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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyOne" data-source="post: 80869" data-attributes="member: 858">To give you a sense of how complex a tale it is, I'll try to summarize the plot as succinctly as I can: After the decision of Empress Laseen to outlaw the elite Bridgeburners and the whole of the 9th Army on the Genabackis campaign, Kalam, Fiddler and Sorry (now going by the name of Apsalar) of the Bridgeburners, and the streetwise Crokus from Darujhistan, have journeyed from the continent of Genabackis to the Seven Cities with a secret mission. Kalam, once a member of the Claw, the Empire's loyal assassins, has sworn to kill the evil Laseen, Empress of the Malazan Empire. Kalam and his friends, however, soon realize they've just wandered into a religious uprising of Seven Cities natives, a jihad-like ethnic purge known as the Whirlwind. When it hits, Malazan citizens are targets for torture and murder. Coltaine, military governor of Hissar, one of the Seven Cities, takes it in hand to escort an ever-growing number of Malazan citizens and nobles to Aren, the only city on the continent still under the Empire's control. Trouble is, it's several hundred miles away, across deserts, across rivers, across ghost-haunted wastelands. Coltaine is trying to move 45,000 refugees all that way, with what's left of the Empire's 7th Army and a few clans of his own Wickan horse-warriors, while a huge army of Whirlwind fanatics -- including the rebel Malazan armies that have joined the cause -- harry and pick at them all the way, standing for pitched battles whenever Coltaine is in a particularly vulnerable position (such as attempting to ford a tricky river).</blockquote>

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