Yathengar 'ul Amal was a Seven Cities priest, the ex-‘Faladan’ of Ehrlitan. He was described as tall and bearded, his skin as dark as the wood of his staff. He had a great hooked nose and black glittering eyes. During the Malazan invasion he had been captured and made prisoner at The Pit, one of the Otataral mines on Otataral Island. There, he served as the inmates' unofficial mayor.