She manipulated him, won her freedom, and subsequently trapped Bomanz in a quasi-undead spirit state between dimensions. Their prison was a place called the Barrowland.Īfter four centuries, the wizard Bomanz awakened the Lady during a spirit walk into the Barrowlands, in an attempt to learn from her. The best they could do was to render them unconscious and imprison them. It was overthrown by a rebellion led by the White Rose, but neither she nor the rebel wizards were strong enough to kill the Dominator, the Lady or the Taken. With his wife, the Lady, whose magical skill is second only to that of the Dominator, he founded an empire unrivaled for evil. The most potent of his victims are called the Ten Who Were Taken, or just Taken for short. The Dominator is an extremely powerful wizard who has the ability to turn his most bitter enemies into his loyal servants, even those nearly his equal in magic.
The book combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it describes the dealings of an elite mercenary unit – the Black Company – with the Lady, ruler of the Northern Empire. The Black Company, released in May 1984, is the first novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series The Black Company.
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