The Crippled God
Name: The Crippled God
Pseudonyms: Chained One, the Fallen One
Age:...
Race:...
Appearance:...
Warren:...
Further Info:...
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
The Chained One, an unknown ascendant (also known as the Crippled God)
MoI, Dramatis Personae
The Fall
"The foreign god had been torn apart in his descent to earth. He had come down in pieces, in streaks of flame. His pain was fire, screams and thunder, a voice that had been heard by half the world. Pain, and outrage. And, K'rul reflected, grief. It would be a long time before the foreign god could begin to reclaim the fragments of his life, and so begin to unveil his nature. K'rul feared that day's arrival. From such a shattering could only come madness.
The summoners were dead. Destroyed by what they had called down upon them...They had after all, been desperate. Desperate enough to part the fabric of chaos, to open a way into an alien, remote realm; to then lure a curious god of that realm closer, ever closer to the trap they had prepared. The summoners sought power.
All to destroy one man.
The Elder God had crossed the ruined continent, had looked upon the still-living flesh of the Fallen God, had seen the unearthly maggots that crawled forth from that rotting, endlessly pulsing meat and broken bone. Had seen what those maggots flowered into. Even now, as he reached the battered shoreline of Jacuruku, the ancient sister continent of Korelri, they wheeled above him on their broad, black wings."
MoI, UK mmpb, p.35-6
Chainings
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
The Chained One, The Fallen One
'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
"Broken. Shattered. Chained to this fevered corpse beneath us. I did not ask for such a fate. I was not always a thing of pain. . .'"
MoI, UK mmpb, p.88
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