A Critical Dragon | Malazan Spoilers: Kallor and the Tragedy of the High King @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Spoilers for Memories of Ice, Toll the Hounds, Return of the Crimson Guard, and Blood and Bone. For safety's sake, basically SPOILERS ALL for Malazan work by Steven Erikson and Ian C. Esslemont.

Kallor is almost universally reviled within Malazan fandom, but is this disgust at Kallor actually merited?
This is a brief discussion of some of the aspects of Kallor that I think complicate the picture more than a little, and place him as a tragic figure, rather than as a villain.

The image of Kallor is from: autumntavern.tumblr.com/post/135196316064/high-king-kallor-psst-there-ist-also-a-version-of
They have a website of great fantasy imagery and Malazan inspired art: autumntavern.tumblr.com
Their Twitter Handle is: @SimiOfDoom

Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
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