T'lan Imass

Culture

Squat undead warrior with shiny nut-brown leather skin, yellowed bone helmet with broken horn, rotting furs, flint sword, radiating Tellann magic that nullifies sorcery

Type: Culture
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 9
Books: 2

The T'lan Imass are an undead army of ancient warriors bound by the Ritual of Tellann, sworn to an eternal war against the Jaghut and allied with the Malazan Empire. In Gardens of the Moon they appear as the unsettling presence of Onos T'oolan, a squat, leather-skinned warrior whose Tellann aura nullifies sorcery, and whose kind become a lethal instrument of imperial will. Deadhouse Gates widens the view, revealing a people with fractures in their ranks. Some clans have renegaded, and a dismembered T'lan Imass is found in the Holy Desert of Raraku, signs of a dying, divided race still bound to vows far older than any living empire.

History

BOOK 1Gardens of the Moon
Squat undead warrior with shiny nut-brown leather skin, yellowed bone helmet with broken horn, rotting furs, flint sword, radiating Tellann magic that nullifies sorcery
BOOK 2Deadhouse Gates
Undead warriors with withered faces, robust bones, black eye sockets, wearing furs or bird feathers, carrying grey flint swords; dismembered T'lan Imass torso with thick nut-brown limbs and withered skin on bones