The Crippled God's Tent

Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

The chained god's prison on the mortal plane — a ragged tent where an alien deity writhes in agony, his chains sunk into the earth of a world that is not his own.

The Crippled God — Kaminsod — was pulled from his own world and chained to this one by a cabal of mages who wanted his power and got more than they bargained for. The tent is his prison, the chains are literal and metaphorical, and his agony has been radiating outward for millennia, poisoning everything it touches. His influence corrupted the Pannion Seer, cursed Rhulad Sengar, and seeded madness across multiple continents. The tent moves — or rather, it exists wherever the god's chains allow, which is determined by the positions of the entities that anchor those chains in the mortal world. The Bonehunters' final march was to reach this tent and free the god — not destroy him, but heal the wound his presence had torn in reality by sending him home.

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A tattered, filthy tent of stained canvas, unremarkable from outside except for the chains. The chains emerge from the earth around the tent — massive iron links corroded with age, sunk into bedrock, radiating outward in every direction. Inside, the air is thick with the stench of infection and despair. The god within is broken — a figure of terrible wounds that never heal, flesh that rots and regrows, a being in constant agony.

Also known as: The Crippled God's Tent, Kaminsod's prison, the tent of chains

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