Steven Erikson: there was more than one chaining of the crippled god. The account that Kruppe reads has merged all of them into one (hence his comment about finding his grandmother's name in the list -- had he read further, he just might have).(Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003))

The Crippled God, King of Chains

GotM, Glossary

Who among the pantheon would the Fallen One despise and fear the most? Consider the last chaining, in which Hood, Fener, the Queen of Dreams, Osserc and Oponn all participated, in addition to Anomander Rake, Caladan Brood and a host of other ascendants. It is not so surprising, then, that the Crippled God could not have anticipated that his deadliest enemy was not found among those mentioned . . .

The Chainings

Istan Hela

HoC, UK Trade, p.643

"Kneading his brow, Kruppe sat reading in Mammot's study.

...and in the Calling Down to earth the God was Crippled, and so

Chained in its place. In the Calling Down many lands were sundered by

the God's Fists, and things were born and things were released. Chained

and Crippled was this God.

(...)

and it bred caution in the unveiling of its powers. The Crippled God bred

caution but not well enough, for the powers of the earth came to it in the

end. Chained was the Crippled God, and so Chained was it destroyed. And

upon this barren plain that imprisoned the Crippled God many gathered to

the deed. Hood, gray wanderer of Death, was among the gathering, as was

Dessembrae, then Hood's Warrior - though it was here and in this time

that Dessembrae shattereed the bonds Hood held upon him. Also among

the gathering were

(...)

and among those that came from the vaulted heaves of silver, the Tiste

Andii, dwellers of Darkness in the Place before Light, Black Dragons num-

bering five, and in their league sailed red-winged Silanah, said to dwell

among the Tiste Andii in their Fang of Darkness descending from the

vaulted heavens of silver...

GotM, US HC, p.274

even chained, the Crippled God will not rest. He exists in endless, tormenting pain, shattered, broken within and without, yet he has turned that into a strength. The fuel for his rage, his hunger for vengeance—

- K'rul

MoI, UK Trade, p.235-6

'A blanket wrapped figure sat huddled against the tent's far wall, less than three paces away, leaning over a brazier from which smoke rose in sinuous coils. Its breathing was loud, laboured. A hand that appeared to have had every on of its fingers broken lifted into view and gestured.'

MoI uk mmpb p.87

'The Crippled God,' Rake murmured, going perfectly still. 'He has spent an eternity nurturing his spite - he will be without mercy, Brood.'

MoI, MMPB, p.239

Unsuspecting, curious, the strange god in that strange place edged closer, then the trap was sprung. Down he came, torn to pieces yet remaining alive. Brought down, shattering a continent, obliterating warrens. Himself broken, damaged, crippled...

MoI, MMPB, p.519

'The Crippled God had fashioned a small tent around his place of chaining...Broken, shattered, oozing with wounds that never healed...The tent shimmered, then dissolved, revealing a robed, hooded, shapeless figure sitting on damp clay. A brazier lifted veils of smoke between them, and a mangled hand reached out to fan the sweet tendrils into the hood-shadowed face...

MoI, UK Trade, p.253