The Lady, formerly a powerful sorceress and ruler of the Empire of the North, follows along with the company, despondent as she deals with her newfound mortality. Their commission is to defeat the advance of the conquering Shadowmasters from the south.įollowing the defeat of the Dominator at the Barrowlands, the Black Company is down to just six men Croaker, physician, annalist, and the newly elected captain Goblin and One-Eye, company wizards Otto and Hagop, company veterans and Murgen, the company standard bearer. Continuing their travels south in search of Khatovar, where Croaker is oathbound to return the annals, they are conscripted into service yet again by the crown prince of Taglios. They go south, where the now powerless Lady briefly takes control of her Empire and where Croaker, the Annalist and Captain of the Company, is reunited with the Annals which hold the Company's history. Marching back after the defeat of the Dominator, the Black Company is down to just seven men. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred-year history. Shadow Games is the fourth novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company.
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