Apsalar

Character from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

A fisher girl possessed by the god of assassins as a teenager — left with a master killer's skills and the memories of murders she did not choose to commit.

Apsalar was Sorry — a girl Cotillion possessed and used as his mortal weapon. When the god withdrew, he left behind his skills, his knowledge, and the emotional wreckage of a stolen adolescence. She kills with preternatural ability and feels each death with a clarity she never asked for. Her relationship with Crokus is tender and doomed because she can never be the girl he fell in love with — that girl was already dead before they met.

Appearance

Beautiful in a cold, precise way — dark hair, angular features, movements so fluid and controlled they look choreographed. Her eyes carry the particular emptiness of someone who remembers killing people through borrowed hands.

Also known as: Apsalar, Sorry, Fisher Girl

What They Know

• Retains Cotillion's complete knowledge of the Shadow Warren — every path, threshold, and blind spot in the realm between worlds
• Knows the identities and methods of every active Claw operative from Cotillion's memories, even those embedded deep undercover
• Can identify the precise hand-sign language used by the Malazan Claw and knows their emergency extraction protocols
• Remembers where Cotillion hid weapon caches across Seven Cities during his mortal life as the assassin Dancer
• Knows Shadowthrone's true vulnerabilities — residual memories from when Cotillion and Kellanved were mortal partners, before Ascension

Connections

• lover_of — crokus
• possesses — cotillion_skills
• ally_of — cotillion
• rival_of — shadowthrone

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