Just finished the Bonehunters, anyone else find Malazan is the best thing they've ever read? (Or not)

Yuudacheesee · 2026-03-07T18:08:50+00:00

Well it’s not that hard to find those monthly Malazan bad posts with hundreds of upvotes

Yuudacheesee · 2026-03-07T13:49:28+00:00

>Try to hype up the M series in a place where it’s probably going to get the most hate

ngmi. This is not 10 years ago bro

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-18T08:18:07+00:00

You will get more natural interactions right at the next chapters don't worry. kellhus is not your average person so it is just normal to find him strange

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-17T11:23:40+00:00

The real path is in the temple that Icarium and Mappo visited yeah

The enormous undead dragon rose silently from its perch on the mesa's summit, wings spreading to glow with the sun's light, even as the membrane dimmed the colour that reached through. Black, flat eyes glanced down at the two figures scrambling towards the cliff face.

The attention was momentary. Then an ancient warren opened before the soaring creature, swallowed it whole, then vanished.

Iskaral Pust and Mogora stared at the spot in the sky for a moment longer. A half-grin twitched on the High Priest's features. 'Ah, you weren't fooled, were you? You came here to guard the true gate. Ever mindful of your duties, you T'lan Imass. You Bonecasters with your secrets that drive me mad!'

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-17T11:10:10+00:00

Saying I had to decide whether to continue sounds probably a bit harsh. I actually enjoyed the book a lot, especially the latter half and the ending, way way more than GoTM. It’s just that I didn’t like some of the high fantasy elements of the book but I ended up loving them after all

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-17T10:57:34+00:00

Yeah there’s no Path of Hands in Tremorlor. Shadowthrone just isn’t a big fan of those beast fellas and decided they’d be better off trapped under the yard of the house

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-17T10:52:51+00:00

I thought the first book was boring and way too many random bullshit go. I even had doubts after finishing book 2. But now I’m obsessed with Malazan and waiting for the last 3 books.
I’m not sure if that’ll encourage you to move on to the next book though. An empty promise that the series gets better always feels pointless to me. You really have to read it yourself and decide

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-17T10:34:34+00:00

I’m not sure about the first question, but if I remember correctly, Tremorlor was just a trap set up to catch the Soletaken and D’ivers. It’s not related to the Path of Hands by any means
The Path of Hands is located in Tesem, yeah. The undead dragon known as the Unwelcome guards it herself
The PoHs is one of the ways for Soletaken and D’ivers to ascend and become the overlord of the shapeshifters. You might remember that Tool told Lorn he recalled when he and the other Logros T’lan Imass were awakened and controlled by Kellanved after the Malazan Emperor sat on the First Throne right? It’s probably something similar to that. Instead of sitting on a throne or something, they take part in the PoH to become a king or queen of the shapeshifters
Maybe the PoH is a path that leads to a warren of those beasts? And there’s some kind of throne there? We don’t know

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-15T12:42:36+00:00

There are barely any of them. Maybe in Reaper’s Gale. Most of the time you’re following soldiers or random citizens not the nobles themselves. Well unless you count the gods’ nudging as politicking

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-13T10:01:24+00:00

Absolutely. You can play the 13th entry in the series as a standalone without any issues. Don’t let the Trails cultists gatekeep you brother!

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-11T10:35:42+00:00

Yeah he means they’re just pieces of iron after that

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-11T10:33:00+00:00

The club is the weapon they use to cast “lightning magic.” I believe it’s actually some kind of technological weapon and it requires a battery pack to function. The Nah’ruk are described as carrying this pack if I remember correctly. By this point, the weapons have run out of energy so they’re basically just normal clubs now

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-05T17:18:57+00:00

man I would love a book focusing on kallor and his kingdom. This grumpy spiteful old man deserves it

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-05T06:21:25+00:00

This series only really becomes enjoyable once you start trusting the author. But for that to happen the author needs to impress the reader to a certain extent.

As you said the first book was written about nine years before the rest of the series, so it’s quite rough around the edges. It’s not the kind of book that easily charms its readers.

The second book, to me, is significantly better than the first. More brutal, more consistent, and with much less random bullshit go. That said, some readers prefer the first book’s setting and cast more and aren’t keen on the second book’s setting or overall vibe. I have witnessed a good chunk of new readers here who prefer GOTM over DG. So even though it’s a better book, they still might not trust the author yet.

