I could, however, tell you of the army I originally belonged to, before the Grey Swords.’ He glanced over with his one glittering eye, and Redmask saw amusement there, a kind of mad hilarity that left him uneasy. ‘I could tell you of the Malazans.’ ‘I have not heard of that tribe.’ Anaster Toc laughed again. ‘Not a tribe. An empire.