Malazan Book of the Fallen · Magic system
Deck of Dragons
- Magic system
Divination cards drawn from a velvet bag, including Obelisk and Rope amid High House Death. A Malazan reading deck organized by Houses, not a mundane game.
- Type
- Magic system
- First appears
- Book 2 · Ch. 5
- Books
- 1
The Deck of Dragons first surfaces in Deadhouse Gates as a Malazan divination tool organized by Houses, its cards—Obelisk, Rope, and those of High House Death—drawn from a velvet bag to reveal fates. Across the series the Deck expands from a localized oracle into a living map of warring pantheons, its Houses rising, falling, and realigning as gods ascend or are slain. Readings become battlegrounds where mortals and immortals alike contest the future, and the Deck itself evolves into a contested artifact whose shifting imagery can herald cataclysms or crown new powers.
Evolution
BOOK 2Deadhouse Gates
Divination cards drawn from a velvet bag, including Obelisk and Rope amid High House Death. A Malazan reading deck organized by Houses, not a mundane game.
Appearances
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