About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Ilkerineth
Hokay, team, we’re well into 2020 now and back to our normal routine — although maybe not quite when it comes to what time this is posting! However, I thought it was time to resume the About The Characters post series. 🙂
As all regular followers will know, About The Characters 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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Ilkerineth: Prince of Lightning, a leader of the Darkswarm
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The other shrugged. “I never forget who my enemies are. Not that you’ll catch me disputing with Nindorith: I’m not a fool. Besides, it’s not my eyes that follow her every footstep, or darken every time they see her safe in Ilkerineth’s shadow.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 9 — Portside
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Tongues of lightning flashed out of a bruised sky, the wildfire flickering along a broken colonnade before splitting apart around a man’s tall figure. Dead leaves drifted to either side as the rift in the air closed, but no ripple disturbed the length of the newcomer’s surcote, white over blue-black mail, or the fall of his long hair as he passed beneath a crumbingarch and into an open court, bounded by twelve paired pillars.
~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Prologue