The Bonehunters are marching to Kolanse & to an unknown fate. Tormented & exhausted they are an army on the brink of mutiny. But Adjunct Tavore will not relent. If she can hold her forces together if the fragile alliances she has forged can survive & if it is within her power one final act remains. For Tavore Paran means to challenge the gods. Ranged against Tavore & her allies are formidable foes. The Fokrul Assail are drawing upon a terrible power; their desire is to cleanse the world
- to eradicate every civilization to annihilate every human
- in order to begin anew. The Elder Gods too are seeking to return. & to do so they will shatter the chains that bind a force of utter devastation & release her from her eternal prison. It seems that once more there will be dragons in the world. & in Kurald Galain where the once-lost city of Kharkanas has been found thousands have gathered upon the First Shore. Commanded by Yedan Derryg they await the coming of the Tiste Liosan. Are they truly ready to die in the name of an empty city & a queen with no subjects? In every world there comes a time when choice is no longer an option
- a moment when the soul is laid bare & there is nowhere left to turn. & when this last hard truth is faced when compassion is a virtue on its knees what is there left to do? Now that time is come
- now is the moment to proclaim your defiance & make a st&... And so begins the final cataclysmic chapter in Steven Erikson's extraordinary genre-defining ' Malazan Book of the Fallen'.