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The newest batch of champions who would challenge Rhulad Sengar, the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, have arrived in Letheras. Among the champions are Icarium Lifestealer and the Teblor warrior Karsa Orlong. Urns have been prepared for these champions well in advance, as no one has ever managed to slay the Emperor with finality. But it seems that the land itself remembers Icarium...
Letur Anict, the Factor in the conquered Letherii territory of Drene, is well under way into conquering the area's native Awl people, and acquiring the tribesmen's herds that are highly sought after. The newly assigned Edur overseer does not like this, but he could not find any means of stopping the war. A masked man named Redmask appears, uniting the remaining Awl, in an attempt to fight back. His trump card -- his inhuman companions.
Seren Pedac guides a party consisting of the eldest Sengar son, Fear Sengar, brother to Rhulad; the former slave, Udinaas; the former undead child Kettle; and the Tiste Edur's ancient enemy Silchas Ruin. Fear's motives are to find his ancestor Scabandari Bloodeye's soul in the hopes of saving his brother and his people. Silchas Ruin's motives, however, are known to no one but himself.
Meanwhile the Bonehunters, led by Adjunct Tavore Paran, after having travelled across the world allegedly in answer to the Tiste Edur's atrocity in the island kingdom of Sepik, land on Lether's shores.
Letur Anict, the Factor in the conquered Letherii territory of Drene, is well under way into conquering the area's native Awl people, and acquiring the tribesmen's herds that are highly sought after. The newly assigned Edur overseer does not like this, but he could not find any means of stopping the war. A masked man named Redmask appears, uniting the remaining Awl, in an attempt to fight back. His trump card -- his inhuman companions.
Seren Pedac guides a party consisting of the eldest Sengar son, Fear Sengar, brother to Rhulad; the former slave, Udinaas; the former undead child Kettle; and the Tiste Edur's ancient enemy Silchas Ruin. Fear's motives are to find his ancestor Scabandari Bloodeye's soul in the hopes of saving his brother and his people. Silchas Ruin's motives, however, are known to no one but himself.
Meanwhile the Bonehunters, led by Adjunct Tavore Paran, after having travelled across the world allegedly in answer to the Tiste Edur's atrocity in the island kingdom of Sepik, land on Lether's shores.
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Into Letheras, the imperial capital, arrives the great fleet commanded by the Emperor's estranged father Tomad Sengar to deliver the newest group of champions. Urns are prepared for their ashes in the Eternal Domicile well in advance, as the Crippled God's sorcery makes Rhulad close to invincible. Yet among the newcomers are Icarium Lifestealer and the Teblor warrior Karsa
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The scheming among the Letherii and Edur elite for command of imperial power, and to a lesser extent even the hidden struggle between the Liberty Consign and [[spoiler: Tehol Beddict]] over the future of Lether as a society, ultimately end up mattering little due to [[spoiler: Karsa Orlong and Tavore Paran. As the Bonehunters destroy the Empire's armies and capture Letheras, and Karsa kills Rhulad Sengar with finality, power passes out of Letherii and Edur hands entirely. The varied factions of the Eternal Domicile are all destroyed, the foundations for the political calculations of everyone involved fall away and even Tehol's reign comes about by leave of the Bönehunter occupation.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The scheming among the Letherii and Edur elite for command of imperial power, and to a lesser extent even the hidden struggle between the Liberty Consign and [[spoiler: Tehol Beddict]] over the future of Lether as a society, ultimately end up mattering little due to [[spoiler: Karsa Orlong and Tavore Paran. As the Bonehunters destroy the Empire's armies and capture Letheras, and Karsa kills Rhulad Sengar with finality, power passes out of Letherii and Edur hands entirely. The varied factions of the Eternal Domicile are all destroyed, the foundations for the political calculations of everyone involved fall away and even Tehol's reign comes about by leave of the Bönehunter Bonehunter occupation.]]
