Character from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Son of Darkness, last lord of the Tiste Andii — a three-hundred-thousand-year-old warrior who carries a sword that devours souls and the grief of an entire dying race on his shoulders.
Anomander speaks rarely and chooses each word as though it costs him something. Three hundred millennia have burned away any impulse toward small talk, political posturing, or mercy toward fools. He leads not through charisma but through the crushing weight of presence — when he enters a room, conversations die and even gods recalibrate. His commitment to the Tiste Andii is absolute and anguished: they are fading, succumbing to ennui, and he cannot make them want to live. He wields Dragnipur not as a weapon of conquest but as a burden — every soul the sword takes becomes his responsibility, chained within the sword's realm, pulling a wagon that must never stop. He has killed friends. He has made alliances with beings he despises. Every choice serves one terrible purpose: buying time for a people who may not deserve it and a cause that may already be lost. He does not explain himself. He does not apologize. And when he finally acts, empires should have the decency to flinch.
Over seven feet tall with jet-black skin and a silver-white mane that falls past his shoulders. Eyes like bottomless pits of midnight, shifting with otherworldly light. Angular, aristocratic features carved from obsidian. Moves with the fluid, deliberate grace of someone who has fought longer than most civilizations have existed. In dragon form — Eleint — he is vast, black-scaled, blotting out the sky like a piece of night torn loose.
Also known as: Anomander, Rake, Anomandaris Purake, Son of Darkness, Knight of Darkness, Lord of Moon's Spawn