Beings of immense power who have transcended normal mortality, including gods, demi-gods, and powerful mortals who have ...

A city on the continent of Genabackis that becomes the seat of the Tiste Andii under Anomander Rake after the events of ...

The Malazan army that forms around Adjunct Tavore Paran after the Chain of Dogs. Named for their march through the deser...

An elite military unit of the Malazan army, veterans of the Emperor's earliest campaigns and the most famous soldiers in...

The legendary fighting retreat led by Fist Coltaine across Seven Cities, protecting tens of thousands of Malazan refugee...

A phenomenon in the Malazan world where multiple powerful forces - gods, Ascendants, armies, magical entities - are draw...

A being from an alien realm who was pulled into the Malazan world by a cabal of mages and shattered on impact, his body ...

A major city on the continent of Genabackis, known as the City of Blue Fire for the gas-lit flames that burn along its s...

A divinatory tool used to read the shifting alignments of power in the Malazan world. Each card in the Deck represents a...

The legendary black sword wielded by Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness. Forged by the Elder God Draconus, Dragnipur chains...

An ancient, powerful race hunted nearly to extinction by the T'lan Imass. The Jaghut are solitary by nature, their civil...

Capital of the Letherii Empire on a separate continent, a mercantile civilisation obsessed with debt, commerce, and the ...

A vast military empire that has conquered much of the known world through a combination of military might, pragmatic gov...

The Elder Warren of ice, associated with the Jaghut. Omtose Phellack represents stasis, preservation, and isolation - al...

A subcontinent and the setting of much of Deadhouse Gates and House of Chains. Seven Cities is a hot, desert-dominated l...

An ancient race of proto-humans who performed the Ritual of Tellann over 300,000 years ago, transforming themselves into...

The Elder Warren of fire, associated with the T'lan Imass. The Ritual of Tellann is what transformed the Imass from mort...

An ancient non-human race from the realm of Kurald Galain (Darkness), led by Anomander Rake, the Son of Darkness. The Ti...

The sources of magical power in the Malazan world, alternate dimensions or pathways that mages access to fuel their sorc...