Black the Lesser

Black the Lesser was an Avowed of the Crimson Guard, First Company. His name was meant to differentiate him from Black the Elder, his brother and also a Guardsman.Assail (novel), Chapter 2 He was a tall and hulking Napan with long night-black hair and a thick black beard.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 7, UK HC p.111Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 4, UK TPB p.189Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 16, UK HC p.251 He excelled at stealthy reconnaissance and foraging, a skill developed since his days as a hunter in his youth.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 8, UK HC p.125-126-127
If asked, he insisted he deserved the moniker Black the Greater over his brother.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 14, UK HC p.215
==In Return of the Crimson Guard==
At the end of the Diaspora he returned to Fortress Haven on Stratem with Skinner.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 1 Chapter 4, UK TPB p.189 The reunited Guard then invaded Unta, the Malazan imperial capital. Black the Lesser was one of the select few Avowed chosen to accompany Skinner and Shimmer into the Malazan Imperial Palace where they found only Mallick Rel.Return of the Crimson Guard, Book 2 Chapter 2, UK TPB p.293-294 
Afterwards he fought at the Malazans at the Battle of the Plains near Li Heng where he was amongst those disavowed by K'azz D'Avore.Blood and Bone, Dramatis Personae
== In Assail==
After rejoining K'azz's faction, Black the Lesser travelled to Assail as part of Shimmer's expedition to find Cal-Brinn and the lost Fourth Company. 
==In Kellanved's Reach==
Before the rise of the Malazan Empire, when the Crimson Guard was still a mortal mercenary band, Black and his brother served under Courian D'Avore. The Guard fought for the Bloorian League and participated in the siege of Castle Jurda. When Gregar and Haraj entered the Guard's camp in effort to join them, Gregar noted the presence of two similar looking fellows sitting together. He speculated that they were "the famed Brothers Black, the Lesser and the Greater".Kellanved's Reach, Chapter 11, US HC p.173 
==In Forge of the High Mage==
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==Early History==
While out hunting with his "Da" at night, Black came upon a meadow filled with bright white flowers opening to the silvery light of the full moon. He identified them as Moon flowers, said to drift down to earth as seeds from Moon's Spawn. When he returned the next day, he could not tell one flower from the next.Forge of the High Mage, Chapter 24, UK HC p.369
==Notes and references==
Category:Crimson Guard members
Category:Disavowed
Category:Males
Category:Napans