Ganoes Paran
Captain Ganoes Stabro Paran started off as a Lieutenant in Itko Kan and was reassigned to Adjunct Lorn after the massacre of the Nineteenth Regiment of the Itko Kanese Eighth Cavalry by the Hounds of Shadow. On Genabackis, he has a relationship with Tattersail, a cadre sorceress and reader of the Deck of Dragons. Despite the title of captain, Paran realizes that the real commander of the Bridgeburners is Whiskeyjack.

Paran was slain by Sorry while she was possessed by Cotillion, and revived by Oponn, the Twin Gods of Chance, with the consequence of his soon to be lover, Tattersail, dying in his place afterwards. He was then pursued by the insane animated puppet Hairlock, who was eventually slain by the Hounds of Shadow. The Hounds would have killed Paran next were it not for the intervention of Anomander Rake, who slew two Hounds. Paran tasted the blood of the dead Hounds and was drawn into the Warren within Dragnipur. Through these actions, Paran became the Master of the Deck of Dragons, Jen'isand Rul (translates from Rhivi as "the Wanderer within the Sword"), and something akin to a Soletaken assuming the form of a Hound - although perhaps larger than the Hounds of Shadow - and assumed a variety of magical abilities of which even he is uncertain of, but include travel through temporarily created cards which only need be drawn (on any surface), the ability to traverse the Houses of the Azath, and the power to summon gods. Paran's has since been active on a variety of continents and Warrens, working to oppose the Crippled God and support the Malazan Empire. His most notable action to date as Master of the Deck was to bless High House Chains, forcing it into the role of a one of many Houses in the pantheon rather than allowing it to exist outside of it,and awakening the Deragoth, the Hounds of Darkness. He became an unofficial High Fist after first impersonating another captain becoming the only officer fit for duty in the remnants of the Malazan 2nd Army decimated by disease. Elected as High Fist by the surviving officers and Fists after instigating the removal of the disease by causing the death of Poliel, Goddess of Disease, and after the Fists read reports that Dujek had written about him.