About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Falath
Last year, I resumed my “About the Characters” post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, because:
“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”
~ from my Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night, but now I’m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost and Daughter of Blood simultaneously — in alphabetical order, of course!
(The quotes, together with the covers, indicate whether the character appears in both or only one of the books — and we’re back to a single entry today. 😉 )
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Falath: hound belonging to Rowan Birchmoon, of the Winter People
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The landscape surrounding the road was drear, with a thin, unhappy wind whistling across a stony plain and prying at Malian’s clothes. The cairn she had seen through the mist stood directly in front of her now, with the same hound lying before it. The beast lifted its head as she drew near—as though it, too, is in the dream, Malian thought, or can see me through it.
“Falath,” she said, and the hound whined, deep in his throat. “You must be an old hound now.” In the dream, she rubbed his head as she had when they were both younger and dwelt in the Keep of Winds. Falath thumped his feathery tail.
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 32 — Cockcrow
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They halted in another dip, several hundred yards out from the rockpile, before he and Nerys took their bows and proceeded on foot, circling wide to find a vantage point that overlooked both cairn and rockpile. The hound, Falath, was a pale glimmer beside the tomb, with no sign of anyone else present. But the fugitive could easily lie concealed among the rocks, even if Falath would not allow entry into the cairn.
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~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 39 — Traitor