Thelomen Toblakai
Race: Thelomen Toblakai
Also known as: Thelomen, Toblakai
Warren:
Appearance:
Famous Members: Bellurdan, Karsa Orlong
Members we have met: Bellurdan, Karsa Orlong, Bairoth Gild, Delum Thord
Further info: Thelomen Toblakai are a race of giants. They are incredibly effective warriors.
Thelomen Toblakai are one of the four founding races of Wu. They are genetically seperate from all Imass-based races (i.e. humans), and though Erikson does not go into detail about the facial features of such characters as Bellurdan, Karsa Orlong, or any of Orlong's companions, they are doubtless somewhat alien to human readers. The Thelomen Toblakai have decendants at the time of the Malazan Book of the Fallen; these are the Teblor, Barghast , and Trell .
'Toblakai. A name of past glories, of a race of warriors who had stood alongside mortal
Imass, alongside cold-meined
Jaghut and demonic
Forkrul Assail.'
HoC, UK MMPB, p.354
"As a Thelomen, I possess
Jaghut blood, though of course
Gothos would deny it."
- Bellurdan
GotM, US HC, p.237
'Your(Karsa's) kind walked this earth when the
T'lan Imass were still flesh. From your blood came the
Barghast and the
Trell. You are Thelomen Toblakai.'
- Leoman
HoC, UK MMPB, p.262-3
"The armoured figure was enormous, three times a man's height at least"
HoC, UK mmpb, pg 538
Thelomen Tartheno Toblakai . . .
find the names of a people
so reluctant to fade
into oblivion . . .
Their legend rots
my cynical cast and blights
my eyes with bright glory . . .
‘Cross not the loyal cage
embracing their unassailable heart . . .
. . . Cross not these stolid menhirs,
ever loyal to the earth.’
Thelomen Tartheno Toblakai . . .
Still standing, these towering pillars
mar the gelid scape
of my mind . . .
Gothos’ Folly (II.iv)
Gothos (b.?)
GotM, UK Trade, p.69
Toblakai Sayings
Death shall be my bridge.
DG, UK MMPB, p.265
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