Toc the Younger
Name: Toc the Younger
Pseudonyms: ?
Age: ?
Race: Human
Appearance: "Half the man's face had been burned away. A patch covered the right eye and the man held his head at an odd angle." (GotM, US HC, p.95)
Further Info: A Claw scout of the Malazan 2nd Army.
A scout in the Malazan 2nd Army, also a Claw agent, he accompanied Ganoes Paran from Pale to Darujhistan. They were intercepted by Hairlock who threw him through a rent. He found himself much further to the north, in the company of Tool, Lady Envy and three Seguleh. He was caught by the Pannion Domin, where he was tortured to death. He was rebirthed as Anaster.
Toc the Younger, scout, 2nd Army, a Claw agent badly scarred at the Siege of Pale
GotM, Dramatis Personae
GotM, Dramatis Personae
"Only, if you get into trouble, you get word to Toc the Younger, that's me. I'm in the Messenger Corps, outrider class, the Second."
GotM, US HC, p.97
GotM, US HC, p.97
"The Claw laughed. 'You've really been out of touch, haven't you? They called me in because I'm the last Active in the Second. And as for the Fifth and Sixth - forget it. Brood's Tiste Andii could pick out a Claw from a thousand paces."
GotM, US HC, p.96
GotM, US HC, p.96
Attributed Works
The Bridgeburners
What see you in the horizon's bruised smear
That cannot be blotted out
By your raised hand?
The Bridgeburners
Toc the Younger
DG, UK MMPB, p.21
That cannot be blotted out
By your raised hand?
The Bridgeburners
Toc the Younger
DG, UK MMPB, p.21
He stepped down then
among women and men,
the sigil stripped
in her foul cleansing
there on the blood-soaked sand
spilled the lives
of Emperor and First Sword –
so tragic this treachery . . .
He was of the Old Guard,
commanding the honed edge
of Empire’s fury,
and so in stepping down
but not away
he remained the remembrance
before her eyes, the curse
of conscience she would not stand.
A price was placed before him
that he glanced over in first passing
unknowing and so unprepared
in stepping down among women
and men, he found what
he’d surrendered and damned
its reawakening . . .
The Bridgeburners
Toc the Younger
GotM, UK Trade, p.188
among women and men,
the sigil stripped
in her foul cleansing
there on the blood-soaked sand
spilled the lives
of Emperor and First Sword –
so tragic this treachery . . .
He was of the Old Guard,
commanding the honed edge
of Empire’s fury,
and so in stepping down
but not away
he remained the remembrance
before her eyes, the curse
of conscience she would not stand.
A price was placed before him
that he glanced over in first passing
unknowing and so unprepared
in stepping down among women
and men, he found what
he’d surrendered and damned
its reawakening . . .
The Bridgeburners
Toc the Younger
GotM, UK Trade, p.188
They were of a kind, then
the histories writ large
in tattooed tracery
the tales a tracking
of old wounds
but something glowed hard
in their eyes – those
flame-gnawed arches,
that vanishing span,
they are their own past
each in turn destined
to fall in line
on the quiet wayside
beside the river
they refuse to name . . .
The Bridgeburners (IV.i)
Toc the Younger (b.1141)
GotM, UK Trade, p.93
the histories writ large
in tattooed tracery
the tales a tracking
of old wounds
but something glowed hard
in their eyes – those
flame-gnawed arches,
that vanishing span,
they are their own past
each in turn destined
to fall in line
on the quiet wayside
beside the river
they refuse to name . . .
The Bridgeburners (IV.i)
Toc the Younger (b.1141)
GotM, UK Trade, p.93
Lay of Onos T'oolan
Have you seen the one
who stands apart
cursed in a ritual
sealing his kind
beyond death the host
amassed and whirling
like a plague of pollen –
he stands apart
the First among all
ever veiled in time
yet outcast and alone
a T’lan Imass wandering
like a seed unfallen
Lay of Onos T’oolan
Toc the Younger
GotM, UK Trade, p.197
who stands apart
cursed in a ritual
sealing his kind
beyond death the host
amassed and whirling
like a plague of pollen –
he stands apart
the First among all
ever veiled in time
yet outcast and alone
a T’lan Imass wandering
like a seed unfallen
Lay of Onos T’oolan
Toc the Younger
GotM, UK Trade, p.197
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