Coltaine

"Coltaine reborn, will he have a role in future books? Not in this series, I don't think. I may change my mind, but don't put money on it."

- Steven Erikson
Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003)

Coltaine, Fist, 7th Army

DG, Dramatis Personae

"They seemed to have found a leader, a tall, fierce-looking warrior with fetishes in his long braids, who now bellowed encouragement, waving his own weapon over his head."

DG, UK mmpb, p.52

"...the warleader of the Crow Clan showed the weathering of forty years on the north Wickan Plains of Quon Tali. His lean, expressionless face was lined, deep brackets around the thin, wide mouth, and squint tracks at the corners of his dark, deep-set eyes. Oiled braids hung down past his shoulders, knotted with crow-feather fetishes. He was tall, wearing a battered vest of chain over a hide shirt, a crow-feather cloak hanging from his broad shoulders down to the backs of his knees. He wore a rider's leggings, laced with gut up the outer sides to his hips. A single horn-handled long-knife jutted out from under his left arm."

DG, UK MMPB, p.73