Kimloc
A Tano (Tanno?)Spiritwalker
'...an old man dressed in a wrinkled orange robe. The deep, rich ochre of his skin was set off by a shock of white hair...amber eyes...' (DG, UK MMPB, p.89-90)
Fiddler: 'Kimloc claimed he could destroy the Malazan armies. Utterly. Yet he capitulated and now his name is legendary for empty threats.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.94)
Famous Quotes
'Power has voice, and that voice is the Song of the Tanno Spiritwalker.'
(HoC, UK Trade, p.483)
A Book of Prophecy opens the door. You need a second book to close it.
Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc
(BH)
There is something profoundly cynical, my friends,
to the notion of paradise after death. The lure is
evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not
accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by
extension, one need do nothing about it. To strive
for change, for true goodness in this mortal world,
one must acknowledge and accept, within one’s own
soul, that this mortal reality has purpose in itself,
that its greatest value is not for us, but for our
children and their children. To view life as but a
quick passage along a foul, tortured path -- made
foul and tortured by our own indifference -- is to
excuse all manner of misery and depravity, and to
exact cruel punishment upon the innocent lives
to come.
I defy this notion of paradise beyond
the gates of bone. If the soul truly survives the
passage, then it behooves us -- each of us, my
friends -- to nurture a faith in similitude: what
awaits us is a reflection of what we leave behind,
and in the squandering of our mortal existence,
we surrendered the opportunity to learn the
ways of goodness, the practice of sympathy,
empathy, compassion and healing -- all passed by
in our rush to arrive at a place of glory and beauty,
a place we did not earn, and most certainly do not
deserve.
The Apocryphal
Teachings of Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc
The Decade in Ehrlitan
(BH)