Black

Avowed of the Crimson Guard

"Whoever he was, he wore a thick scaled hauberk and mailed leggings, and bore a broad shield on his back. His surcoat had originally no doubt been deep crimson but now dried salt scale and turned it white.

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'Yes. Sergeant Tinsmith. And you?'

'Black.'" (RotCG, US mmpb, p.458)

"The man stood suddenly, shield raised, and charged.

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The Avowed rose again. With an angry swipe he broke the bolts from his shield. He advanced despite a bolt that went straight through one thigh." (RotCG, US mmpb, p.459)

"The Avowed paused, uncertain. Then in an explosion of heaped cargo, a length of chain came sweeping across the width of the wharf...until it came to snatch away the Avowed as if he were a doll and sweep him aside into the water." (RotCG, US mmpb, p.460)  

"The last guardsman to step from the stone wharf was an Avowed named Black. Water dripped from him as he stood watching the gathering crowd of Untan citizenry that edged ever closer, yelling obscenities.

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"'We have to go!' Greymane shouted.

Reluctantly, limping, the man abandoned the wharf...Greymane ordered double-time on the sweeps, called to Black, 'what is it?'

'Nothing. You didn't happen - there the bastards are! Pointing, the Avowed threw himself to the railing, almost falling out of the ship.

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'I swear to Hood I'll find you!' Black was yelling as the open water grew between them. 'I swear!'" (RotCG, US mmpb, p.476)

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