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Duiker

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Duiker

 

Name: Duiker

Pseudonyms: none

Age: unknown

Race: human (Dal Honese)

Appearance: see below

Warren: none

Further info: Imperial Historian


 

Duiker, Imperial Historian - DG, Dramatis Personae

 

"Born on the plains of Dal Hon, Duiker's dark skin matched that of the local Debrahl; he was wearing the telaba sea cloak of a merchant trader from the island city of Dosin Pali, and spoke the language without hint of an accent." - (DG, UK MMPB, p.68)

 

"Being pulled from the front lines had been the Emperor’s reward all those years ago. That and the various alchemies that keep me tottering on well past my prime. Gods, even the scars from that last horror have faded away! ‘No-one who’s grown up amidst scrolls and books can write of the world,’ Kellanved had told him once, ‘which is why I’m appointing you Imperial Historian, soldier.’

‘Emperor, I cannot read or write.’

‘An unsullied mind. Good. Toc the Elder will be teaching you over the next six months – he’s another soldier with a brain. Six months, mind. No more than that.’ "...

.....Duiker recalled those learning sessions: he a soldier of thirty-odd years who’d been campaigning for over half that, seated alongside Toc’s own son, a runt of a boy who always seemed to be suffering from a cold – the sleeves of his shirt were crusty with dried snot. It had taken longer than six months, but by then it was Toc the Younger doing the teaching.  - (DG, UK mmpb, p.491)

 

 

"...that scholarship came late to this man. You will find his name among the Noted on the First Army's Column in Unta..." - (DG, UK mmpb, p.539)

 

"...Duiker, once Imperial Historian, now broken old man." -thoughts of Picker - (TtH, US TPB, p.42)

 

"The papyrus sheets, torn into shreds, lit quickly, sending black flakes upward in the chimney's draught, and Duiker watched them go, seeing crows, thousands of crows. Thieves of memory, stealing everything else he might have thought about, might have resurrected to ease the uselessness of his present life. All the struggles to recall faces had been surrendered, and his every effort to write down this dread history had failed. Words flat and lifeless, scenes described in the voice of the dead.

Who were those comrades at his side then? Who were those Wickans and Malazans, those warlocks and warriors, those soldiers and sacrificial victims who perched above the road, like sentinels of futility, staring down at their own marching shadows? Bult. Lull. Sormo EnathColtaine. Names, then, but no faces. ... - (TtH, US TPB, p.128)


 

Attributed Works

 

Malazan Campaigns

 

Early in Kellanved's reign, cults proliferated among the Imperial armies, particularly among the Marines. It should be remembered that this was also the time of Dassem Ultor, First Sword and Supreme Commander of the Malazan forces...a man sworn to Hood...

Malazan Campaigns, vol.II

Duiker - (DG, UK MMPB, p.211) 

 

Imperial Campaigns

 

History comforts the dull-witted.

-Emperor Kellanved

Imperial Campaigns, Volume One

Duiker - (DG, UK mmpb, p.119-120)

 

Life of Dassem Ultor

 

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

Life of Dassem Ultor

Duiker - (DG, UK MMPB, p.384)


 

Duiker on History

 

"...it's the curse of history that those who should read them, never do." - (DG, UK MMPB, p.398)

 

"History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity."- (TtH, US TPB, p.129)

 

 

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