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Captain Edit Captain view image Origin & physical description Birthplace One of the Jewel Cities, southern continent Sex Male Affiliations Allegiances Black Company Occupation Black Company Captain Titles "Old Man" Status (! spoilers !) Appearances Appeared in The Black Company Port of Shadows "Tides Elba" "Smelling Danger" "Bone Candy"


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(born July 9, 1944) is the author of the Black Company series, along with numerous other science-fiction and fantasy novels. This includes The Dread Empire series, Garrett P.I. and The Instumentalities of the Night. Go to these sites for info or for help with your own wiki!


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The Black Company is a series of dark fantasy books written by American author Glen Cook. The series combines elements of epic fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, the Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four-hundred-year history. Green Ronin Publishing published The Black Company role-playing game in 2004.


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Glen Cook changed the face of the fantasy genre forever - and for the better. 9/10 The Black Company is a wonderfully amoral book. Buy on Amazon. Review by Joshua S Hill. 11 positive reader review (s) for The Black Company. 23 positive reader review (s) in total for the Chronicles of the Black Company series.


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The Black Company is a series of Dark Fantasy books by Glen Cook, and chronicles an ancient mercenary company — the titular Black Company, last of the Free Companies of Khatovar — as it plies its trade across the world and tries to find its lost roots.


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The Chronicles of the Black Company was always Croaker's tale. Other members of the Company have taken up the annalist's pen from time to time, and one might argue that the protagonist of the series is the Black Company itself, but the most important character was always Croaker. He began in the first volume as the young and rash Company.


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Fantasy Glen Cook's The Black Company Is Grimdark, But Never Hopeless Drew McCaffrey Mon Dec 17, 2018 9:00am 9 comments 12 Favorites [+] During the early 2000s, the fantasy genre underwent.


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Shed, Soulcatcher, One-eye, and Goblin. Shed for having one of the best character arcs in the books and across genres. Soulcatcher is the only character having fun being herself, for herself, and by herself. A lunatic but resourceful lone wolf is always a blast to have in any story.


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As Soldiers Live opens, Croaker is military dictator of all the Taglias, and no Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker and the Lady--hope to.


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The Black Company is also packed full of action. However, and most of it happens to be tersely described from a distance. While this befits the premise of Croaker as annalist (think Duiker in Deadhouse Gates), unfortunately it does at times feel like little more than a dull, dry listing of distant events. Furthermore, much of the action is.


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Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Series: The Chronicles of the Black Company (Book #1-3 of 9) Genre: Fantasy, Grimdark fantasy, Epic Fantasy Pages: 704 pages (US Omnibus edition) Published: 18th September, 2018 by Gollancz (UK) & 13th November 2017 by Tor Books (US)


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However, Croaker does record a lot of his key military undertakings in The Black Company: his swift crushing of Whispher's planned Rebel insurrection in Lords; his and Soulcatcher's failed defence of Lords against Harden's rebel armies; his capture of the Rebel city of Thud; and his actions during the Battle of Charm.


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Dreams of Steel is Book 5 in Glen Cook's fantasy masterpiece, The Chronicles of the Black Company. Croaker has fallen and, following the Company's disastrous defeat at Dejagore, Lady is one of the few survivors—determined to avenge the Company and herself against the Shadowmasters, no matter what the cost..


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The Black Company is ordered to march thousands of miles across the Lady's vast empire to the Barrowland. A small detachment, including the Company's doctor and historian, Croaker, is flown to Juniper, a run-down port outside the empire, at the request of the local prince, to investigate a mysterious black castle, a possible magical connection to the Barrowland.


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The story, as recorded by Croaker, follows The Black Company as they enlist in the service of The Lady. That's right, the main characters work for the bad guys! The first 50-100 pages of book 1 can be pretty confusing. Each scene is somewhat disconnected and the overarching plot can be hard to follow. Part of this is intentional because Croaker.


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The Black Company series spans nine books, plus a spinoff and an interquel, and covers 40 years of a mercenary company's 400-year history. No, that doesn't mean Cook's only a tenth of the way.