Sorrit

An Eleint

Another enormous chamber, as if the heart of the keep had ben carved out. A massive cruciform of bound, black wood filled the cavern, and on it was impaled a dragon. Long dead, once frozen but now rotting. An iron spike as thick around as Mappo's torso had been driven into the dragon's throat, just above the breast bones. Aquamarine blood had seeped down from the wound and still dripped heavy and turgid onto the stone floor in slow, steady, fist-sized drops.

"I know this dragon," Icarium said again. "Sorrit. Its aspect was Serc. The warren of the sky." He lifted both hands to his face. "Dead. Sorrit has been slain.." (BH UKTpb. p.134)

'This leaves naught but Osserc,' Mappo said. 'And should he fall, the warren of Serc shall possess no ruler.' (BH UKTpb, p.193)

Mappo : 'Otataral. She was bound by otataral. Yet, she was Elder - she should have been able to defeat that eager entropy. I do not understand this..' (BH UKT pb, p.193)

Mappo and Icarium's speculation on the slaying of Sorrit :

“The K’Chain Che’Malle did not kill Sorrit,” Icarium said. “They knew nothing of it.”

“Yet this creature here was frozen, so it must have been encompassed in the Jaghut’s ritual of Omtose Phellack — how could the K’Chain Che’Malle not have known of this? This must have, even if they themselves did not slay Sorrit.”

“No, they are innocent, Mappo. I am certain of it.”

“Then … how?”

“The cruciform, it is Blackwood. From the realm of the Tiste Edur. From the Shadow Realm, Mappo. In that realm, as you know, things can be in two places at once, or begin in but one yet find itself eventually manifesting in another. Shadow wanders, and respects no borders.”

“Ah, then … this … was trapped here, drawn from Shadow —”

“Snared by the Jaghut’s ice magic — yet the spilled blood, and perhaps the Otataral, proved too fierce for Omtose Phellack, thus shattering the Jaghut’s enchantment.”

“Sorrit was murdered in the Shadow Realm. Yes. Now the pattern, Icarium, grows that much clearer.”

Icarium fixed bright, fevered eyes upon the Trell. “Is it? You would blame the Tiste Edur?”

“Who else holds such command of Shadow? Not the Malazan pretender who now sits on the throne!” (BH UKTpb, p.194)