Just finished book 9 of Malazan, Dust of Dreams.
Amazing action to end the book, but so. many. questions.
Icarium back? Or did he fulfill his purpose as a fighter pilot and find an end? And how does that impact the kids finding his crystal city? And what is his connection to the K'chain Che'mall? Were they inventors that lived in harmony?
Where did the K'chain Nah'Ruk come from? Their own realm/warren of some sort? Were they biding their time for hundreds of thousands of years to gather the power to come through and mount an assault? What's their animosity? Just to find and kill the Che'Malle from their old slave/master spat?
What's going on with Icaria? Is it part of Kolanse? Or was it just a device to show some of Icarium's mysterious past, the place housing his greatest creation?
What's going on with Draconus and Ublala Pung? If he really turned over a new leaf at the end of the Dragnipur/Rake episode, why did he announce his arrival with destruction?
Still can't make any sense of Toc and his station. Don't understand what's going on with the undead Jaghut that laugh at everything, nor do I understand what's going on with Hood.
Anxious to find out which Bonehunters are still trucking along, and to see if Quick Ben got himself out of one last sticky situation.
Still waiting on Kalam Mekhar to get out of the Azath somehow, and affect the end-game in a super dramatic way. That's Chekhov's Gun 101.
Also waiting to see how Tayschrenn and Laseen play into the end game. No way they just sit back on Malaz Island, essentially as hostages, with no role left to play (I hope).
Might have to just read this book cover-to-cover, or else the questions I still have about the series might kill me.