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* HopeSpot: In Chapter Nine, the power struggles within the Edur Empire of Lether briefly turn against the most amoral and harmful groups involved as [[spoiler: Karos Invictad overreaches against the Edur elite, moving to arrest their ally First Concubine Nisall without proper intelligence or preparation. Bruthen Trana, the most proactive of the Edur determined to regain control of the empire, leads a contingent of warriors against the headquarters of the Patriotists and briefly has both Chancellor Triban Gnol and Invictad at his mercy. Nisall, however, has already signed a confession to treason by the time Trana arrives in order to avoid ColdBloodedTorture, which enables Invictad to murder her without having to fear his version of events being contradicted. Trana, who is [[WrongGenreSavvy less than proficient at underhanded politics]], [[IdiotBall ignores]] the obvious possibility of destroying the confession and killing Invictad, and instead leaves both Gnol and Invictad alive but beaten and humiliated. Needless to say, neither underestimates their Edur opponents another time and their power over the imperial state remains unbroken until the end.]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The scheming among the Letherii and Edur elite for command of imperial power, and to a lesser extent even the hidden struggle between the Liberty Consign and [[spoiler: Tehol Beddict]] over the future of Lether as a society, ultimately end up mattering little due to [[spoiler: Karsa Orlong and Tavore Paran. As the Bonehunters destroy the Empire's armies and capture Letheras, and Karsa kills Rhulad Sengar with finality, power passes out of Letherii and Edur hands entirely. The varied factions of the Eternal Domicile are all destroyed, the foundations for the political calculations of everyone involved fall away and even Tehol's reign comes about by leave of the Bönehunter occupation.]]
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--> '''Karos Invictad:''' We're not interested in factual reportage here.
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* PersecutedIntellectuals: The Patriotists purge a part of Letheras' intellectual elite before and early on in the book. After the academics with influential families protest through their connections, no new arrests are made, but those already imprisoned are never seen again. Though intellectuals generally tend to be anti-authoritarian, and the Patriotists certainly need no special reason to persecute people, we also learn that Karos Invictad, the Invigilator of the Patriotists, is a former (failed) student himself, and it is heavily implied that he is conducting the purge out of revenge.
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* PersecutedIntellectuals: The Patriotists purge a part of Letheras' intellectual elite before and early on in the book. After the academics with influential families protest through their connections, protest, no new arrests are made, made but those already imprisoned are never seen again. Though intellectuals generally tend to be anti-authoritarian, anti-authoritarian and the Patriotists certainly need no special reason to persecute people, we also learn that Karos Invictad, the Invigilator of the Patriotists, is a former (failed) student himself, and it is heavily implied that he is conducting the purge out of revenge.
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* SanitySlippage: Karos Invictad, head of Lether's secret police, ''loves'' to solve puzzles to prove his own mental superiority. To that end, Tehol sends him one- a centipede in a box with moving colored tiles, constantly chasing its own tail. When the tiles are arranged in a certain manner, the centipede would will stop moving. If the puzzle wasn't isn't solved in time, the insect would will die and the puzzle is judged a failure. failed. If the insect is touched, the puzzle is a failure. failed. Karos delights in the challenge is delighted at first, but he becomes gradually more and more unhinged and terrible at his job as he obsesses over all the ways he can move moves the tiles with but the insect never stopping.stops. He goes from an efficient head of the secret police to a ravenous loon via VillainousBreakdown by the end of the novel.
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* SanitySlippage: Tehol deduces that Karos Invictad is the only person in Lether that can be any threat to him. But Karos ''loves'' to solve puzzles as a hobby to prove his own mental superiority. To that end, Tehol sends Karos an unsolveable puzzle- a centipede in a box, constantly chasing its own tail. The box had a set of movable tiles that, when arranged in a certain manner, would cause the centipede to stop moving. If the puzzle wasn't solved in time, the insect would die and the puzzle is judged a failure. If the insect is touched, the puzzle is a failure. Karos delights in the challenge at first, but he becomes gradually more and more unhinged as he obsesses over all the ways he can move the tiles with the insect never stopping. He goes from an efficient head of the secret police to a ravenous loon by the end of the novel.
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* SanitySlippage: Tehol deduces that Karos Invictad is the only person in Lether that can be any threat to him. But Karos Invictad, head of Lether's secret police, ''loves'' to solve puzzles as a hobby to prove his own mental superiority. To that end, Tehol sends Karos an unsolveable puzzle- him one- a centipede in a box, box with moving colored tiles, constantly chasing its own tail. The box had a set of movable When the tiles that, when are arranged in a certain manner, would cause the centipede to would stop moving. If the puzzle wasn't solved in time, the insect would die and the puzzle is judged a failure. If the insect is touched, the puzzle is a failure. Karos delights in the challenge at first, but he becomes gradually more and more unhinged and terrible at his job as he obsesses over all the ways he can move the tiles with the insect never stopping. He goes from an efficient head of the secret police to a ravenous loon via VillainousBreakdown by the end of the novel.
