Anomander Rake

 

Name: Anomander Rake,

Pseudonyms: Son of Darkness, Knight of High House Dark, Mane of Chaos, Blacksword (Seguleh)

Age: 300 000+ years

Race: Tiste Andii (Ascended)

Appearance: Black skin, silver hair. Seven feet tall. Sharp featured.

Warren: Kurald Galain, Starvald Demelain

Further info: Lord of Moon's Spawn, Bearer of Dragnipur, Archmage of the Tiste Andii

 

Quotes

 

Gardens of the Moon

 

 

"Pale's wizards had found a powerful ally. Tattersail recalled that the Empire had locked horns with the Moon's mysterious lord once before, in the days of the Emperor. Things had threatened to get ugly, but the Moon's Spawn withdrew from the game. No one still living knew why - just one of the thousand secrets the Emperor took with him to his watery grave."

 

 

- thoughts of Tattersail (GotM, UK mmpb p.61)

 

 

"But, clearly, Caladan Brood and the Tiste Andii weren't the only inhabitants of Moon's Spawn. An unseen lord remained in control of the fortress, bringing it here and sealing a pact with Pale's formidable wizards."

 

- thoughts of Tattersail (GotM, UK mmpb p.62)

 

 

"Tattersail cleared her throat. 'What do we know about the Lord of Moon's Spawn?'

 

'Scant little, I'm afraid,' Tayschrenn said, his eyes veiled. 'A Tiste Andii, for certain. An archmage.'

 

Hairlock leaned forward and deliberately spat at the floor in front of Tayschrenn. 'Tiste Andii, High Mage? I think we can be a little more specific than that, don't you?'

 

...

 

'An archmage,' Tayschrenn repeated. 'Perhaps the Archmage of the Tiste Andii...

 

...Hairlock bared his teeth. 'The Tiste Andii are Mother Dark's first children. You've felt the tremors through the Warrens of Sorcery, Tayschrenn. So have I. Ask Dujek about the reports coming down from the North Campaign. Elder magic - Kurald Galain. The Lord of Moon's Spawn is the Master Archmage - you know his name as well as I do.'"

 

- this is the only occasion where Rake is given the title of "archmage." The term appears to be a GotMism. (GotM, UK mmpb p.67)

 

 

"'Anomandaris.'

 

Hairlock's eyes snapped open, found Tayschrenn with bright pleasure. 'Ahh,' he said, into the silence following Calot's single pronouncement. 'Of course. Three more High Mages? Only three?'

 

Tattersail stared at Dujek's pale, still face. 'The poem,' she said quietly, 'I remember now.

 

'Caladan Brood, the menhired one,

winter-bearing, barrowed and sorrowless...'

 

Calot picked up the next lines.

 

'...in a tomb bereaved of words,

and in his hands that have crushed anvils-'

 

Tattersail continued,

 

'the hammer of his song -

he lives asleep, so give silent warning

to all - wake him not.

Wake him not.'

 

Everyone in the compartment was staring at Tattersail now as her last words fell away. 'He's awake, it seems,' she said, her mouth dry. '"Anomandaris", the epic poem by Fisher Keltath.'

 

'The poems not about Caladan Brood,' Dujek said, frowning.

 

'No,' she agreed. 'It's mostly about his companion.'

 

Hairlock climbed slowly to his feet. He stepped close to Tayschrenn. ' Anomander Rake, Lord of the Tiste Andii, who are the souls of the Starless Night. Rake, the Mane of Chaos. That's who the Moon's Lord is, and you're pitting four High Mages and a single cadre against him.'

 

Tayschrenn's smooth face held the faintest sheen of sweat now. 'The Tiste Andii,' he said in an even voice, 'are not like us. To you they may seem unpredictable, but they aren't. Just different. They have no cause of their own. They simply move from one human drama to the next. Do you actually think Anomander Rake will stay and fight?'

 

'Has Caladan Brood backed away?' Hairlock snapped.

 

'He is not Tiste Andii, Hairlock. He's human - some say with Barghast blood, but none the less he shares nothing of Elder blood, or its ways.'

