Meet Pha’Rho-l-Ynor: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series
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The “Meet the Minor Players” post features 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.”
~ Helen Lowe (from my Legend Award Finalist’s Interview)
Sometimes, though, the minor character may exist in the story’s past while shaping its present. And sometimes, the character may be not one, but two individuals.
Both circumstances that apply to Pha’Rho-l-Ynor, in Daughter of Blood.
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Pha’Rho-l-Ynor: A Sea House navigator, lost four hundred years before.
Pha’Rho-l-Ynor: A Sea House ship, lost four hundred years ago with all hands, including its navigator.
...he spoke the words that were fire in his throat. “…My mother was a weatherworker and navigator, called Pha’Rho-l-Ynor after the ship of the same name. Through her and the name I bear, I brought the essence of of Yelusin, once contained in the ship, Pha’Rho-l-Ynor, back to the Sea Keep.”
~ from © Daughter of Blood, The Wall Of Night Book Three – Chapter 61, Old Blood
So … is it fair to pronounce this “Fair Eleanor” in my head?
Ha-ha.:) Close! But “not quite.” It’s FAR-ro L’INN-or (‘formal’ Sea House pronunciation), but everyone just says FAR-ro LIN-or in everyday speech — running some components of words together and leaving others out, as we all do. 😀
I’ve been thinking about a “pronunciation” appendix at some point, as per Robert Jordan and Wheel of Time, so now we have the first entry. 😉
A pronunciation guide is always fun to see, but doesn’t always change how my brain “reads” it.
In the same way we “see” characters in our minds, so a subsequent casting for film or television may not quite gel, or even feel very wrong.:)