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| - The prologue describes the battle between the K’Chain Che’malle armies and those of the Tiste Edur and Tiste Andii. The hive cities of the K’Chain Che’malle reduced to rubble and the great sky keeps are falling to earth and shattering, under the attack of the two allied armies. Scabandari Bloodeye a Soletaken Eleint, and ruler of the Tiste Edur is surveying the battle scene and counting the dead. He sembles into his human form and is joined by Silchas Ruin, an albino Soletaken Eleint and a Tiste Andii, who also sembles into human form. Taller than the Edur and with red eyes, his body is slashed with sword cuts. Both of his swords are broken and missing. They talk and it is clear there are far more Edur than Andii left, with the Edur now surrounding the remnants of the Andii on the battlefield. Scabandari is exulting in the extent of their success but Silchas is bitter over the losses his people have suffered. As they talk it is revealed who is responsible for the sundering of Kurald Emurlahn. Silchas notes a Jaghut witnessing the battle and senses a ritual beginning. As he speculates out loud to Scabandari on the nature of that ritual, he is betrayed Scabandari veers back into his Soletaken from and carries Silchas off to imprisonment, speculating as he does so on any other potential opposition to him in this realm. Amongst those mentioned are the three sons of Mother Dark, Anomander Rake, Andarist and Silchas Ruin the third and youngest. The POV changes to that of the Jaghut Gothos, who has watched the slaughter of the K’Chain Che’malle. Weaving his ritual he is approached by an Elder God, Mael, who mentions that he is to have help in subduing Scabandari from another elder god, Kilmandaros. Mael then asks Gothos to preserve the battle site in ice, to which Gothos agrees. 1159th Year of Burns Sleep Year of the White Veins in the Ebony Three years before the Letherii Seventh Closure A huge man has been washed up on an island beach. He’s the only survivor of a floating Meckros city destroyed by ice rising up from the depths. Three Bhoka’ral approach him and gesture for him to follow them, which he does and they lead him towards a tent. At their gestures he enters the tent and finds himself facing a hooded and shrouded figure sitting in front of a brazier. The figure who claims to be a fallen god calls him his name, Withal the Swordmaker, and offers to provide him a forge, with food, water and a place to live, and in addition the help of the three bhoka’ral (who are in fact Nachts) if he will make a sword for him.
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