<The reason why is I like croakers tone of voice, and even though alot of
things are very ambiguous, and sometimes do not have the level of detail
that one would want, it brought everything to a nice close, and was told
well.>
I also noticed that Croaker didn't comment that brothers had fallen without their story being recorded in the Annals. That thread runs all through BC. Two things could contribute to that...
1) Croaker is too old to "keep up." All during BC he was volunteering to stay where the action was. He hated the fact that he had to go on the hunt for Whisper and Limper because it kept him away from Lords.
2) Since learning that Khatovar was destroyed, the Annals became less about the company and more as a cathartic release for himself. In essence, the Annals became his personal diary.
Keep in mind, though, that what we are reading really isn't the Annals of the Black Company. I see the Annals as more of a daily report about the company with a little flair added by the Annalist. Remember an old episode of MASH when Radar was sending in his daily reports saying things like "Klinger valiantly came to the aid of his neighbors"? A true copy of the Annals would start and stop a lot. There would be details about a particular action, then many entries that said "Pickles went on turnip patrol today. Looks like we'll be eating potatoes for a month."