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* SanitySlippage: Tehol deduces that Karos Invictad is the only person in Lether that can be any threat to him. But Karos ''loves'' to solve puzzles as a hobby to prove his own mental superiority. To that end, Tehol sends Karos an unsolveable puzzle- a centipede in a box, constantly chasing its own tail. The box had a set of movable tiles that, when arranged in a certain manner, would cause the centipede to stop moving. If the puzzle wasn't solved in time, the insect would die and the puzzle is judged a failure. If the insect is touched, the puzzle is a failure. Karos delights in the challenge at first, but he becomes gradually more and more unhinged as he obsesses over all the ways he can move the tiles with the insect never stopping. He goes from an efficient head of the secret police to a ravenous loon by the end of the novel.
** The solution as revealed by Tehol? [[spoiler: If you fog up any one of the tiles with your breath, then the insect will see its reflection and stop spinning.]]
** The solution as revealed by Tehol? [[spoiler: If you fog up any one of the tiles with your breath, then the insect will see its reflection and stop spinning.]]
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* GladiatorGames: Rhulad Sengar, master of the Letherii and Edur, uses his infinite power to send fleets across the world- to capture competitors to battle in an arena, all in the hopes of finding someone who can finally kill him. A Seguleh, Icarium, and Karsa Orlong are just three of the many hardened warriors his fleets bring back.
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* GladiatorGames: Rhulad Sengar, master of the Letherii and Edur, uses his infinite power to send fleets across the world- to capture competitors to battle in an arena, all in the hopes of finding someone who can finally kill him.the Emperor of the Thousand Deaths for good. A Seguleh, Icarium, and Karsa Orlong are just three of the many hardened warriors his fleets bring back. [[spoiler: Karsa puts Rhulad down, permanently.]]
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* WhileRomeBurns: The Edur and Lether armies are scattered, the outer provinces of the Empire are in open revolt, and 14th Army is at the gates of the capital. Emperor Rhulad Sengar can't be bothered though. He's too busy fighting Karsa Orlong, trying to find a warrior that can kill him for good. [[spoiler: Karsa gets the job done.]]
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* MyGreatestFailure: Despite all the horrifying things that were done to him as a child, the one thing Beak remembers and regrets from that time was that he witnessed his brother hanging himself in the family barn, and was too small and weak to lift him and stop his suicide.
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* PersonalizedAfterlife: A rare honor granted by Hood to [[spoiler: Beak after he saves both the Malazan and the Edur armies by unleashing the powers of all the Warrens and disintegrating his body. Hood recreates the homestead Beak remembers from his childhood, with the spirit of his brother before he hung himself in shame from the sexual abuse of their mother. Beak being Beak, he doesn't understand (or care) about Hood's statement that he's been afforded a rare honor by the God of Death and runs to play with his brother.]]
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* PersonalizedAfterlife: A rare honor granted by Hood to [[spoiler: Beak after he saves both the Malazan and the Edur armies by unleashing the powers of all the Warrens and disintegrating his body. Hood recreates the homestead Beak remembers from his childhood, with the spirit of his brother before he hung himself in shame from the sexual abuse of their mother. Beak being Beak, he doesn't understand (or care) about Hood's statement that he's been afforded a rare honor by the God of Death and [[TearJerker runs to play with his brother.brother for all eternity]].]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: Hannan Mosag's plan to destroy the Malazan invaders involves unleashing a wave of corrupted Edur Sorcery that will decimate them and the Edur forces. Beak doesn't like that at all and uses all of his Warrens to create a protective shield large enough to shelter the Malazans ''and'' the Edur. Beak is turned to ash by the act, but he saves everyone on both sides of the conflict.
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* PersonalizedAfterlife: A rare honor granted by Hood to [[spoiler: Beak after he saves both the Malazan and the Edur armies by unleashing the powers of all the Warrens and disintegrating his body. Hood recreates the homestead Beak remembers from his childhood, with the spirit of his brother before he hung himself in shame from the sexual abuse of their mother. Beak being Beak, he doesn't understand (or care) about Hood's statement that he's been afforded a rare honor by the God of Death and runs to play with his brother.]]
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Seren Pedac]] finds out she is pregnant after [[spoiler:Trull Sengar dies]].
