Name: Togg
Pseudonym: The Wolf of Winter, Togctha
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Further Info: One of the rulers of the Beast Throne. A mated pair lost and separated by the calling down of the Crippled God. Now re-united and occupying the Thrones of the Beast Hold.
Said to be older and more ancient than the Elder Gods.
"In the distance, the beast watched the three figures part ways. Riven with pain, white fur stained and dripping blood, the gouged pit of its lost eye glittering wet, it held its hulking mass on trembling legs.
(...)
The beast elected to follow none of them. They were young entities as far as he and his mate were concerned, and the warren she might have fled to was, in comparison to those of Elder Gods, ancient."
MoI, UK mmpb, p.41-2
‘Togg, Lord of Winter, a god of war long forgotten, recalled among the Barghast as the wolf-spirit, Togctha.'
MoI, UK Trade, p.591
The Wolves of Winter
Togg - 'White fur stained and dripping blood, the gouged pit of its lost eye glittering wet.'
MoI, UK mmpb. p 41
'Togg's three masks of war...Terror, rage and pain.'
DG, UK MMPB, p.559
'Two ancient gods, once mere spirits, the first to run with mortals – those T’lan Imass of flesh and blood of so long ago – the most ancient of companions. And their kin, who followed in kind, and run still with the T’lan Imass. ‘Two wolf-gods, yes? Does anyone here not recall the bedtime story of their separation, their eternal search for one another? Of course, all of you do. Such a sorrowful story, the kind impressionable children never forget. But what drove them apart? How goes the tale? Then one day horror visited the land. Horror from the dark sky. Descending to shatter the world. And so the lovers were thrown apart, never again to embrace. And it goes on blah blah and so forth and forthwhich. ‘Gentlemen, the horror was of course the Fallen One’s fateful descent. And whatever healing was demanded of the surviving powers proved a difficult, burdensome task. The Elder Gods did what they could, but understand, they were themselves younger than the two wolf-gods...'
- Kruppe
MoI, UK Trade, p.643-4
Togg and Fanderay are ascended beasts. Their souls are unknowable to such as you and me. Who can predict what lies in the hearts of such creatures?’
- Norul, Shield Anvil of the Grey Swords
MoI, UK Trade, p.648
It is a most ancient tale. Two gods from before the time
of men and women. Longing and love and loss, the beasts
doomed to wander through the centuries.
A tale of mores, told with the purpose of no resolution.
Its meaning, gentle readers, lies not in a soul-warming
conclusion, but in all that is unattainable in this world.
Who then could have imagined such closure?
Winter’s Love
MoI, UK Trade, p.616
Some tides move unseen. Priests and priestesses of the
twin cults of Togg and Fanderay had for so long presided
over but a handful of adherents in their respective temples,
and those temples were few and far between. A shortlived
expansion of the cults swept through the Malazan armies
early in Laseen’s reign, but then seemed to wither of its
own accord. In retrospect, that flurry might be
interpreted as being only marginally premature,
anticipating by less than a decade the reawakening
that would bring the ancient cults to the fore. The first
evidence of that reawakening occurred on the very edges
of the Empire’s borders [strictly speaking, not even close, tr.],
in the recently liberated city of Capustan, where the tide
revealed its power for all to see . . .
Cults of Resurrection
Korum T’bal (translated by Illys of Darujhistan)
MoI, UK Trade, p.766
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