The Lady

Character from The Black Company by Glen Cook

The dark empress who hired the Company — not evil enough to be a villain, not good enough to be a hero, and smarter than everyone who tries to sort her into either category.

Also known as: The Lady, Lady, Dorotea Senjak

What They Know

• One of the most powerful sorcerers alive — her magic can reshape battlefields, control armies, and bind the Taken to her will
• Formerly half of the Domination alongside the Dominator — she betrayed and buried him, then built her own empire on the ruins
• Bound the Ten Who Were Taken — sorcerer-generals enslaved to her service through true-name magic and compulsion
• True name is Dorotea Senjak — knowledge of a sorcerer's true name grants power over them; she guards this secret with lethal intensity
• Loses much of her sorcerous power after the Barrowland events — joins the Company as a near-mortal, demonstrating she's formidable even without magic
• Her relationship with Croaker develops from employer-employee to genuine partnership — she trusts the Annalist more than she trusts the Taken
• Commands the northern empire through a combination of magical dominance, political cunning, and the threat of the Taken

Connections

• employs — the_black_company
• romantic_interest — croaker
• commands — soulcatcher
• commands — the_limper
• commands — howler
• betrayed — the_dominator
• nemesis_of — darling

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