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* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: [[spoiler:Seren Pedac]] finds out discovers she is pregnant after her love interest [[spoiler:Trull Sengar dies]].Sengar]] has a particularly random [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on him]] via a random knife InTheBack. It even manages to check all the bonus points: they have sex exactly once, on the night of the book's final, and it's also the latter's first time (technically). At least that last part is gender flipped.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: It has been seen in ''Literature/MidnightTides'' that Rhulad's sword forcefully resurrects him every time he is killed in battle. By the time ''Reaper's Gale'' comes around, it has acquired him the title of Emperor of a Thousand Deaths, because the Edur are now seeking champions to fight and kill Rhulad to make him stronger all over the world.
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* ResurrectiveImmortality: It has been seen in ''Literature/MidnightTides'' that Rhulad's sword forcefully resurrects him every time he is killed in battle. By ScaledUp:
** The mage Quick Ben uses thetime ''Reaper's Gale'' comes around, it has acquired him ability of the title [[PhysicalGod demi-goddesses]] Menandore, Sheltatha Lore and Sukul Ankhadu to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting turn into dragons]] against them. Since all dragons, true or not, have a bad case of Emperor the ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, he waits until they all veer in order to attack him, then leads them into turning on each other.
** Also, in a deliberate anticlimax, Silchas Ruin veers into a dragon in order to attack the city ofa Thousand Deaths, Letheras because he feels like it, only to be driven off by a couple of soldiers with grenades who shout that [[PlayedForLaughs they'd had enough of dragons for the Edur are now seeking champions to fight and kill Rhulad to make him stronger all over the world.day]].
** The mage Quick Ben uses the
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* MonsterIsAMommy: The emlava Onrack, Trull Sengar and Quick Ben stumble upon in the Refugium turns out to be a mommy. They feel obliged to take care of her cubs after Onrack kills her.
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* MonsterIsAMommy: The emlava Onrack, Trull Sengar and Quick Ben stumble upon in Played straight without the Refugium turns out to be a mommy. They feel obliged to take care of her cubs after bonus points for cuteness. Onrack tracks an emlava, the story's equivalent of a steroid-using saber-tooth tiger, and kills her.it, only to realize after the fact that its behavior was not typical of a hunting emlava. It had several cubs and his party takes over stewardship of them. Said cubs are less than cute, requiring that the characters regularly check to ensure no limbs are in range of them.
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* DrunkenMaster: Sergeant Hellian is surprisingly competent both as a sergeant as long as she is able to keep up her alcohol intake, conducting her part of the Malazan invasion of Lether one tavern at a time.
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* ImmortalityHurts: Rhulad doesn't bear physical scars from his deaths, but every time he gets resurrected by his sword, his psyche breaks more and more. The results are noticed by several people around him and it is utterly pitiful.
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* IdiotSavant: Beak, who seems a lot like he has autism and serves as a squad mage, and just wants to be friends with everyone. He is, however, able to access all the warrens of magic, using a model where he views the warrens as different-colored candles he can light as needed.
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* IdiotSavant: Beak, who seems a lot like he has autism and serves as a squad mage, and just wants to be friends with everyone. He is, however, able to access all everyone, has an incredible natural magical ability that would've put him on the warrens fast track to High Mage rank, if not for a combination of magic, using AmbiguousDisorder, childhood traumas and a model where he views Film/{{Forrest Gump}}ish mental state -- which combine to give him NoSocialSkills and a mental handicap in understanding the warrens world around him unless it has to do with magic. Even that he simplifies to a great degree. While other mages see magic as different-colored candles he a complicated net of cause and effect, Beak simply sees differently coloured candles. And while other rmages can light as needed.use one, maybe two of the [[FunctionalMagic Paths of Magic]], Beak can use ''all of them''. The other mages usually take a whiff of his magical potential, hear him babbling on about something and just give him a hug before they walk away crying.
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* DistantPrologue: The prologue of ''Reaper's Gale'' continues where that of ''Literature/MidnightTides'' left off at an unnamed point during TheTimeOfMyths, during the Age of Sundering in the Time of the Elder Gods, and shows the downfall of Scabandari Bloodeye right after the Tiste Edur invasion.
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* CoolMask: Redmask's red-scaled mask which is made of the hide of a K'Chain matron's throat.
