"Kolanse has been usurped,"  said Tavore.  "not in the name of the Crippled God, but in the name of justice.  Justice of a most terrible kind."

Quick Ben said,  "Ahkrast Korvalain."

Sinn jumped as if stung, then huddled down once more.

"I'm sorry, what?"

"An Elder Warren, Fist Keneb,"  said the Adjunct,  "of the Forkrul Assail."

Brys leaned back, regarded the tall woman for a moment, and then he said, "There was a god once … I know its name but that isn't particularly relevant now.  What is relevant is where it dwelt: in the lands we now called the Wastelands.  It lived there and it died there.  Its life was stolen from it by a force, a power coming from the K'Chain Che'Malle – a civilization, by the way, that I'd never heard of, but in that god's memories there is the name itself and scattered … images."  He shook his head, and after a moment continued,  "It may be that this power –" and he glanced over at Aranict for a moment – "is one of these warrens you Malazans have brought to us.  Or it could have been a ritual of some sort.  Its name was Ahkrast Korvalain.  What it did, Captain, was steal the lifeforce of the land itself.  In fact, it may well have created the Wastelands, and in so doing it killed the spirits and gods dwelling there, and with them, their worshipers."(DoD)