1.4 Disappearance during the Kiaulune wars.About 15 years later in Soldiers Live, both Widowmaker (a brand new set of armor) and Lifetaker reappeared in the homeworld, this time during Sleepy's war against the Protectorate. Mounted on the massive black stallions and crawling with frightening lights and glamours, the two larger-than-life personas of Widowmaker and Lifetaker terrorized the Shadowlanders and confused their leaders during the Shadowmaster wars. A copy of this armor was used by Ram during Dreams of Steel.
Croaker would take on the Widowmaker persona simultaneously when Lady became Lifetaker, her own counterpart persona and corresponding armor.Įxcept for a brief usage by Murgen, the first Widowmaker rig was used exclusively by Croaker throughout the Company's movements in the Books of the South and the Books of Glittering Stone. The Widowmaker persona and armor were chosen by Lady's husband Croaker, who was both the Captain of the Black Company and the Liberator (hired warlord) of Taglios. Widowmaker referred either to a fictitious persona created by Lady, or, the three different sets of costume body armor associated with it. Croaker in the first Widowmaker armor, astride one of the black stallions, by Raymond Swanland