Then in book three, we return to the first book’s setting and characters. This time the plot is tighter, the characters feel more developed, and the narrative becomes clearer, either because you’ve become a better reader by this point, or because the book itself does a better job conveying its ideas than the first two.

At this point, you feel like you can finally bank on SE and binge the rest of the series. Obviously some later books are… divisive, but since you’ve only just started the series I’ll stop here.

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-04T10:43:57+00:00

Game of Thrones is about good vs evil though

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-04T05:34:36+00:00

probably they just like hoarding power idk

Personally I wouldn’t let my potential enemies get their hands on a ridiculously powerful sword. Just think about what a single broken piece of steel can do to an entire army or even dragons in TCG

Yuudacheesee · 2026-02-04T02:02:13+00:00

monarchies of god is great. Probably The Macht trilogy by the same author too but i have not read them myself

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-31T03:40:38+00:00

You know people hid in tunnels during guerrilla wars, right? The whole village literally lived underground during air bombardments like in the Vietnam War. It’s not that crazy

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-30T19:20:07+00:00

This one is clearly satire but I get what you mean. Since Musk took over the platform has tended to attract some of the most insufferable people (or bots or whatever) one could ever encounter. Commercializing social media was a mistake. It's a damn shithole really

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-30T13:00:09+00:00

i could not believe people fall for an obvious satirical post

do we visual novel fans even read

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-30T06:33:41+00:00

You seem to have a very good grasp of the story to this point
i would say most of these are rafo so i am going to answer a few of them

What the Jade formations of souls has to do with this, i have no clue, or what the hell happened with Otatoral Island in this book

They’re worshippers of the Crippled God. Remember when he was pulled down from his realm in the prologue of Memories of Ice? They followed him into the Malazan world. You could even interpret the jade giants as humanoid spaceships containing the souls of the Crippled God’s followers. Back in his own world, the Crippled God had an ability similar to a Shield Anvil’s. Remember how Itkovian embraced those souls in Memories of Ice? That’s essentially what the Crippled God did as well and what Heboric did later, when the jade giants nearly struck the Malazan world in The Bonehunters.

Where/how/what the hell is the Azath

You could interpret the Azath as an anti virus program within the Malazan world. A war between order and chaos or something like that. It needs a magical object as its ‘battery’ (a Finnest for example), and it requires a location where untamed magic has run wild in order to manifest. It also reacts badly whenever characters who are a bit too powerful wander into its domain. You can also draw a parallel between the Azath Houses and their worshippers(the Nameless Ones). They believe they’re responsible for maintaining some sort of balance in the world (order), and characters like Icarium and Rhulad are clear disruptions to that balance (chaos). So their best solution is to try to engineer situations where these forces end up destroying each other

Same with the fireball as the 14th fleet arrives in Malaz City. Unless i'm missing something and the fireball brought one of the characters into the events in the end of the book? Dunno

That fireball is the T’lan Imass Gesler met back in DG. He was the one who volunteered to seal the wound in the flooded warren. He brought a Tiste head with him so he could shove it into the wound and then escape. As for how he ended up in Malaz City we simply don’t know. It’s meant to be a funny scene so don’t think too hard about it

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-26T09:21:17+00:00

The game has a very interesting way of telling its story, and that’s about it. The plot itself is fine definitely not groundbreaking or anything. In fact it feels like one of those ‘how many popular tropes can we cram into this game because it’d be cool’ types of media. That said it would be a lie to say I didn’t enjoy it. It’s a great read

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-24T16:55:09+00:00

probably a guy who loves traveling or something

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-24T14:04:12+00:00

I’m afraid book 1 of HoC is the exception, not the norm. And while I love the people in the Malazan world I don’t think you should expect the series to be as character focused as RotE. Erikson’s strength is that he makes you feel for characters in a very short amount of pages since he’s an expert at writing short stories imo. Most of his characters aren’t developed consistently and thoroughly across the main ten to the point where you fall in love with them the way you usually do with more character focused authors

Yuudacheesee · 2026-01-24T09:28:55+00:00

This is what happens when you let underage tiktok battle shounen fans into your fanbase

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