Dessembrae
Name: Dessembrae, Lord of Tears
Pseudonyms: Lord of Tragedy
Race: human, Dal Honese
Appearance: Dusky skinned, grey-shot black curled hair cut short, though his eyes were a a deep blue. His features were even though crisscrossed with scars.
Warren: unknown
Further info: once Dassem Ultor, former Knight of Hood
Steven Erikson: Dessembrae -- the cult sees their god as male, but his grief as female.(Q and A with malazanempire No 1 (2003))
Purportedly killed at the siege of Y'ghatan.
Suspected to be Traveller
'Dessembrae. The Cult of Dassem.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.452)
Dessembrae knows the sorrows
in our souls.
He walks at the side of each mortal
a vessel of regret on the fires
of vengeance.
Dessembrae knows the sorrows
and would now share them with us all.
The Lord of Tragedy
Holy Book prayer
(Canon of Kassal)
(GotM, UK Trade, p.358)
