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Dancer's Lament is the first novel of the Path to Ascendancy series by Canadian author Ian Esslemont, set in the same world as the Malazan Book of the Fallen. The novel chronicles the start of the alliance between the mage and the assassin who would go on to found the Malazan Empire and centers around their attempted conquest of the city-state of Li Heng.