 

'You're counting on Rake betraying Pale's wizards - betraying the pact he made between them.'

 

'The risk is not as overreaching as it may seem,' the High Mage said. 'Bellurdan has done some research in Genebaris, Sorceress. Some new scrolls of Gothos' Folly were discovered in a mountain fastness beyond Blackdog Forest. Among the writings are discussion of the Tiste Andii, and other peoples from the Elder Age. And remember, Moon's Spawn has withdrawn from a direct confrontation with the Empire before.'

 

(GotM, UK mmpb p.70)

 

 

"'Imagine a lord who's kept thirty thousand Great Ravens well fed!'"

 

 

- words of Hairlock (GotM, UK mmpb p.74, UK Trade p.56)

 

 

"A figure had appeared on the ledge before the portal, its arms upraised, long silver hair blowing from its head.

 

Mane of Chaos. Anomander Rake. Lord of the black-skinned Tiste Andii, who has looked down on a hundred thousand winters, who has tasted the blood of dragons, who leads the last of his kind, seated in the Throne of Sorrow and a kingdom tragic and fey – a kingdom with no land to call its own.

 

Anomander Rake looked tiny against the backdrop of his edifice, almost insubstantial at this distance. The illusion was about to be shattered. She gasped as the aura of his power bloomed outward - too see it at such distance..."

 

- thoughts of Tattersail (UK mmpb p.75, UK Trade p.56)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Anomander Rake’s skin was jet-black, befitting Gothos’ descriptions,but his mane flowed silver. He stood close to seven feet tall. His features were sharp, as if cut from onyx, a slight upward tilt to the large vertical-pupilled eyes."

GotM, p.155

"The Tiste Andii spread his arms wide, then rose upward. Kurald Galain sorcery swirled around him, blending his clothing, his massive sword, drawing all inward to the shape he now climbed towards. The veering was smooth, eloquent, as jet-black wings unfolded from his shoulders. Flesh and bone surged in size, changed in shape. As he flew higher, eyes fixed on the stars, Anomander Rake became a black dragon, silver-maned and dwarfing even Silanah. His eyes gleamed silver, the vertical slits of the pupils dilating. His breath gusted in heavy grunts, the snap of his wings loud amid the deep groan of muscle on bone. His chest swelled to draw in the cold, dry air, and power filled his being."

GotM, p.493

 

Memories of Ice

 

 

"Lady Envy: 'Anomander Rake once crossed blades with a score of Seguleh, one after the other. He’d paid an unannounced visit to the island – knowing nothing of the inhabitants. Taking human form and fashioning a mask for himself, he elected to walk down the city’s main thoroughfare. Being naturally arrogant, he showed no deference to any who crossed his path...Two bells. That was the full duration of Rake’s visit to the island and its people. He described the ferocity of that short time, and his dismay and exhaustion which led him to withdraw into his warren if only to slow the hammering of his heart.'"

MoI, UK Trade, p.130

"Anomander Rake, in all the time (Korlat) had known him, had acknowledged but one friend, and that was Caladan Brood. And between those two men, thousands of years of shared experiences, an alliance never broken. Countless clashes, it was true, but not once a final, irretrievable sundering."

MoI, UK Trade, p.702

"Whiskeyjack, in his heart, was certain that Anomander Rake was not dead. Not even lost. In the half-dozen late-night conversations he had shared with the Lord of Moon's Spawn, the Malazan had acquired a sense of Tiste Andii: despite the alliances, including the long-term partnership with Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake was a man of solitude - an almost pathological independence. He was indifferent to the needs of others, for whatever reassurance or confirmation they might expect or demand."

MoI MMPB, p.1006

 

House of Chains

 

 

"T'riss:'Anomander once spent almost two centuries in the guise of a royal bodyguard . . . human.'"

HoC, UK Trade, p.429

 

Midnight Tides

 

 

"Scabandari Bloodeye:"Anomandaris Irake, who broke with his mother and with his kind. Who then vanished before I could deal with him. Vanished, probably never to be seen again.""

MT, HB, pg. 5

 

 

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