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Glossary

Letherii Titles

Acquitor:
a sanctioned position as guide/factor when dealing with non-Letherii peoples

Atri-Preda:
military commander who governs a city or town

Ceda:
title of King's own mage

Finadd:
equivalent of captain in the military

Preda:
equivalent of commander or general in the military

Sentinel:
the King's Voice in establishing first contact with non-Letherii peoples

The King's Leave:
a title relieving the holder of all criminal convictions

Lether Place Names

Burl Square:
a square in Letheras

Cedance:
the dominant set of Tiles (see the Holds)

Cul Street:
a street in Letheras

Down Markets:
a district in Letheras

Errant's Heel:
an alley in Letheras

Eternal Domicile:
the new palace under construction in Letheras

Huldo's:
a restaurant in Letheras

Katter Bight:
a stretch of water outside Old Katter

Kraig's Landing:
upriver from the city of Trate

Lether:
the kingdom and its protectorates

Letheras:
the capital city of Lether

Merchants' Tolls:
equivalent of a stock market in Lether

Purser's District:
a district in Letheras

Quillas Canal:
one of the main canals in Letheras

Rat Catchers' Guild:
a mysterious guild active throughout Lether

Red Lane:
a lane in Letheras

Rild's:
a restaurant in Letheras

Scale House:
headquarters of the Rat Catchers' Guild, Letheras

Sherp's Last Lane:
a lane in Letheras

Soulan Bridge:
a bridge in Letheras

Stinking House:
abode of Selush the Dresser of the Dead

Tarancede Tower:
a watchtower overlooking Trate Harbour

Temple School:
an educational institution in Letheras

The Temple:
a high-end brothel in Letheras

Urum's Lenders:
an establishment in Letheras

Windlow's Meatgrinders:
an abattoir in Letheras

Letherii Cities, Villages and Forts

Awl

Brans Keep

Bridle

Cargo

Desden

Dissent

Dresh

Fent Reach

First Maiden Fort

First Reach

Five Points

Fort Shake

Gedry

Harness

High Fort

Letheras

The Manse

Miner Sluice

Old Gedure

Old Katter

Second Maiden Fort

Thetil

Third Maiden Fort

Trails

Trate

Truce

Letherii Protectorates

Bluerose

Karn

Korshenn

Pilott

Pockface Islands

Neighbouring Kingdoms

Kolanse

Letherii Military

Artisan Battalion

Bluerose Battalion

Cold Clay Battalion

Crimson Rampant Brigade

Fent Garrison

Grass Jackets Brigade

Harridict Brigade

Katter Legion

Maiden Garrison

Merchants' Battalion

Shake Legion

Trate Legion

Wave Wake Brigade

Whitefinder Battalion

Letherii Phrases

Blue Style Steel:
an earlier method of ironmongery

Docks:
commonest denomination of Lether money

Dresh Ballista:
a multi-quarrel war weapon

Letheran Steel:
a secret method of ironmongery

Letherii:
that of Lether, also the name of the language and of the people

Levels:
the coin of the wealthy of Lether

Lupe Fish:
a large carnivorous fish resident in Lether River and the canals of Letheras

Ootooloo:
a primitive but singular sea-creature from Bluerose

Peaks:
the coin of the filthy rich in Lether

(The) Seventh Closure:
prophesied renaissance

(The) Shrouded Sisters of the Empty Throne:
Educators

Stripling:
lowest denomination of Lether money

Truce Fever:
a common, curable fever

Tusked Milk:
an alcoholic beverage

Tiste Edur Places and Names

Arapay:
subjugated and easternmost tribe of Tiste Edur

Beneda:
subjugated tribe of Tiste Edur

Calach Breeding Beds:
coastline where Tusked Seals breed

Den-Ratha:
subjugated, northernmost tribe of Tiste Edur

Hasana Inlet:
an inlet claimed by the Tiste Edur

Hiroth:
dominant tribe of the Tiste Edur

Kaschan Inlet:
an inlet claimed by the Tiste Edur

Knarri:
a whaling and fishing craft

K'orthan:
raider longboats

K'risnan:
the Warlock King's cadre of sorcerors

Merude:
subjugated tribe of Tiste Edur

Morok Tree:
a blue-leafed tree used in funeral practices

Sollanta:
subjugated tribe of Tiste Edur

Stonebowl:
a natural depression at the base of a gorge north of the main Hiroth village

