UK/AU/NZ

OK, now we’re really back into things, because it’s already time for instalment two in the “About The Characters” series, for 2025.

Just to run over the “Meet the Minor Players” drill it focuses on the minor (or more correctly—sometimes anyway—“more 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.”

~ Helen Lowe
(from my Legend Award Finalist’s Interview, 2013)

Parannis is one of those characters who has some prominence at a particular point in the series (Part IV, The Bride of Blood in Daughter of Blood, to be precise.) But as that is the only part and book to date in which he appears, he must still count as a minor player in the overall scheme of things.

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USA

Parannis: seventh child to the Earl of Blood, so known as a Son of Blood

… Parannis lounged directly opposite. Her half-brother exuded such sleek satisfaction that Myr suspected the whispers must be correct and he had been calling out those he considered enemies, killing or maiming them in secret duels.

He’s cruel, she thought, and repressed a shiver, certain the supposed enmity was just a pretext—and because she had learned young that Parannis was the brother to most actively avoid.

~ from © Daughter of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three – Chapter 20, Emissaries of Night