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* RhymingList: The Dramatis Personae, briefly:
--> '''Kallor,''' a challenger
--> '''Lady Envy,''' a bystander
--> '''Kallor,''' a challenger
--> '''Lady Envy,''' a bystander
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** Within Dragnipur itself, a GambitPileup of it's own is brewing. Draconus is trying to enlist the strongest captives within the sword in an attempt of a last stand against the Legions of Chaos, while the mad artist Kadaspala is trying to bring a Child God to life via a millennia old, intricate tattoo on all the carriages' inhabitants. Meanwhile, the Goddess of Thieves Apsal'ara is doing her best to find a way out of her captivity.
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** Within Dragnipur itself, a GambitPileup of it's its own is brewing. Draconus is trying to enlist the strongest captives within the sword in an attempt of a last stand against the Legions of Chaos, while the mad artist Kadaspala is trying to bring a Child God to life via a millennia old, intricate tattoo on all the carriages' inhabitants. Meanwhile, the Goddess of Thieves Apsal'ara is doing her best to find a way out of her captivity.
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The retired Bridgeburners who now own K'rul's Bar are targeted by the Assassin's Guild and find themselves fighting for their lives once more.
Darujhistan's Cabal of Mages, however, prepares for a much more pressing battle: vast powers are bound for the City of Blue Fire and their convergence is threatening to tear everything apart.
Darujhistan's Cabal of Mages, however, prepares for a much more pressing battle: vast powers are bound for the City of Blue Fire and their convergence is threatening to tear everything apart.
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The retired Bridgeburners who now own K'rul's Bar are targeted by the Assassin's Guild and find themselves fighting for their lives once more.
more. Darujhistan's Cabal of Mages, however, prepares for a much more pressing battle: vast powers are bound for the City of Blue Fire and their convergence is threatening to tear everything apart.
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* BiTheWay: Scillara. It's not even hinted at until ''Toll the Hounds'', especially considering her being a former whore and her affair with Cutter, and she gets a designated (male) love interest, [[spoiler: namely Barathol Mekhar]], soon afterwards, but she seems to have enjoyed her encounter with Blend.
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* TarotTroubles: Tiserra, Torvald Nom's wife, is an adept at reading the Deck of Dragons. She even has two additional cards not found anywhere else: ''The City'' and ''The Tyrant''. Their inclusion alone is enough to set the mood.
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* TarotTroubles: Tiserra, Torvald Nom's wife, is an adept at reading the Deck of Dragons. She even has two additional cards not found anywhere else: ''The ''the City'' and ''The ''the Tyrant''. Their inclusion alone is enough to set the mood.
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* RetiredBadass: ''Toll the Hounds'' reintroduces the reader to [[EliteArmy the Bridgeburners]], who had previously retired to run a bar in Darujhistan at the end of the third book, ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce''. For some reason, someone has contracted the Assassins' Guild to kill them all and Picker & Co. have to spring into action in order to not only save themselves but to also find out who is behind the contract.
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* MadnessMantra: MadArtist Kadaspala manages to combine TalkativeLoon and this. It's not that he makes no sense, he just takes ages to get to the point as he turns almost anything he says into a Madness Mantra that first had to pass through an insanity filter.
--> 'But you but you but you are the knot the knot. Snapping tight! No one gets away. No one gets away. No one gets away. Hold still hold still and hold still until he awakens and he will awaken and so he will. Awaken. My child. The word, you see, the word is the word is the word. The word is ''kill''.'
--> 'But you but you but you are the knot the knot. Snapping tight! No one gets away. No one gets away. No one gets away. Hold still hold still and hold still until he awakens and he will awaken and so he will. Awaken. My child. The word, you see, the word is the word is the word. The word is ''kill''.'
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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Anomander Rake]] sacrifices himself to convince the goddess of his people to return by [[spoiler:allowing himself to be killed by his own sword so that his spirit enters the PocketDimension inside, where Mother Dark is trapped]].
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* HeroicSacrifice:
** Anomander Rake [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to get Mother Dark to return to her people.]] This is the equivalent of a religious leader sacrificing himself to bring back a god who abandoned its people.
