Malazan Engineers

The Malazan engineers are a unique breed. Cantankerous, foul-mouthed, derisive of authority, secretive and thick-headed. They are the heartstone of the Malazan Army...
The Imperial Military
Senjalle
DG, UK MMPB, p.352

Iskaral Pust: 'Damned sappers! Who invented them? Madness!'
Fiddler: '...Why Kellanved, who else -'

DG, UK MMPB, p.352

"...only sappers know a sapper's way of thinking and behaving, and sometimes not even them."

- Lull
DG, UK MMPB, p.768

"The sappers' encampment was set somewhat apart from the others - as far away as possible when they carried Moranth munitions...Look for the most disordered collection of tents and foul-smelling vapours aswarm with mosquitoes and gnats and you'll have found the Malazan Engineers. And in that quarter you'll find soldiers shaking like leaves, with splash-burn pockmarks, singed hair and a dark, manic gleam in their eyes."

DG, UK MMPB, p.549

"Sappers got a saying...Wide-eyed stupid."

- Fiddler
DG, UK MMPB, p.777