Did Luis Royo Ever Draw Black Woman

Luis Royo is a well-known fantasy artist whose art appears on the covers of an impressive number of foreign-language translations of the Black Company series. None of his artwork was commissioned specifically for any Black Company edition; rather, the covers shown below had all originally appeared on prior, unrelated fantasy novels and were selected afterward for the Black Company via licensing arrangements. As such his covers do not depict any specific scenes from the series.

One of Royo's artworks on the cover of a Lithuanian Black Company edition. The same artwork also appears (albeit reversed and cropped) on at least three Russian editions.

Royo's art appears on the covers of eight of the Russian translations published by ACT (AST) for the "Dragon Age Chronicles" series and the subsequent reprints shown below; four of the Lithuanian covers; and the Spanish editions of the three Books of the North (and the corresponding omnibus) that were published by La Factoría de Ideas.

1 Russian
- 1.1 AST Dragon Age Chronicles
  - 1.1.1 The White Rose
  - 1.1.2 Shadow Games
  - 1.1.3 The Silver Spike
  - 1.1.4 Dreams of Steel
  - 1.1.5 Bleak Seasons
  - 1.1.6 She Is the Darkness
  - 1.1.7 Water Sleeps
  - 1.1.8 Soldiers Live
- 1.2 AST Golden Fantasy series
- 1.3 АSТ Dragon Age 2
- 1.4 AST 4-book omnibus
2 Lithuanian editions
- 2.1 The Black Company
- 2.2 The White Rose
- 2.3 She Is the Darkness
3 Spanish editions
- 3.1 Novels
  - 3.1.1 The Black Company
  - 3.1.2 Shadows Linger
  - 3.1.3 The White Rose
- 3.2 Omnibus

Russian [ ]

Luis Royo's cover art featured in AST's Dragon Age Chronicles (Век Дракона Хроники / Vek Drakona Khroniki) series:

AST Dragon Age Chronicles [ ]

The White Rose [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона The White Rose 1997 front.jpg

Title: Белая Роза
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Данизля Смушковича (Danizlya Smushkovich)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1997
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-7841-0326-1 (ACT); 5-7921-0126-4 (TF)

Shadow Games [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона Shadow Games 1997 front.jpg

Title: Игра теней
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Дмитрия Старкова (Dmitry Starkov)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1997
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-7841-0351-2 (ACT); 5-7921-0142-6 (TF)

The Silver Spike [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона The Silver Spike 1997 front.jpg

Title: Серебряный Клин
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: М. Петрунькина (M. Petrunkin)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1997
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-7841-0727-5 (ACT); 5-7921-0144-2 (TF)

Dreams of Steel [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона Dreams of Steel 1997 front.jpg

Title: Стальные сны
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Е. Лихачёвой (E. Likhacheva) and Е. Прияткиной (E. Pleitkina)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1997
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-15-000379-4 (ACT); 5-7921-0143-4 (TF)

Bleak Seasons [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона Bleak Seasons 1997 front.jpg

Title: Суровые времена
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Дмитрия Старкова (Dmitry Starkov)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1997
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-15-000484-7 (ACT); 5-7921-0145-0 (TF)

She Is the Darkness [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона She Is the Darkness 1998 front.jpg

Title: Тьма (She Is the Darkness)
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Виталия Волковского (Vitaly Volkovsky)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 1998
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-237-00716-3 (ACT); 5-7921-0225-2 (TF)

Water Sleeps [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона Water Sleeps 2000 front.jpg

Title: Воды спят
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Беллы Жужунавы (Bella Zhuzhunava)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 2000
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-237-05205-3 (ACT); 5-7921-0278-3 (TF)

Soldiers Live [ ]

Russian series Век Дракона Soldiers Live 2001 front.jpg

Title: Солдаты живут
Page shown: Front cover
Author: Глен Кук (Glen Cook)
Language: Russian
Translator: Андрей Вадимович Новиков (Andrey Vadimovich Novikov)
Publisher: АСТ (AST) and Terra Fantastica
Pub date: 2001
Cover art by: Luis Royo
ISBN: Hardcovers: 5-17-007834-X (ACT); 5-7921-0412-3 (TF)

AST Golden Fantasy series [ ]

The gallery of 6 images below shows the covers of the Golden Fantasy series (Золотая серия фэнтези / Zolotaya seriya fentezi) which featured art by Luis Royo in the lower right-side portion. Additionally, the castle on the left of the cover of Water Sleeps is also by Royo. These were reprints of the editions of the Dragon Age Chronicles (Век Дракона Хроники / Vek Drakona Khroniki) series by the same publisher АСТ (AST) and their associated partners/subsidiaries, all shown above. While both series were hardcovers, the Golden Fantasy series presented the first 8 novels in 4 pairings, whereas Dragon Age Chronicles editions were individual novels only. Since Royo's artwork is the same as the predecessor Dragon Age Chronicles editions, only a gallery for his Golden Fantasy covers is shown here; however, the images may be enlarged and all edition-specific details are still available by clicking each image and selecting the "About" tab.

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi TWR SG pair 2000 front

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi TWR SG pair 2008 front

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi DS TSS pair 2000 front

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi BS SItD pair 2000 front

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi Water Sleeps 2001 front

Воды спят (Water Sleeps)
The castle on the left is also by Luis Royo

Russian series Zolotaya fentezi Soldiers Live 2001 front

АSТ Dragon Age 2 [ ]

The gallery of 5 images below shows the covers of the AST's Dragon Age 2 hardcover series (Век дракона 2 / Vek Drakona 2) which featured art by Luis Royo. They are repackaged editions of the same translations which had appeared in the publisher's Golden Fantasy hardcover series (Золотая серия фэнтези / Zolotaya seriya fentezi) as well as AST's older Dragon Age Chronicles hardcover series (Век Дракона Хроники / Vek Drakona Khroniki), all shown above. Since Royo's artwork is the same as the predecessor Dragon Age Chronicles editions, only a gallery for his Dragon Age 2 covers is shown here; however, the images may be enlarged and all edition-specific details are still available by clicking each image and selecting the "About" tab.

AST 4-book omnibus [ ]

AST (ACT) published two different hardcover omnibuses in 2008 which are reportedly identical except for the cover. One features the artwork of Luis Royo, shown below (the other is visible here). Each was a collection of the 3 Books of the North and also Shadow Games, which is an atypical arrangement. Subsequent omnibuses for the rest of the series were planned but apparently never published.

Russian 4 book hardcover series pod Dozory

Lithuanian editions [ ]