Characters in Forge of Darkness

Draconus

Creator of Dragnipur and Consort of Mother Dark, whose choices during the Tiste civil war echo across ten thousand years of Malazan history.

Also in Fall of Light

Anomander

Young Tiste Andii lord — before he became Rake, before the millennia of exile — navigating a war that his own father has helped cause.

Also in Fall of Light

Andarist

Anomander's younger brother, whose grief over a personal loss becomes the novel's most intimate tragedy.

Also in Fall of Light

Hunn Raal

Commander of the Legion and architect of the political violence driving the civil war, whose ambition exceeds his wisdom.

Also in Fall of Light

Silchas Ruin

The Soletaken white-skinned brother of Anomander, whose cold pragmatism will define his surviving role across the ages.

Endest Silann

A young Tiste priest whose faith in Mother Dark is the novel's most sustained examination of belief.

Also in Toll the Hounds

Grizzin Farl

An Elder God in the guise of a mortal, watching events with the weary detachment of someone who has seen civilizations fall before.