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Tracker was a fierce and mysterious fighter encountered in The White Rose. He and his strange hound had horrible origins, but he would become a valuable ally of the Black Company during their time in service to Darling and her New White Rose Rebellion against the Lady's Empire.

The White Rose[]

As he was first seen, Tracker appeared to be a tall and very muscular man of about 30 years of age. Accompanied by a loyal hound called Toadkiller Dog, he entered the Plain of Fear as a courier from the west to deliver a package to Croaker at the Hole. Although he was a complete stranger, Tracker quickly earned the trust of Darling, Elmo, and the Lieutenant. However, Croaker was rattled by the man.

Tracker was chosen to ride the windwhale which brought select members of the Black Company for their operation to sack the Limper's military compound just outside the city of Rust. When the group was besieged there, Tracker demonstrated his superhuman archery skills, calmly shooting down many Imperials despite the impossible distance between them. He and the dog were in the rearguard during the withdrawal, however only Tracker boarded the windwhale for the flight home. He became deeply depressed when separated from the hound.

The duo was reunited in the Plain of Fear, and they accompanied Croaker, One-Eye, and Goblin during their undercover mission to the Barrowland. During their flight out of the Plain on the back of a windwhale, they were engulfed by a frightening change storm. This supernatural weather phenomenon briefly revealed Tracker's true form: "something demonic, vaguely apelike yet certainly much more [...] from an artist's or sorcerer's nightmares". But his disguise was restored after the storm disappeared, and the Company men did not understand what they had witnessed. Later, after they were all captured and imprisoned by the Eternal Guard, Tracker was separated from his dog and became violent. He badly injured several Guardsmen with his bare hands. The group broke out and spent weeks in hiding in the Great Forest. Tracker and the dog attacked and wounded one of the new Taken by themselves. Croaker and the comatose Raven were eventually captured, but the rest of the group returned to the Company's headquarters, the Hole.

Back on the Plain of Fear, the true forms of Tracker and Toadkiller Dog were exposed by Father Tree, and they were revealed to be the Dominator's demons who had escaped from the Barrowland months earlier because of Raven's ineptitude. Toadkiller Dog attempted to maul the Lady, his master's nemesis, but was driven away by Father Tree. Moments later, the Tree stripped away Tracker's loyalty to the Dominator and replaced it with loyalty to the Tree. Tracker remained with the group after Darling and the Lady established a truce and an alliance against the Dominator.

Later, back in the Barrowland, Tracker dutifully carried the Tree's son, the Sapling, and plants it atop the Great Barrow in an effort to arrest the Dominator's escape. During the Battle of the Barrowland, Tracker fights in hand-to-hand combat against the Dominator. Despite sustaining vicious wounds, he kept his former master within Darling's null, where the Dominator could not utilize any of his unbeatable sorcery. Just before the Dominator was hacked to pieces, he mauled Tracker to death. Croaker wrote in his Annals that he believed Tracker died happy, having helped eliminate the Tree's enemy.

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