Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Walled city on Genabackis that endured the Pannion Domin's siege — where Itkovian, Shield Anvil of Fener, took the grief of an entire city into himself and died carrying it.
Capustan held against the Pannion Domin longer than anyone expected, and the cost was measured in horrors. The Tenescowri — the Pannion's peasant army of cannibals — broke through the walls and flooded the streets, and the fighting devolved into room-by-room butchery. The Grey Swords, a mercenary company sworn to the god Fener, fought to the last alongside the Capustan militia. What made Capustan sacred was Itkovian's act. The Shield Anvil opened himself to the grief and suffering of every soul in the city — living and dead — and carried it all. The weight of it killed him, but the act transformed the meaning of the battle from military defeat into something that echoed through the pantheon.
A battered walled city, its stonework cracked and stained with old blood. Towers lean at angles from siege damage never fully repaired. The streets inside are narrow, built for defense, and the central temple district still bears scorch marks from the Tenescowri assault.
Also known as: Capustan