She won't fall till the Great Comet is up there. In Juniper, when Croaker suggested that the Company turn against the Lady and fight for Darling, the Captain forbade it:Įight years since the comet was in the sky. The Great Comet did not appear during Shadows Linger, but it was discussed by members of the Black Company. But the Rebels were ultimately defeated, and the comet appeared "enfeebled" and "drained" before the battle was even over. Outside the Tower, the Rebel stalled until the comet grew closest, and it illuminated some of the night fighting during the climactic Battle of Charm. For him it was one of the great portents of impending victory.Īs the Company and the armies of the Lady's Empire were pushed closer and closer to the Tower by the Rebel, the comet grew brighter in the night sky. I wondered if the Rebel had become equally indifferent. It had been in the sky so long we scarcely noticed it now. The comet hung on the horizon like a ghost of a god's scimitar. Countless Rebel prophets have predicted that she will fall while a comet is in the sky. The Rebel leadership, the Circle of Eighteen, had prophesied for years that its appearance would be a powerful and favorable omen for their cause.Įvery major event in the saga of the Lady and her husband has been presaged by a comet. Raven and Croaker observed that the distant object seemed to be ominously pointing at the Tower at Charm. Croaker had learned about it beforehand, presumably from the quartermaster Pickles who shared stories of the Rebel mythos confided to him by Rebel sympathizer Flick. This was its first mention in the Annals. At its closest point, it illuminated the whole Barrowland during the night when Tokar – the leader of the Resurrectionists – broke the spells of confinement that were trapping the Lady.Īfter the Black Company reached the Stair of Tear, Raven mentioned that the Great Comet was now visible. Its growth in the sky caused Besand a great deal of stress, and he surmised correctly that Resurrectionists would attempt to liberate the Dominator. Some days earlier, Bomanz and Besand (the Monitor of the Eternal Guard) observed it together while it was still small. These events constituted the "flashback" narrative of Bomanz in The White Rose. On its tenth return, the Lady effected her escape from the Barrowland. On its ninth return, it was viewed by Bomanz and Jasmine very shortly after their move to the Barrowland from Oar. The Great Comet returned to the sky over the northern continent every 37 years after the White Rose Rebellion. It was prominent in the sky over the Great Forest when the White Rose and her armies defeated the Dominator, the Lady, the Ten Who Were Taken, and their forces. The first chronological appearance of the Great Comet was during the final battle of the White Rose Rebellion. 1.2 The Lady liberated from the Barrowlandīefore Croaker's Annals The Domination.The Great Forest suffered bad winters after each of the comet's passages. The Great Comet has a "unique silver scimitar shape" according to Croaker the Black Company Annalist. About 14 years later: the Lady's loss of her sorcery during the Battle of the Barrowland as a result of Silent's completion of the Rite of Naming (climax of The White Rose).
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The collapse of the Domination during the White Rose Rebellion (407 years before The Black Company).In the fourth appearance, the comet supernaturally broke its astronomical cycle and appeared about 23 years early. At least four of its appearances presaged major historical events pertaining to the Lady and the Dominator. The Great Comet was a comet which typically appeared in the sky over the northern continent of the homeworld every 37 years.