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The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, in large part 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 the books in which the character appears.)

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Ileyra:  a herald of the Guild house in Ishnapur

Jehane Mor … looked around as the hall door opened and two heralds in the flowing grays of the Ishnapuri branch of the Guild walked in. They looked alike enough to be brother and sister, and their accents, when they spoke their good mornings, bore the lilt of the far-off southern empire.

Jehane Mor and Tarathan rose and bowed as one, speaking their names and Guild house in the formal style, and the Ishnapuri heralds replied in kind. “I am Ileyra,” the young woman said, “and this is Salan, my brother in both blood and the Guild.”

“ ‘It is a very long way from Ij to Ishnapur,’ ” Salan quoted gravely, then added, with the ghost of a smile, “but we came by sea, which made the journey swifter. And safer, since I understand the overland route still runs through very wild country.”

~  from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 2 — A Libation for Seruth