He is the filter through which we see the Company’s history as it is made.Īt the opening of the story, the Company is in service to the Syndic of Beryl, one of the Jewel Cities on the shores of the Sea of Torments. The narrator of these three books, the Books of the North, is Croaker, who also serves as the Company physician. These men are concerned with the here-and-now. Never mind that no one remembers where Khatovar is, or why the companies were set free to roam the world, or even what happened to the other Free Companies. In the realm of modern heroic fantasy, in particular, I think anyone would be hard put to protest the inclusion of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Ftiz Leiber’s tales of Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Michael Moorock’s great cycle of stories of The Eternal Champion, and Glen Cook’s Black Company.įor those new to Cook’s series, the books are the Annals of the Black Company, the history of the last of the Free Companies of Khatovar. I have a personal list of “best fantasy series” that includes some works that might not be “great,” but several that I think arguably are.

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