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* CoolMask: Redmask's red-scaled mask which is made of the hide of a [[LizardFolk K'Chain matron's throat.Che'Malle]] [[HiveQueen Matron's]] throat, implicitly indicating that he killed her to gain her scaled hide.
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* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Discussed and averted with [[HugeGuyTinyGirl Karsa Orlong and Samar Dev]]. The former is, admittedly, from what passes as a race of giants in the series, and the latter a normal human woman, so Karsa is quite aware of the.. impracticalities.
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* LockedUpAndLeftBehind: Rhulad Sengar, who is being driven insane by his ArtifactOfDoom sword, orders his parents chained up in the dungeons after they dared speak against him in open court. When he remembers later to let them out, he's told that they drowned when the dungeons flooded, days earlier.
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* InTheBack: [[spoiler:Sirryn Kanar stabs Trull Sengar in the back while the latter is momentarily distracted, courtesy of the Errant.]] He seems to be thinking it's a TheDogBitesBack moment against the the latter's whole people, except [[spoiler:Trull Sengar]] is the only one ''not'' to be blamed.
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** Sirryn Kanar stabsTrull Sengar [[spoiler:Trull Sengar]] in the back while the latter is momentarily distracted, courtesy of [[JerkassGods the Errant.]] Errant]]. He seems to be thinking it's a TheDogBitesBack moment "TheDogBitesBack"-moment against the the latter's whole people, people for conquering Lether, except [[spoiler:Trull Sengar]] is the [[TheExile only one one]] ''not'' to be blamed.blamed.
** Towards the end of the book, there's a CallBack to Scabandari backstabbing Silchas Ruin in the prologue of ''Literature/MidnightTides''. [[spoiler:Fear Sengar]] ''tries'' to stab Silchas Ruin in the back, and he is a descendant of one of Scabandari's followers. He is then however in turn killed from behind with a garotte by [[ProfessionalKiller Clip]], who is a descendant of one of Silchas Ruin's followers from the time the first backstabbing happened.
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** Towards the end of the book, there's a CallBack to Scabandari backstabbing Silchas Ruin in the prologue of ''Literature/MidnightTides''. [[spoiler:Fear Sengar]] ''tries'' to stab Silchas Ruin in the back, and he is a descendant of one of Scabandari's followers. He is then however in turn killed from behind with a garotte by [[ProfessionalKiller Clip]], who is a descendant of one of Silchas Ruin's followers from the time the first backstabbing happened.
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* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The Onyx Wizards of the Andara can't seem to agree on anything, detaining Silchas Ruin's party unneccessarily until he pulls rank and tell them where to stuff it. Decision speed isn't helped by them singing their arguments, in which they can't even agree on the tempo and -- as far as Udinaas is concerned -- they're probably arguing about the length of their robes, anyway.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: The Refugium is a small chunk of primeval tundra that's been squirreled away from any outside influence hundreds of thousands of years ago. It is populated by the last remnants of living, flesh-and-bone Imass and can be reached from the the outside, but only by knowing where it is or by first traversing the icy Jaghut Realm of Death. Rud Elalle, who grew up among the Imass of the Refugium, is at first eager to see more of the outside world, [[spoiler:but changes his mind quickly when he finds out its existence is at risk and becomes just as eager to die in the Refugium's defense]].
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* PrecisionFStrike: Udinaas, though wordy, rarely cusses directly, which makes the one he delivers to Clip stand out:
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--> '''Clip:''' 'You understand too much. Did you hear me, Udinaas?'\\
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* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Udinaas spends the majority of ''Reaper's Gale'' discussing slavery at length. As a baseline, he abhors slavery in all its guises, but also argues that being a slave was the best thing to have happened to him. He starts out as [[HappinessInSlavery reasonably content with his lot]], but then, his 'freedom' prior to being enslaved consisted of indentured servitude on a galley to repay a family debt, while being a slave of the Tiste Edur meant enough food and shelter. Nonetheless, he goes as far as to argue that he hates all forms of inequality and slavery so much that by virtue of his very nature he would've felt compelled to rebel if he had not been kept busy scraping fish all day and that this would have affected way more people negatively than just him. When he finally ends up free and without debt, he reacts very testily to anything reminding him of his former situation and goes as far as comparing Seren Pedac's spying on his dreams to rape, assuming she was only willing to disregard his privacy ''because'' he used to be a slave and remains so in her subconsciousness.
