Forge of the High Mage

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Forge of the High Mage

Forge of the High Mage

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If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. While I love maps and often scoured the map at the beginning as to where PoVs are are are referring to I laughed when I found the much more detailed map at the end of the book.

Good characterisation, good pacing and a rip roaring tale that adds to the beauty/context of the Malazan world. It will make you laugh, cry, leave you in awe, and there are so many characters for you to fall in love with and hate with a vengeance. Whereas Dancer's Lament only featured three point-of-view perspectives, Forge of the High Mage has approximately a dozen. This series is a prequel to the events of Erikson‘s Malazan Book of the Fallen and Esslemont’s own Novels of the Malazan Empire, with this entry seeing Kellanved (The Emperor), Dancer (Master Assassin), Dassem Ultor (The Sword), Tayschrenn (High Mage) and their armies advancing into Falar. it’s also still just so much fun to see how they interact with each other and that’s actually becoming increasingly more fun which i didn’t think was possible.When reading Forge of the High Mage, like previous entries in this series, it is easier to keep track of the people, places, and the plot. Granted, Deadhouse Landing has started the Tay-arc and already portrayed him as something of a socially inept recluse. I didn’t expect this volume to be so Tayschrenn centric, but it does such a fantastic job revealing the underpinnings of this enigmatic man.

it also does a good job of showing how dark imperialism is, not just in a grander sense but also how ‘good’ people like dujek will allow awful people like hairlock to serve because it helps the ‘empire’. Since the main Malazan armies are otherwise engaged in Quon Tali, a collection of orphaned units and broken squads has been brought together under Fist Dujek - himself recovering from the loss of an arm - to fight this new campaign.Still crazy as a coconut, but much less frustrating because now, all his associates are aware of his unlimited potential, his infinite cunning and utter unpredictability. The cataclysmic ending is a tad contrived, but the various storylines sync well and everything Malazan and Crimson is in fine form. The storyline was good and has advanced the Malazan Empire as well as individuals such as mainly Tayschren (and of course MR).



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