Dassem Ultor

Name: Dassem Ultor

Pseudonyms: First Sword of Empire, Traveller, Dessembrae

Age: unknown, at least 100 years

Race: human, Dal Honese

Appearance: Dusky skinned, grey-shot black curled hair cut short, though his eyes were a deep blue. His features were even, though crisscrossed with scars.

Warren: unknown, any magic he possesses will derive from his godhood and ascendancy since he doesn't appear to be a mage

Further info: He is Dessembrae, Lord of Tears, and was once sworn to Hood as the Knight of High House Death.

"'The First Sword of Empire. Dassem Ultor. We heard it in the capital before we left. He's dead. Is it true? Is Dassem dead?'

The man [Whiskeyjack] seemed to flinch, his gaze unwavering on the Mouse. 'Such is war,' he muttered, under his breath, as if the words were not meant for anyone else's ears. 

'You're with the Third. I thought the Third was with him, in Seven Cities. At Y'Ghatan --'

'Hood's breath, they're still looking for his body in the still-hot rubble of that damned city...'

'...It's said he betrayed a god.'"

- Young Ganoes Paran and Whiskeyjack speak (GotM, UK MMPB p.4)

"He'd [Hairlock] joined the 2nd’s cadre at Pan'potsun – like Dujek himself he’d been there, with the Emperor’s old guard, when the first vipers of usurpation had stirred, the day the Empire’s First Sword was betrayed and brutally murdered."

- thoughts of Tattersail (GotM, UK Trade p.52, UK mmpb p.69)

Tattersail to Whiskeyjack : ‘Back in Seven Cities,’ she said quietly, ‘the story goes that the Emperor’s First Sword – his commander of his armies – Dassem Ultor, had accepted a god’s offer. Hood made Dassem his Knight of Death. Then something happened, something went . . . wrong. And Dassem renounced the title, swore a vow of vengeance against Hood – against the Lord of Death himself. All at once other Ascendants started meddling, manipulating events. It all culminated with Dassem’s murder, then the Emperor’s assassination, and blood in the streets, temples at war, sorceries unleashed.’ (GotM, Tpb. p. 98)

Apsalar to Fiddler : ‘Dancer trusted but two men. One was Kellanved. The other was

Dassem Ultor, the First Sword. Dassem is dead.' (DG Tpb, p130)

'Early in Kellanved's reign, cults proliferated among the Imperial armies, particularly among the Marines. It should be remembered that this was also the time of Dassem Ultor, First Sword and Supreme Commander of the Malazan forces...a man sworn to Hood...

Malazan Campaigns, vol.II

Duiker' (DG, UK MMPB, p.211)

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. - Life of Dassem Ultor - Duiker (DG Tpb,p.270)

''Dessembrae. The Cult of Dassem.''

- thoughts of Fiddler (DG, TPB p.321, UK mmpb p.452)

Nok to Tavore :'Dassem Ultor – who was, like Kellanved, of Dal Honese blood' (HoC Tpb, p.208)

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