Location from The Black Company by Glen Cook
The Company's legendary origin — the place they've been trying to get back to for four hundred years, a name in the oldest Annals that might be a city, might be a myth, and is definitely far south.
Khatovar is the Black Company's founding myth — the place they came from, the place the Annals say they should return to, the destination that gives the Company's four-hundred-year march a direction if not a purpose. It's referenced throughout the series as the Company's ultimate goal, especially in the southern books when Sleepy leads the march toward it. The journey to Khatovar is the series' structural spine: the Company is always going somewhere, always under contract, but underneath every deployment is the awareness that they're supposed to be heading home. What 'home' means after four centuries is one of the series' quieter questions.
Khatovar is more idea than place for most of the series — it appears in the oldest Annals as the Company's point of origin, a distant land they marched away from centuries ago. When finally reached in the later books, it's... complicated. The reality of Khatovar doesn't match the legend, because reality never does.
Also known as: Khatovar