** Related to the above: Spinnock breaks down injured and exhausted when he feels [[spoiler:Rake's death]] after stalling Kallor for a whole night for him. [[spoiler:Averted in that Korlat sweeps in with a healing draught to tide him over until he can recuperate at home.]]
** Anomander Rake [[spoiler:sacrifices himself to get Mother Dark to return to her people.]] This is the equivalent of a religious leader sacrificing himself to bring back a god who abandoned its people.
** Related to the above: Spinnock breaks down injured and exhausted when he feels [[spoiler:Rake's death]] after stalling Kallor for a whole night for him. [[spoiler:Averted in that Korlat sweeps in with a healing draught to tide him over until he can recuperate at home.]]
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* GodOfEvil: The Dying God, aka [[spoiler:Bellurdan Skullcrusher]], is the trope played straight, [[TheCorruption corrupting]] people with his toxic blood into becoming his [[ReligionOfEvil followers.]] Although due to being both a new god and a dying one, he doesn't have much power outside his own temple or through his followers.
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* {{Fingore}}: Gaz lost all of his fingers other than the thumbs in a fishing net accident. All he's left with are knuckled clubs.
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* {{Fingore}}: Gaz There is a serial killer roaming the city of Darujhistan whose weapon the guards cannot figure out. It turns out its Gaz, who has lost all of his fingers other than the thumbs in a fishing net accident. All he's left with are knuckled accident and uses his hands as clubs.
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* CavalryOfTheDead: Everyone who ever died is marched out of the Warren of Death and into the Warren within Dragnipur right when the forces of Chaos are about to devour those few still dragging the wagon within. The Army of the Dead [[BigDamnHeroes swoops in and closes with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day]].
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* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Cutter's reason for returning to Darujhistan from continents away. Tragically deconstructed, though, Cutter has to learn that he was mostly blinded by nostalgia and that the changed so much he can hardly call Darujhistan home anymore.
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* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: Cutter's reason for returning to Darujhistan from continents away. Tragically deconstructed, though, Cutter has to learn that he was mostly blinded by nostalgia and that the he himself has changed so much he can hardly call Darujhistan home anymore.
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In Black Coral a brutal conflict is brewing. Outside the city gates a new cult is worshipping the ''Redeemer'' -- a very young deity devoted to salvation. But the Redeemer's temple is as yet unbuilt and it's worshippers have no means to defend against the Dying God's rival cult creeping up from the south, whose ambitions are as sinister as they are deadly.
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In Black Coral Coral, a brutal conflict is brewing. Outside the city gates a new cult is worshipping the ''Redeemer'' -- a very young deity devoted to salvation. But the Redeemer's temple is as yet unbuilt and it's worshippers have no means to defend against the Dying God's rival cult creeping up from the south, whose ambitions are as sinister as they are deadly.
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* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: A non-villainous, HeroicSacrifice case that involves ''two'' people. As part of a GambitRoulette, [[spoiler:Hood and Anomander Rake]] set up their own deaths, the first being beheaded by the second and the second staging an ILetYouWin DuelToTheDeath. It allows for [[spoiler:Death's face to change, but more importantly to end Dragnipur's existence, free the Gate of Darkness and for Mother Dark to return zu her children.]]
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* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: A non-villainous, HeroicSacrifice case that involves ''two'' people. As part of a GambitRoulette, [[spoiler:Hood and Anomander Rake]] set up their own deaths, the first being beheaded by the second and the second staging an ILetYouWin DuelToTheDeath. It allows for [[spoiler:Death's face to change, but more importantly to end Dragnipur's existence, free the Gate of Darkness and for Mother Dark to return zu to her children.]]
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''Toll the Hounds'' is the eigth book of ten in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', following ''Literature/ReapersGale''. It is the last book in the Genabackis arc and revolves around the fates of the characters in Darujhistan and Black Coral, most of which have been last seen in ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce''.
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''Toll the Hounds'' is the eigth eighth book of ten in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', following ''Literature/ReapersGale''. It is the last book in the Genabackis arc and revolves around the fates of the characters in Darujhistan and Black Coral, most of which have been last seen in ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce''.
