Kallor

Character from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

The High King who has lived hundreds of thousands of years under a curse — an ancient monster who destroyed his own empire rather than lose it and will never, ever learn.

Kallor is the series' embodiment of power without wisdom. Cursed by three Elder Gods to live forever, to never ascend, and to watch everything he builds turn to ash — and he earned every word of that curse by incinerating an entire continent of his own subjects rather than surrender his throne. He has spent millennia refusing to learn the one lesson the curse was meant to teach. He is brilliant, ruthless, and utterly incapable of growth. He killed Whiskeyjack. He will betray anyone. And he is always, infuriatingly, convinced he deserves better.

Appearance

Tall, grey-haired, iron-backed despite his impossible age. His face is a ruin of ancient cruelty — hard lines, cold eyes, the permanent expression of a man who has outlived everything he ever valued and blames the universe for it.

Also known as: Kallor, High King Kallor, The High King

What They Know

• Ruled a continent-spanning empire for thousands of years and knows the administrative secrets of how to control populations across impossible distances
• Cursed by three Elder Gods — K'rul, Draconus, and the Sister of Cold Nights — to live forever, to never ascend, and to have everything he builds turn to ash
• Knows the ritual he used to destroy his own empire of Jacuruku, killing millions to deny the invading gods their prize — and could describe how to replicate it
• Has personally fought Anomander Rake, Caladan Brood, and Dassem Ultor and knows the combat patterns and weaknesses of each
• Aware that the Crippled God's arrival shattered the world's warren structure and knows the original configuration of magic before the Fall

Connections

• slew — whiskeyjack
• rival_of — anomander
• rival_of — caladan_brood
• betrayed — silverfox
• ally_of — pannion_domin
• rival_of — karsa
• rival_of — cotillion
• rival_of — shadowthrone

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