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)

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)