Ben Adaephon Delat
| Name: |
Ben Adaephon Delat |
| Pseudonyms: |
Quick Ben, Kribalah Rule/Rule the Rude (tBH, UK paperback, p.124-125) |
| Age: |
unknown |
| Race: |
human, Seven Cities |
| Appearance: |
'tall, thin black-skinned man' (GotM, UK Trade, p.42) |
| Warrens: |
12(+?)Kurald Galain, Denul, Hood's Path, Meanas, Serc, D'riss, Aral Gamelon, Tennes, Rashan, ?? |
| Further info: |
Bridgeburner, A mage with at least 7 souls within him. |
Quick Ben, 9th Squad, a
Seven Cities Mage - GotM, Dramatis Personae
Description
"...turning to the tall, thin black-skinned man who came up beside him...Though he spoke Malazan, his harsh accent was
Seven Cities..."
"He seemed to shiver, but his lean face was expressionless as..." - (GotM, UK mmpb p.55)
"...almost feminine hands...fine, ascetic features...thin, spidery hands..." - (GotM, UK mmpb p.79, UK Trade p.59)
History
"You are supposed to be dead.' Pearl said. 'Your name is so marked on the scrolls of those High Mages who fell to the
Empire in
Seven Cities." -
(GotM, US HC, p.298)
"I first met him in
Seven Cities . . . the Holy Desert
Raraku, to be more precise...Quick Ben. Adaephon Delat, a middling wizard in the employ of one of the Seven Holy Protectors during an abortive rebellion that originated in
Aren. Delat and eleven other mages made up the Protector’s cadre." -
Whiskeyjack - (MoI, UK TPB, p.258)- Kebharla, she was more a scholar than a mage - ( MoI, p.356)
- Set'alahd Crool, a Jhag half blood who'd once driven Dassem Ultor back half a dozen steps in furious counter attack, his sword shining with the blessing of some unknown ascendant.
- Birith'erah, mage of the Serc warren who could pull storms down from the sky
2 further bodies (unnamed)
"The Malazan Empire had invaded. Foreign ships had blockaded Ehrlitan's harbour. The cult of Rashan was spared the purges of the new harsh masters of Seven Cities...The cult's destruction was sudden, unexpected and had come from within...A High Priest from another city was visiting...Delat...had come to destroy Rashan. Delat, who, it proved, was both a High Priest and a Bridgeburner, and whatever the Emperor's reason for annihilating the cult, his was the hand that delivered the death-blow." - (HoC, UK, mmpb, pg. 388-389.)
Power and Warrens
"I have no hold over him these days, alas. Why? He is too powerful. Too mysterious. Too conniving. Too Hood-damned smart. Indeed, even
Shadowthrone has turned his attentions elsewhere."
- Cotillion on Quick Ben - (HoC, UK TPB, p.283)
"The power tricked from him with absolute control. He was her superior in the lore. He had opened a warren she didn't even recognize." -
Tattersail - (GotM, UK mmpb, p.80)
"Quick Ben accessed his warrens - he could only manage seven at any one time though he possessed more." - (MoI, UK mmpb, p.87)
"'The tall one,' she said. 'He's a mage, isn't he?'
Whiskeyjack grunted, then said,' His name's Quick Ben.'
'Not the one he was born with.'
'No.'
She rolled her shoulders against the weight of her cloak, momentarily easing the dull pain in her lower back. 'I should know him, Sergeant. That kind of power gets noticed. He's no novice.'
'No,' Whiskeyjack replied. 'He isn't.' - Tattersail talks to Whiskeyjack - (GotM, UK mmpb p.57)
"'That sounds like Denul... But not quite,' she added slowly. 'He's twisted it somehow'.
Quick Ben had resumed his chaining words, this time over the object, which he now set beside Hairlock. She watched as enwreathing power enveloped the wrapped object, watching in growing apprehension as the mage traced his long fingers alongs the hide's seams. The energy trickled from him with absolute control. He was her superior in the lore. He had opened a Warren she didn't even recognise." - Tattersail observes the soul-shifting of Hairlock, performed by Quick Ben - (GotM, UK mmpb p.80)
The wizard voiced a long, elaborate string of curses in his Malazan tongue, then said, “I could take to the air, drawing on Serc -- although how long I could manage that is anyone’s guess.” (RG)
General References
"...as he watched his two Seven Cities soldiers..." - referring to Quick Ben and Kalam Mekhar - (GotM, UK mmpb 56)
"The black man's expression was glacial, but she saw a flicker around his eyes. Looked like fear. - fear of Sorry. See Quick Ben's repulsing of Sorry. - (GotM, UK mmpb p.82)
"Quick Ben's not the expansive type, the bastard." - Kalam Mekhar - (DG, UK mmpb, p.471)
"Quick Ben's knowledge of the Holy Desert is, uh, vast." -
Fiddler - (DG, UK mmpb, p.348)
The Collected Works of
Azath
I am the House
imprisoning in my birth
demonic hearts,
so locked in each chamber
some trembling enraged
antiquity.
And these roots of stone
spread the deepest cracks
in parched ground
holding for ever the dream
of fruit, ah, pilgrims
come to my door
and starve . . .
Azath (ii.iii)
Adaephon (b.?)
(GotM, UK Trade, p.499)
See also Soletaken
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