Origins
Some characters in the novels have theorized that some Warrens are descended from Holds and others from Elder Warrens (such as Telas, the human Warren of Fire, from Tellann, the Imass' racial Warren, itself stolen from Kurald Thyrllan, the racial Warren of Light of the Tiste Liosan). It was revealed in Memories of Ice that the Warrens are shaped by K'rul, Elder God of Warrens, through his own flesh and flowing with his blood. The Warrens are also personified by various Eleint, with each Warren being somehow related to one or more specific dragons. The dragons themselves are generally sealed into the Eleint Warren.
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