Other Names, Titles and Terms

(The) Eres'al:
the spirit goddess of the Nerek

Faraed:
an assimilated people in Lether

Fent:
an assimilated people in Lether

Jheck:
a northern tribe

Ken'ryllah:
a type of demon

Kenyll'rah:
a type of demon

Khalibaral:
a type of demon

Meckros:
a civilization of mobile, floating cities

N'purel:
the Whiskered Fish of the Kenyll'rah homeworld

Nachts:
Jaghut-bred versions of bhoka'rala

Nerek:
an assimilated people in Lether

Onyx Wizards:
sorcerors of Bluerose (defeated in conquest)

Tarthenal:
an assimilated people in Lether

The Seregahl:
the five gods of the Tarthenal

Mythos (Letherii, Edur and other)

(The) Black Winged Lord:
divinity worshipped in Bluerose

Kilmandaros:
an Elder Goddess

Mael:
an Elder God

Menandore
(Betrayer, Dawn)

Scabandari Bloodeye
(Father Shadow, Emurlahnis)

Sheltatha Lore
(Daughter Dusk)

Silchas Ruin
(The Betrayer)

Sukul Ankhadu
(The Fickle, Dapple)

The Holds

T
HE
T
ILES

The Beast Hold

Bone Perch

Elder

Crone

Seer

Shaman

Hunter

Tracker

The Azath Hold

Heartstone

Keeper

Portal

Path

Mason

Tomb

Guest

Barrow

Root

Wall

The Dragon Hold

Queen

Consort

Liege

Knight

Gate

Wyval

The Lady

Blood-Drinker

Path-Shaper

The Ice Hold

Ice Throne

Walker

Huntress

Shaper

Bearer

Child

Seed

The Empty Hold

Empty Throne

Wanderer

Mistress

Watcher

Walker

Saviour

Betrayer

The Fulcra (unaligned)

Shapefinder

The Pack

The Errant

Axe (Eres)

Crow (White Crow)

Fire

Dolmen

Blade

Knuckles

THE
BONEHUNTERS

BOOK SIX OF THE
MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN

STEVEN ERIKSON

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE BONEHUNTERS: BOOK SIX OF THE MALAZAN BOOK OF THE FALLEN

Copyright © 2006 by Steven Erikson

All rights reserved.

Originally published in Great Britain in 2006 by Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers.

A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

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®
is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

ISBN: 978-0-7653-4883-8

eISBN 9781429926973

To Courtney Welch.
Keep the music coming, friend.

For all that is made real

In this age descending

Where heroes leave naught

But the iron ring of their names

From bardic throats

I stand in this silent heart

Yearning the fading beat

Of lives fallen to dust

And the sifting whisper

Proclaims glory's passing

As the songs fail

In dwindling echoes

For all that is made real

The chambers and halls

Yawn empty to my cries –

For someone must

Give answer

Give answer

To all of this

Someone

The Age Descending
Torbora Fethena

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the usual suspects, including my early-draft readers Chris, Mark, Rick, Courtney, and Bill Hunter who has proved invaluable on the mechanics and full listing of variants of the Deck of Dragons – but listen, Bill, no more walking miles through the rain, right? Cam Esslemont for a most diligent read-through – I'm glad at least one of us has got the timeline right. Clare and Bowen, as always. To the staff at Bar Italia for seeing me through another one – three novellas and four novels and twenty-two thousand lattes, that was quite a run, wasn't it? Steve, Perry and Ross Donaldson, for the friendship. Simon Taylor, Patrick Walsh and Howard Morhaim, for the good work done each and every time.

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