Summary
Steven Erikson: The Crippled God I-II
After the fatal battle in the Wastes, the surviving Kostolovs led by Supreme Commander Tavore and their allies continue their march towards the Kolans, intent on confronting the Forkrull Aseil, their master Acrast Corvalein and their plan to purify the world, if they don't first rebel and disintegrate themselves.
Meanwhile, in the long-lost Karkanas, on the world of Kurald Galein, an army of Trembling and Leterian refugees wait for the Tiste Liosans to break through Lightfall to the First Shore - they can't win that battle, but will they still lay down their lives for an empty city and a subjectless queen? Or is it something else?
Eizat, who closes the door to Starvald Demelain, dies, and this means that the Elaines can finally penetrate the world. The ancient gods have their own agendas, and most of them have taken sides. If any of them get their hands on Korabas, a cataclysm of indescribable proportions will ensue.
In every world there must come a time when choice is no longer possible - a moment when the soul is stripped bare and every way out becomes unavailable. And when faced with that last bitter truth, when the compassion of the virtues has been brought to its knees, what remains to be done? You can only rely on your own defiance and challenge the gods...
It was always clear that the final showdown would come, but no one could have guessed the true, terrifying scale of what would happen - in the final, spectacular chapter of Erickson's extraordinary Malachite Book of the Fallen, a multi-layered tale of magic and war, loyalty and betrayal.
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