The greased anchor chain rattled smoothly, slipping down into the black, oily water, and Ragstopper came to a rest in Malaz Harbour, a hundred yards from the docks. A scatter of dull yellow lights marked the lower quarter's front street, where ancient warehouses interspersed by ramshackle taverns, inns and tenement houses faced the piers. To the north was the ridge that was home to the city's merchants and nobles - the larger estates abutting the cliff wall and its switchback stairs that ascended to Mock's Hold."
DG, UK mmpb, p.839
Districts and Quarters
- Lightings Quarter
- Mouse Quarter
- Warehouse district
- Merchant district
- Cloth Merchant district
Harbour
"Of late the harbour served mainly as a military transit point, yet still retained some trade, a portion of which was even legitimate. All in all it was a lean shadow of what it had been. Deserted houses faced sagging warehouses and tottering, wave-eroded piers. Once home port to a piratical navy, then a thalassocracy, then an empire, the city now seemed crowded more by ghosts than people. It had given the empire its name, but had lost all tactical and strategic value, save as a staging point for the empire's borders swept on to distant seas.
For a time, the Korelan invasion changed that, of course, and the residents had re-awakened to renewed promise for the isle. But the campaign had since proven a disaster, an abyss of men and resources best left alone. The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.65
"Spender's outfit ran the waterfront; the
Jakatan pirates who preyed from time to time on coastal shipping."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.67
"'The Emperor had Malaz Bay dredged before the Imperial piers were built - revealed old sea walls and the like.'"
DG, UK mmpb, p.644
Lightings Quarter
"...the old estate quarter. Most of the manor houses stood vacant behind tall gates. Now they served mainly as provincial retreats for the aristocratic families that had transferred their interests north, across the
Strait of Winds, to the Imperial court at
Unta."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.96
"...she kept to the ivy-choked iron fences that lined the district's boulevards."
"She paused in the shadow of an ancient pillar, a plinth for the marble statue of a
Nacht, the fanged winged creature once said to have inhabited the island."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.97
E'Karial family manor
"Smallish compared to some of town's grander estates, but comfortable...It was also long abandoned."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.99
Mouse Quarter
Mouse Quarter An ill-fated district in Malaz City
GotM, Glossary
"If her quarry kept on in this direction he would soon confront an even fouler neighbourhood, the Mouse - the filthiest, lowest and most disease-infested locale in the city."
- Kiska
NoK, UK mmpb, p.95
"They burned the Mouse Quarter a week after you swept through it,
Tattersail.'
Lorn's voice made everyone stiffen with its barely controlled rage. 'Those survivors, the ones you left behind, were resettled in Mock's Hole.'"
GotM, US HC, p.219
Mossy Tors
"...overlooking the stretch of copses and hilly meadow littered by the ruins everyone called Mossy Tors."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.185
"They stood in Mossy Toors, a glade the town had encroached on as it grew inland."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.263
Roads
"...ambled down to Front Way. He squinted between warehouses to the harbour and the bay beyond."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.39
"At the bottom of Cormorant Road..."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.72
"
Kiska jogged down Riverwalk. To one side the
Malaz River flowed dark and gelid within its stone banks."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.139
"Her aunt lived alone behind her shop on Reach Lane, a street so narrow its second-storey balconies butted each other overhead and occulted the moonlight."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.151
"...concentrating instead on watching Bank Street, and stepping carefully through the trash-littered alley."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.167
"Temper jogged Bank Street, heading for Old Stone Bridge close to the swampy mouth of the Malaz River."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.176
"...Cutter's Strait - the main north-south concourse dividing the old town from the new."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.178
"At the broken fountain dedicated to Poliel...He then jogged onto Toc Way."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.210
"Two turnings brought him to a wide length of esplanade hat served as a morning market.
Temper now knew where he'd ended up: close to the concourse that led to Reacher's Way."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.217
"The worn steps ended at a shoulder-width cleft between buildings facing Jakani Square."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.213
"She limped out onto the Way of the Eel."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.430
"She walked the rising slope of Coral Way..."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.435
Landmarks
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