Guust Nolet was a deceased member of the Black Company who received a memorial inscription from the Company's dedicated grave keeper, Outsweeper, in Port of Shadows. She and her sister Hika Nolet were among the very small number of women in the Company. The sisters dressed in men's clothing. They were evidently disliked by many others in the Company.
Outsweeper's epitath for Guust was "Cross-dressing in plain sight" and the epitath for her sister Hika was "Redheaded cross-dressing demon whisperer". Croaker added a note in his Annals: "These sisters had been seriously nasty. Hika may have fallen to friendly fire".[1] Guust's cause of death is not specified but she was probably killed in combat against the enemy Rebel and Resurrectionist forces in Honnoh or elsewhere in the region of Aloe.
Guust Nolet's remains were buried by Outsweeper in the Company's Aloen graveyard, among the trees of an apple orchard located half a mile from the Company's compound. Of the 17 deceased Company members memorialized by Outsweeper whose inscriptions were recorded by Croaker, only Minkus Scudd featured in the Annals beforehand. The remaining 16 names, including Guust's, only appeared in the context of their epitaths.
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- ↑ Port of Shadows, ch. 18
| Deceased Black Company members memorialized by Outsweeper in Aloe |
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| Tudèle Lagleize • Sleepy Eyes • Fancy Prance • Guust Nolet • Hika Nolet Flea Hjalti • Drought • Ingrath Bat • Fade Shulabat Minkus Scudd • Otters • Three Apples • Wilt Copperhead • Sergeant Poor • Mistry • Bachimen |