The Moranth

 

 

 

 

A secretive race of (it is assumed) humans, living in X Forest on Genebackis. Never seen without their armour. Only one Moranth character has been named or played any role in the main story - Twist. The main import of the Malazan-Moranth alliance has been the supply of Moranth munitions to the Malazan military.

 

 

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"Allies. They're claiming their hour of blood. At the end of that hour there would be a few score thousand fewer survivors among the citizens of Pale. The long savage history between the neighbouring peoples was about to have the scales of retribution balanced. By the sword."

 

- thoughts of Tattersail (GotM, UK mmpb p.53)

 

 

"The Black Moranth legions lined the ridge to the west a quarter-mile distant."

 

- preparing to assault Pale (GotM, UK mmpb p.72)

 

 

'We know so little about these Moranth – no one has ever seen their cities in the forest. I can’t even tell their sex. Most scholars held that they were true humans, but there was no way to tell – the Moranth collected their own dead from the battlefields. There would be trouble in the Empire if the Moranth ever exercised a thirst for power. From what he had heard, however, the various colour factions among them marked an ever-changing hierarchy, and the rivalry and competition remained at a fanatical pitch.'(GotM, UK Trade, p.115)

 

 

Ganoes Paran POV: ''The uncanny warriors hardly ever spoke, and when they did it was to each other in that incomprehensible tongue of theirs.'(GotM, UK Trade, p.84)

 

'...the black-armoured warriors from beyond the western mountains, whose faces remained hidden behind the chitinous visors on their helms and who spoke in clicks and buzzes'(GotM, UK Trade, p.62-3)

 

'The Green do most of the courier stuff, and moving people around...but the Black are stationed in Pale, and the different clans don’t like to mix. The Moranth are made up of a bunch of clans, got colours for names, and wear them too. Nobody gets confused that way.’

(GotM, UK Trade, p.73)

 

Dujek: 'a hell of a time getting the Gold legions – their élite warriors – to fight Caladan Brood. Seems they consider him too honourable to treat as an enemy. The whole alliance was on shaky ground for a while there, but in the end they marched.'(GotM, UK Trade, p.212)

 

Cafal:'The Moranth speak the language of the Barghast shouldermen – the holy tongue – the language that rose from the pit of darkness from whence all thought and all words first came. The Moranth claim kinship with the Barghast – they call us their Fallen Kin. But it is they who have fallen, not us. They who have found a shadowed

forest in which to live. They who have embraced the alchemies of the T’isten’ur. They who made peace with the demons long ago, exchanging secrets, before retreating into their mountain fastnesses and hiding for ever behind their insect masks.'(MoI, UK Trade, p.325)

 

'Children of the Shattered Warren. A fragment had been discovered, in the vast forest of Moranth that would become our new homeland. Kurald Emurlahn, the true face of Shadow. There were so few Tiste Edur left, we chose to welcome them. The last of them are gone now, from Moranth Wood, long gone, but their legacy is what has made us as we are.'

'Achievant, it may take me a while to make sense of what you've just described. I have questions—'

Twist shrugged again. 'We did not slay the Tiste Edur. In Barghast eyes, that is our createst crime. I wonder, however, if the Elder Spirits - now gods - see it in similar light.' (MoI, mmpb, p.954-955)

 

 

A Moranth on the purge of Pale:

 

‘In our eyes deeds have measure. We judge. We act upon our judgements. As in Pale,

we match spirit with spirit...Eighteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine souls departed in the purge of Pale. One for each Moranth confirmed as a victim of Pale’s

history of enmity towards us. Spirit with spirit, Bird That Steals...There are worms within your empire’s flesh. But such degradation is natural in all bodies. Your people’s infection is not yet fatal. It can be scoured clean. The Moranth are skilled at such efforts.’(GotM, UK Trade, p.190)

 

The Moranth annals go back 7000 years (seven tens of centuries - MoI, UK Trade, p.727)

 

Known Moranth Clans/Castes

 

Green

 

Black - "but as she watched the tight ranks of a legion of Black Moranth marching into the city..." (GotM, UK mmpb p.52)

 

Gold

 

Silver

 

Blue

 

'The Blue Moranth, who ply the seas and sink nets into the deep trenches' (MoI, UK Trade, p.727)

 

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