Outrider Hurlochel

A name and character used by Tayschrenn in Memories of Ice, but also a real person.

He was attached to Dujek One-Arm's Host in Bonehunters - now in  Paran's Host.

Paran : A nod.  “Captain Ganoes Paran.  I don’t forget faces or names, sir, but we’d heard you were --”

           “Aye, and that’s how it stays.  Your name?”

           “Hurlochel.”

           “Now I remember.  You acted as chronicler on occasion, didn’t you?”

                A shrug.  “I keep an account of things, yes sir.  (BH)

Paran : "Why aren’t you still with Caladan Brood on Genabackis?”

 “The alliance broke up, sir, not long after the Tiste Andii settled in Black Coral.   Rhivi back to the plains, the Barghast back to their hills.  The Crimson Guard, who were up north, just vanished -- no-one knows where they went.  When Onearm shipped out, well, seemed like they were headed somewhere interesting.” (BH)

Hurlochel's knowledge of Felisin's death

As Hurlochel led his horse alongside Mathok, back up towards the desert warriors on the ridge, the Outrider glanced over at the new Fist.  “Sir, when you spoke of Sha’ik Reborn, you said something … about barely recognizing her….”

“I did.  She was one of Sha’ik’s adopted daughters, in Raraku.  Of course, as Leoman and I well knew, even that one was … not as she seemed.  Oh, chosen by the Whirlwind Goddess, well enough, but she was not a child of the desert.”

“She wasn’t?”

 “No, she was Malazan.”

  “What?”

   The commander’s companion grunted and spat.  “Mezla, yes.  And the Adjunct never knew -- or so we heard.  She cut down a helmed, armored woman.  And then walked away.  The corpse then vanished.  A Mezla killing a Mezla -- oh how the gods must have laughed….”

“Or,”  said Hurlochel in a low voice,  “wept.”  He thought to ask more questions regarding this new Sha’ik Reborn, but a succession of tragic images, variants on that fated duel at Raraku, before the seas rose from the desert, raced through his mind.  And so he rode in silence up the slope, beside the warriors, and before long was thoroughly consumed with the necessities of reorganizing Mathok’s horse-warriors. 

 So preoccupied, he never reported his conversation to the High Fist (Paran) (BH

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Few can see

the dark hand

holding aloft

the splinter, or

the notched chains

fated to be heard

before death’s rattle,

but hark the wheel

of minions and victims

who moan the

lord’s name

in the dark heart

of Moon’s Spawn . . .

Silverfox

Outrider Hurlochel,

6th Army

(GotM, UK Trade, p.378)

Onearm’s Host bled from countless wounds. An

endless campaign, successive defeats followed by

even costlier victories. But of all the wounds

borne by the army of Dujek Onearm, those to

its soul were the gravest . . .

Silverfox

Outrider Hurlochel

(MoI, UK Trade, p.42)

Kallor said: ‘I walked this land when the T’lan Imass

were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred

thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath

across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones.

Do you grasp the meaning of this?’

‘Yes,’ said Caladan Brood, ‘you never learn.’

Conversations of War

(Second in Command Kallor speaking with Warlord Caladan Brood), recorded by Outrider Hurlochel, 6th Army

(GotM, UK Trade, p.237)