The Crippled God
Name: Kaminsod - The Crippled God
Pseudonyms: Chained One, the Fallen One - The Crippled God, King of Chains - GotM, Glossary - The Chained One, an unknown ascendant (also known as the Crippled God) - MoI, Dramatis Personae
Further information : He is now listed as an Elder god as the otataral infection in Heboric's stump could not negate the jade warren - and elder magic can withstand otataral magic.
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))
Description
'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 Fall
"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)
Kallor and the Fall of the Crippled God
"They warred against Kallor; it was a worth cause." - Silchas Ruin - (MT Tpb p. 336)
"Some say twelve mages, some say seven. It does not matter, for they are about to become dust."... "Thus, in their effort to enforce a change upon the scheme, they annihilate themselves, and their own civilization."... In answer to perceived desperation, fuelled by seething rage, they called down a god. And died with the effort. Does that mean they failed in their gambit? No, I do not speak of Kallor." - Silchas Ruin - (MT TPB P 337)
"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)
"A god, Brys Beddict. In its own realm, it was locked in a war. For there were rival gods. Temptations..." - Silchas Ruin - (MT TPB p 336)
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 numbering 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)
"That which was chained to the earth has twisted the walls of its prison. Beyond recognition. Its poison has spread out and infected the world and all who dwell upon it. - Silchas Ruin (MT TPB p. 337)
Baruk's Captive from the Realm of the Crippled God
Crone circled the edge, fixing one eye then the other on the strange apparition swirling above the enchanted dais. The power of the High Alchemist's sorcery was as sweet and intoxicating as the pollen of d'bayang poppies, but that which came from the demon was foul, alien – yet, the Great Raven knew, not quite as alien as it should be. Not to her and her kind, that is.
"You are bold," she said to Baruk, who stood facing the dais with hands folded. "And the reach of your power, and will, is most impressive."
"Thank you," replied the High Alchemist, squinting at the demon he had conjured and then trapped. "Our conversations have been … most enlightening. Of course, what we see here is not a true physical manifestation. A soul, I believe, disconnected from its corporeal self."
"With eyes of jade," Crone noted, beak opening in silent laughter. She hesitated, then asked, "What has it told you?" ...
....."Its flesh is very far away indeed. I was granted an image of the flesh – a human, as far as I could tell, which is in itself rather extraordinary. I was able to capture the soul due to its heightened meditative state, one in which the detachment is very nearly absolute. I doubt the original body draws breath ten times a bell. A most spiritual individual, Crone."
The Great Raven returned her attention to the apparition. Studied its jade eyes, its jagged traceries of crackling filaments, pulsing like a slowed heart. "And you know, then," she said.
"Yes. The demon is from the realm of the Fallen One. His birthplace." (TtH)
General References
'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)
'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)
'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)
"Power ripped through the tent. The figure shrieked, jerking backward. The blanket burst into flame, as did the creature's long, tangled hair." - (MoI, UK mmpb, p.88)
History
1159th Year of Burn's Sleep
Year of the White Veins in the Ebony
Three years before the Letherii Seventh Closure
Kaminsod, in his power, brings Withal the Swordmaker and his shipwreck to the shore line.
Withal finds his tent and enter. Kaminsod tells him that he is a fallen god, that is in need of Withal's skills, and has prepared a place for him and three servants. The three Bhoka'ral, which he says are Nachts, of the Jaghut fashioning, and can learn all he needs. They are named Rind, Mape and Pule.
Withal refuses his offer and intends to leave for his own world but the hooded figure stops Withal informing him that he is his slave and refusal will result in him begging for death. But once the task he requires is done, Withal is free to leave. Withal asks what he wants and the figure tells him he wants a sword. But what he has in mind is a "very particular sword..."
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