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* ApatheticCitizens: The Tiste Andii of Black Coral mostly just ingore the humans around them, even if they are planning the murder of their lord.
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* AsleepForDays: Picker spends several days in a coma-like state after her attempt to contanct Ganoes Paran via the Finnest House. For added appeal, Blend takes care of her.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to devour those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His soul being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to devour those few still dragging the waggon wagon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His soul being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* DivorceRequiresDeath: Thordy has had enough of Gaz, and serves Hood as the Mason of Death for the duration of the book in order to get rid of her violent husband. She enacts a ritual that eventually allows Hood to manifest himself physically in Darujhistan but requieres Gaz's death as the final step.
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* DivorceRequiresDeath: Thordy has had enough of Gaz, and serves Hood as the Mason of Death for the duration of the book in order to get rid of her violent husband. She enacts a ritual that eventually allows Hood to manifest himself physically in Darujhistan but requieres requires Gaz's death as the final step.
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* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler:Anomader Rake]] lets [[spoiler:Traveller]] win their duel because the convergence requieres it, although he puts up a good fight beforehand.
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* ILetYouWin: [[spoiler:Anomader [[spoiler:Anomander Rake]] lets [[spoiler:Traveller]] win their duel because the convergence requieres requires it, although he puts up a good fight beforehand.
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* ShirtlessScene: Spinnock gets one after dallying with the High Priestress of the temple in Black Coral. She even comments favourably on his appearance.
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* ShirtlessScene: Spinnock gets one after dallying with the High Priestress Priestess of the temple in Black Coral. She even comments favourably on his appearance.
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* DivorceRequiresDeath: Thordy has had enough of Gaz, and serves Hood as the Mason of Death for the duration of the book in order to get rid of her violent husband.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to close with those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His soul being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to close with devour those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His soul being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to close with those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His souls being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to close with those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His souls soul being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Right when the forces of Chaos are about to close with those few still dragging the waggon within the warren of Dragnipur, Anomander Rake kills [[spoiler:Hood, the to-date God of Death]]. His souls being sucked into Dragnipur opens the way for his CavalryOfTheDead, which consists of all those who have ever died, to swoop in and close with the forces of Chaos just in time to save the day.
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* ChildByRape: Harllo, who was conceived by a high ranking officer raping Stonny Menackis during the siege of Capustan. She is not beating about the bush concerning her revulsion regarding the child, and Harllo, being five by this point, actually thought for a long time that Rape was his father's name.
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* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: Spoofed when Tovald Nom breaks into a nobleman's house and roots through his library because he thinks it's just for show. He's right and finds literary pearls such as ''Tales of Pamby Doughty and the World Inside the Trunk (with illustrations by some dead man)''.
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*** Hood enlists Gaz, a SerialKiller, and his wife Thordy to cause enough bloodshed to enable him to physically materialise in Darujhistan. He's also been collecting the dead and rallying them [[ArmyOfTheDead [[NightOfTheLivingMooks into an army]] for quite some time.
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* PyrrhicVictory: The ArmyOfTheDead manages to [[spoiler: hold off the forces of Chaos]] long enough, but they lose most of their men.
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* DeathTakesAHoliday: Hood has enough of being Lord of Death, [[spoiler:and quits, taking [[ArmyOfTheDead all of the dead]] with him]]. And while the ''Realm'' of Death is still accessible, things take a while to shake themselves out again.
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* DeathTakesAHoliday: Hood has enough of being Lord of Death, [[spoiler:and quits, taking [[ArmyOfTheDead all of the dead]] dead with him]]. And while the ''Realm'' of Death is still accessible, things take a while to shake themselves out again.
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* BackupFromOtherworld: Hood's ArmyOfTheDead arrives in the nick of time to [[spoiler:guard the wagon within Dragnipur against the Army of Chaos.]]
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* ArmyOfTheDead: Hood marches all the dead he's shown to have been collecting out of his realm for good, in order to [[spoiler:have them fight against the legions of Chaos within Dragnipur]].
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* AxCrazy: Amby and Jula Bole are just as creative in their use of weaponry and disregard for the safety of everyone involved as their brother Crump is.
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