What I really want to know is what bargain Paran struck with Hood Just another corpse, just another staring face.вЂ™ I must open this gate.вЂ™Д«ut the god had turned away, and Paran barely heard HoodвЂ™s reply: вЂNot from this side.вЂ™ (ie he has to let Heboric out from the other side)ДЄnd to answer DuffyвЂ™s earlier question вЂ“ itвЂ™s Quick Ben who is hiding in the gate and listening in Hood has a solution вЂ“ send Heboric Ghost hands back from the realm of death to ascend as Shield Anvil. Paran tries to call up Mael but misses and instead gets Hood. End of this part of the world is imminent. It looks like some of those have hit the moon and smashed bits are reigning down. In HoC Heboric sees a great many jade statues falling into the Malazan universe from a world sized portal. The people still tell tales of the countless fires that fell from the sky, in the bringing down of the Crippled God.вЂ™

We see now how Koreli вЂ“ the twin continent to KallorвЂ™s realm (Jacuruku) was engulfed in a similar cataclysm when the Crippled god was initially called down вЂ“ it appears the fallout has not finished yet These too are filled with the souls from the Crippled godвЂ™s world looking for their god. Ok вЂ“ HereвЂ™s my brief overiew of whatвЂ™s happened this chapter.Д¬hunks of Jade like the Jade statues are falling. The information that will be revealed is really cool, and I can't understand what's gained by keeping it secret. This is hiding stuff on top of the stuff you are hiding, and I just don't see the point. But of course, we don't know who, or why, or why we should care. And to compound the problem, he points out that one of the corpses stands up and takes notice at this revelation. Sometimes he does this because the characters elide information that they both know, and the reader is left a few paces behind. But I can't stand Erikson withholding crucial information from the reader in a conversation that is placed squarely before us. I have little clue what's involved in the shitstorm Paran is trying to circumvent. It's not like these books are terribly easy to follow in the first place. Paran asks: What do you really want? Hood answers Paran, but Erikson deliberately hides it from the reader. He talks with Hood himself, and they bargain in a conversation that is partially conveyed to us. Paran is trying to contact Mael (and we will forget for now what sort of connection there might be between the ELDER god of the sea and the Master of the DECK), but he lands in front of Hood's gate. I'm not finished with this chapter yet, but i have to complain about one of Erikson's most annoying habits.

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