Anomander Rake
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.
Also known as: Anomander, Rake, Anomandaris Purake, Son of Darkness, Knight of Darkness, Lord of Moon's Spawn
What They Know
- Wields Dragnipur, the sword that chains souls to pull a wagon fleeing Chaos within its own pocket realm
- Son of Mother Dark, born of the Tiste Andii ruling family in Kharkanas before the Sundering
- Can shapeshift into a massive black dragon — one of the most powerful Eleint alive
- Commands Moon's Spawn, a floating Jaghut sky keep he claimed and made the Andii's last fortress
- Has walked the world for over three hundred thousand years, predating every human empire
- Allied with Caladan Brood against the Malazan Empire's expansion into Genabackis
- His Warren is Kurald Galain — Darkness itself — and he is its most powerful wielder
- The Tiste Andii under his rule are succumbing to apathy and ennui, a slow racial death he cannot halt
Connections
- wields — dragnipur
- commands — moon_spawn
- ally_of — caladan_brood
- rival_of — kallor
- ally_of — whiskeyjack
- rival_of — shadowthrone
- slew — whiskeyjack
- member_of — tiste_andii
- located_at — black_coral
- rival_of — osserc
- possesses — kurald_galain
- ally_of — kruppe
- ally_of — ganoes
- ally_of — dujek
- ally_of — itkovian
- sibling_of — silchas
- commands — korlat
- commands — spinnock
- rival_of — draconus
- slew — draconus
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