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Coltaine

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Coltaine

 

Name: Coltaine

Pseudonyms: Blackwing

Age: 40+

Race: human Wickan

Appearance: see below

Warren: none

Further info: died at Aren

 

"Coltaine reborn, will he have a role in future books? Not in this series, I don't think. I may change my mind, but don't put money on it."

- Steven Erikson

Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003)

 


 

Coltaine, Fist, 7th Army

DG, Dramatis Personae

 

"They seemed to have found a leader, a tall, fierce-looking warrior with fetishes in his long braids, who now bellowed encouragement, waving his own weapon over his head."

DG, UK mmpb, p.52

 

"...the warleader of the Crow Clan showed the weathering of forty years on the north Wickan Plains of Quon Tali. His lean, expressionless face was lined, deep brackets around the thin, wide mouth, and squint tracks at the corners of his dark, deep-set eyes. Oiled braids hung down past his shoulders, knotted with crow-feather fetishes. He was tall, wearing a battered vest of chain over a hide shirt, a crow-feather cloak hanging from his broad shoulders down to the backs of his knees. He wore a rider's leggings, laced with gut up the outer sides to his hips. A single horn-handled long-knife jutted out from under his left arm."

DG, UK MMPB, p.73

 

"Coltaine looked unchanged...as straight as a spear, his lean face wind-burned to the colour and consistency of leather, his black feather cape bellying in his wake as he strode into the centre of the large room."

DG, UK mmpb, p.392

 

Death

 

"Duiker could have sworn that Coltaine looked up then, lifted his gaze to greet the gift, as the iron head impacted his forehead, shattered the bone, sank deep into his brain and killed him instantly. His head snapped back between the spars of wood, then the arrow was through.

...

The crow's shook the air with their eerie cries and plunged down towards the sagging figure on the cross, sweeping over the warriors  crowding the slopes.

...

The cloud descended on Coltaine, swallowing him entire and covering the cross itself...

And when the rose, exploding skyward, the warleader of the Crow Clan was gone."

DG, UK mmpb, p.858

 

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