It’s been two months since my last “About The Characters” and (alternating every other Thursday) “A Geography Of Haarth” posts. But fear not, dear friends, followers, and gentil readers—or alternatively, be very afraid 😉 —because the normal post schedule resumes today.

If an excuse is needed for the two month hiatus, let it be that it has been the summer holidays here. Plus I have had tax stuff to do, which is no holiday at all, je vous assure.

Yet now, with no further ado, let us return to About The Characters, which focuses on 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.”

~ 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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Ghiselaine: Countess of Ormond, in the southern realm of Emer

“The young women rode as lightly as the squires, most with long braids trailing from beneath caps of leather or steel. Only the central rider was bare headed, sitting straight and slender in the saddle while the bell of her red-gold hair lifted in the breeze.

“Ghiselaine, Countess of Ormond,” Raven murmured, although Carick had already guessed: she sat amongst the other riders like a queen among her knights.”

~  from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 13 — Normarch
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“As in Emer, the knight gave little away, but Kalan was remembering how they had fought shoulder-to-
shoulder at midsummer, to prevent a Darksworn coterie from assassinating Ghiselaine of Ormond.”

~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 58 — Passage of Power