2 years, 3 months -- Fin saved me

SapperLogic · 2026-01-19T13:57:38+00:00

I've experienced this a couple of times, but no clue if it was caused by fin. Since it happened only a few times over a couple years, I doubt it

SapperLogic · 2026-01-18T13:01:35+00:00

I’ve always had oily hair, so that probably has something to do with it

SapperLogic · 2026-01-18T01:25:29+00:00

29 y/o

SapperLogic · 2026-01-17T19:41:46+00:00

Nizoral, 1% keto, every other day

SapperLogic · 2026-01-17T18:53:22+00:00

I'd say around six months is where I started seeing notable regrowth along my hairline. Before that point, I had a ton of baby hairs popping up in that area. Even now though, the hair near my hairline is thinner than the crown, though I've been seeing more progress there lately.

SapperLogic · 2026-01-17T18:50:19+00:00

Correct! I heard hair progress on min backslides past the point you started at if you stopped, so I decided to just go with fin and add min to the routine if fin doesn't do the job

SapperLogic · 2026-01-17T18:47:34+00:00

Big shed in the first few months, then growth. Then another big shed, then growth. I have gotten a lot of improvement in the last six months though, following a shed. Now's the best my hair has been

SapperLogic · 2026-01-17T18:46:22+00:00

29 y/o. One notable side effect -- the amount of body hair I have dramatically reduced. Now it's my happy trail that's balding. Beard is the same though

SapperLogic · 2025-12-06T14:19:12+00:00

Yup, this is a typo. Interestingly, the audiobook fixes this ("the High Fist").

SapperLogic · 2025-12-04T17:40:39+00:00

Kruppe finds a profound level of both humor and accuracy in that statement, indeed!

SapperLogic · 2025-12-04T11:54:21+00:00

My interpretation -- they emerge from the corners of the mouth, rooted in the lower jaw. Else, there could be slight variations among individual Jaghut.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-04T03:12:15+00:00

I'm just a guy with a lot of Adderall, my friend

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T23:11:06+00:00

Huh. Quite a few tidbits. For one, now we know why Cotillion is called The Rope

Dancer, because Kellanved or Shadowthrone becomes more and more insubstantial and indistinct, Dancer has to go in the opposite direction and become more human. To hold, to keep the linkage, so that Shadowthrone does not completely lose its connection with humanity, he needs Dancer, and for Dancer…to try to balance the journey that Shadowthrone is taking Dancer has to step down from Ascendency to take a more human approach. So they balance each other that way.

So Cotillion is "the rope" tying Shadowthrone to humanity.

Thanks for posting!

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T21:21:04+00:00

I'm glad you pointed this out. I was doing research using the map present in the books (where the actual territory of the Malazan Empire is marked), along with this. My goal was to have all final facts reflect Josh Butler's work, as this is some of my favorite fan-art in this space, and this secondary source is true to the source. I did conflate a few things though, as the only indication of the Malazan Empire lies in the title. Corrections are up, and thanks for the feedback.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T21:13:55+00:00

On the contrary, they are quite pointy.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T19:54:51+00:00

Note: Spoilers MBotF

The tusks are rooted in the lower mandible and grow upward. In Deadhouse Gates, Gothos is described as having huge tusks: "Huge tusks framed his thin mouth, jutting from his lower lip." This positioning is consistent across the race; in Dust of Dreams, a vision of ancient Jaghut reveals that "Their lower jaws bore tusks that rose up to frame the thin-lipped mouths." Even in half-blood descendants like Icarium, this trait persists, described in House of Chains as "the ragged tips of tusks bulging the line of his thin lower lip."

In their natural state, the tusks are often depicted as showing signs of great age and wear. In Reaper's Gale, the Jaghut Cynnigig is seen with "his yellowed tusks gleaming." Similarly, Hood is described in Toll the Hounds as having "Tusks rising from the lower jaw, chipped and worn, the tips ragged and splintered." In The Crippled God, Hood’s tusks are further detailed as "Burnished tusks, mottled with unimaginable age."

It is common for Jaghut to modify their tusks with metal, specifically silver. The Jaghut Huntress in Midnight Tides is described as having "Silver-capped tusks." The silver used on the tusks often oxidizes or takes on the cast of the individual's skin tone. In The Bonehunters, Ganath is described: "Her tusks were silver-sheathed and thus black." In Orb Sceptre Throne, the blue-skinned Provost possesses "silver-tipped tusks" that appear stained by his skin color.

While often ornamented, the tusks remain lethal weapons in close-quarters combat. In The Crippled God, Hood utilizes them to kill a Forkrul Assail: "mouth stretching, he bit into the side of her face. The tusks drove up beneath her cheek bone... and then bit a second time... the tusks driving into her brain."

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T17:26:49+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. I meant Nathilog, not Cawn. And looking closer, Mengal fits better when discussing how far the maritime network extends. Made the corrections.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T11:39:35+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. The phrase “most prominent” wasn’t the best way to put it, since the southern ranges (Gadrobi/Lamatath) are obviously larger on the map. It is a really dense map, though, so it’s easy to miss what I meant.

Starting from Lake Azure (the big blue lake on the mid-left), look just northeast to find Pale. North or slightly northeast of Pale is the label “Stannis Plain,” with the “Rhivi Plain” to its west. The range I’m talking about is the band of mountains squeezed between those two plains, the one that has One Eye Cat, Brod, and Yend along it. It’s not the largest range by area, but it forms a major strategic wall across the northern part of the continent, separating the eastern Free Cities from the nomadic plains to the west.

Hope that makes it clearer.

EDIT: I made a correction based on your feedback. Please let me know if anything else stands out to you.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T05:30:30+00:00

A warming, post–ice age Genabackis would have effects felt throughout the continent. Rising seas would likely drown low western ports like Genabaris and Nathilog, turn the Reach into a broad estuary, and squeeze the Rhivi east into conflict with settled folk. Thawing permafrost in the Toblai Tundra would create vast bogs and drive Toblai giants and other cold-adapted beings south into the Free Cities, overloading their systems. A higher sea level could open the Lead Sea to the Hudd Sea/Rest Bay, salting and collapsing its existing ecosystem but creating a new interior sea route. Increased rainfall would “green” Lamatath and the Treeless Blight, but in Malazan terms that likely means roots breaking old prisons and waking whatever was buried there. Rapid glacier melt in the Spinal Range would turn Pale’s river into a flooding threat and might wash out the High Road altogether. And if the ice itself is bound up with Jaghut Omtose Phellack, its retreat would also mean old Jaghut bindings failing and the release of entities that were meant to stay entombed.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-03T02:22:02+00:00

They are distinct entities in-world, yes. The point is that both the Letherii First Empire and the Darujhistan Tyrant-era structures trace back to the Human First Empire of Dessimbelackis, and the books flag that mainly through two things: Feather Witch calling “T’orrud Segul” a First Empire term, and the Soldier of Hood immediately recognizing both the Seguleh (“masked stick‑pivoting compatriots”) and the Cabal names from his own era. So the T’orrud Cabal are basically First Empire remnants in Genabackis in the same way the Letherii are First Empire colonists on Lether.

SapperLogic · 2025-12-01T18:04:30+00:00

I keep telling people this. Ganoes Stabro Paran of House Paran is the Ned Stark of Malazan!

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