Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
The Warren of Darkness — ancestral homeland of the Tiste Andii, realm of Mother Dark, and the source of the darkness that Anomander Rake spent his existence defending.
Kurald Galain is the eldest warren, the realm from which the Tiste Andii emerged and to which they have spent an eternity trying to return. Mother Dark — the goddess of Darkness — dwells here, though her relationship with her children has been broken since the civil wars that shattered the Tiste into three peoples. Anomander Rake spent hundreds of thousands of years defending the Gate of Darkness — first with his sword Dragnipur, then with his own death. The warren bleeds through into the mortal world wherever the Tiste Andii dwell in numbers — Black Coral exists in permanent twilight because Kurald Galain seeps through. The prequel trilogy reveals Kharkanas, the first city, built within this warren before the fall.
Absolute darkness — not the absence of light but the presence of something else, a tangible force that presses against the skin and fills the lungs. The landscape exists in negative: structures sensed rather than seen, vast distances perceived through the weight of the dark rather than visual depth. For the Tiste Andii, the darkness is warm, familiar, a mother's embrace. For outsiders, it is suffocating terror.
Also known as: Kurald Galain, the Warren of Darkness, Darkness, Mother Dark's realm