Bugg

Character from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

Tehol's humble manservant who is actually Mael, Elder God of the Seas — an ancient divinity hiding in plain sight as an old man who cooks terrible soup.

Bugg is Mael, one of the most powerful Elder Gods in existence, choosing to spend his twilight as a manservant to a half-naked economist. The absurdity is deliberate and genuine — he likes Tehol, likes the simplicity, likes being useful in small ways after eons of being worshipped for terrible ones. He cooks, he cleans, he builds things badly, and occasionally he unmakes threats that would level cities, always returning to his duties with the quiet satisfaction of someone who has found the one thing power cannot buy: a friend who treats him as an equal.

Appearance

Short, elderly, nondescript — the kind of face that belongs on a servant and nowhere else. Stooped shoulders, worn clothing, calloused hands. Nothing about him suggests the ocean's fury compressed into mortal form, which is exactly the point.

Also known as: Bugg, Mael, Elder God of the Seas

What They Know

• As Mael, Elder God of the Seas, he senses every body of water on the continent and knows what passes through or over them
• Aware that Errastas, the Elder God known as the Errant, is actively manipulating Letherii politics and intends to reclaim his old dominion over fate
• Knows the precise locations of drowned cities and sunken temples from civilizations that predate the Letherii by tens of thousands of years
• Can feel when other Elder Gods stir or die — sensed the chaining of other gods and knows who ordered it
• Maintains his disguise as a manservant not from weakness but because direct divine intervention attracts the Crippled God's attention

Connections

• friend_of — tehol
• located_at — letheras
• rival_of — errastas
• ally_of — brys

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