The Tiste Andii, Children of Darkness

Race: Tiste Andii
Also known as:
Warren: Kurald Galain
Appearance: Black skin, black or white hair
Famous Members: Anomander Rake, Silchas Ruin, Andarist
Members we have met: Anomander Rake, Silchas Ruin, Orfantal, Horult, Korlat, Serrat, Orfantal, Jekaral, Boruld, Dashtal, Killanthir, Sandalath Drukorlat
Further info:

"...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.'"

(GotM, UK mmpb p.67, UK Trade p.50)

"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?'"

(GotM, UK mmpb p.70)

'Tiste Andii hair was either silver-white or midnight black.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.335)

'The Tiste Andii considered it (The union of Mother Dark with the Light) a degradation of pure Dark, and the source of all their subsequent ills' (DG, UK MMPB, p.336)

Korlat's thoughts: 'despair is the nemesis of the Tiste Andii. How often have I seen my kin fall on the field of battle, and have known – deep in my soul – that my brothers and sisters did not die through an inability to defend themselves? They died, because they had chosen to die. Slain by their own despair.
Our gravest threat.'(MoI, UK Trade, p.748)

The Mhybe's thoughts: 'a people plagued by indifference, an apathy that made even the efforts of civil discourse too much to contemplate. There were secret tragedies in the long, tortured past of the Tiste Andii. Wounds that would never heal. Even suffering...was capable of becoming a way of life. To then extend such an existence from decades into centuries, then into millennia ...those few of them who were killed on such occasions were simply left on the ground. It had fallen to the Rhivi to retrieve those bodies, to treat them in the Rhivi way and to mourn their passing. The Tiste Andii looked upon such efforts without expression, as if bemused by the attention accorded to a mere corpse. '(MoI, UK Trade, p.73-4)

Given Names

Anomandaris, Anomander
Silchas
Andarist
Orfantal
Horult
Sandalath
Korlat
Serrat
Orfantal
Jekaral
Boruld
Dashtal
Killanthir

Surnames

Irake (Rake, Purake?)
Drukorlat
Ruin

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