Malazan Book of the Fallen · Character
Onos T'oolan
Also known as T'oolan, First among all, Thol
- Supporting
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 9
Onos T'oolan is a supporting character in Malazan Book of the Fallen (Book 1).
- Gender
- male
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 9
- Books
- 1
Onos T’oolan awakens as a T’lan Imass warrior, a remnant of an ancient people whose long struggle reaches into the present. He carries his flint sword with the grave patience of one who has endured ages, and his presence becomes an unlikely counterweight to the living around him. In the camp, he stands immobile beside the fire, his blade hovering at Lorn’s throat—a silent figure whose choices reshape the course of their uneasy encounter.
Description
Onos T’oolan is squat and powerfully compact, his shiny nut-brown skin leathery and drawn over thin, oak-root-like muscles that show through torn patches. A heavy chinless jaw, high cheeks, and pronounced brow ridge frame deep, dark eye sockets, where a faint fiery glimmer can appear. He is cloaked in rotting furs and wears a yellowed bone skull-cap fashioned from a horned beast, one horn broken off at its base. A wide, rippled flint sword completes his stark, ancient silhouette. The available description identifies Onos T’oolan as a T’lan Imass warrior but gives no specific details of his face, coloring, hair, build, or clothing. His most distinctive visual feature is a massive flint sword, stark and heavy in its primitive material. His bearing is best rendered as spare and solemn, with an ancient, unbound presence rather than invented adornment.
Connections
Family & partnersFriends & mentorsRivals
- KA
Kig Avenclansman
Kig Aven was Tool’s clan chieftain; Tool says Kig Aven’s cessation and the loss of his kin left him alone and unbound.
Ganoes Stabro Paranmission ally
Tool accompanies Lorn, whose mission is connected to Paran and the Malazan military; no personal bond between Tool and Paran is established here.
Lornconflicting source relationships
Lorn directs Tool during their mission to enter the barrow and free the Jaghut Tyrant. They share doubts about what they are compelled to do; Tool offers to help her and invites her to accompany him when his vows end.
- KO
Kilava Onassclan Bone Caster
Kilava was the Bone Caster of Tool’s clan chieftain, Kig Aven, and had been missing since long before the Emperor reawakened the Imass.
- LT
Logros T'lanformer commander
Logros commanded the T’lan Imass during the Jaghut War. Tool says he is now unbound from Logros after his clan’s cessation.
- PC
Pran Cholesummoner
Pran Chole, a Bone Caster, summons Onos T’oolan to aid in confronting Raest.
- R
Raestopponent
Onos strikes Raest down with his flint sword as part of the effort to end the Tyrant’s threat.
Story so far
BOOK 1I. Gardens of the Moon
Key events
Appearances
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