The Annals

Item from The Black Company by Glen Cook

The Black Company's history — centuries of journals kept by a succession of Annalists who wrote down the truth as they saw it, which means the truth with all the interesting lies left in.

Also known as: The Annals, The Company Annals, The Books of the Company

What They Know

• The Black Company's centuries-old historical record — maintained by a designated Annalist who records events, deaths, and institutional knowledge
• The Annals ARE the narrative — the books we read are literally the in-world journals, with all their biases and omissions
• Treated with religious reverence by the Company — losing the Annals would be losing the memory of every fallen brother
• Three known Annalists in the series: Croaker (northern books), Murgen (middle books), Sleepy (later books) — each with a different narrative voice and different biases
• Some older volumes are missing or damaged — gaps in the Company's four-hundred-year history that can never be recovered

Connections

• written_by — croaker
• written_by — murgen
• written_by — sleepy
• property_of — the_black_company

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