About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In “The Wall Of Night” Series — Meet Marten
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 — in alphabetical order, by name, of course!
Currently we’re in the realm of “M”—and looking to see if it will match the number of entries for the “great plains of L.” 😀
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Marten: a guard and scout in the service of Normarch, in the southern realm of Emer.
Shortly before noon they finally caught up with Brania and her companions, waiting with Herun and Darin where the cart track joined the old northern road. “How old is it?” Carick asked as they joined them, thinking that it looked like a decayed version of the River’s Main Road.
“They say the road dates from the Old Empire,” the guard called Marten replied, when Raher and Ado both shrugged. “This was all settled country then, before the war and plagues that followed the Cataclysm.”
“Well,” Darin said dryly, “folk’re here again now. Outlaws mostly, from the looks of the old campsites, but fresher tracks, too, plenty of ’em, all through these woods.”
~ from © The Gathering of The Lost, The Wall Of Night Book Two – Chapter 21, The Old Road