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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: 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!

And although we are coming to the end of entries under “L”, today is “not this day!”

“Not this day.”

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Luin:  a page at the ducal court in Caer Argent (the capital of Emer.)

“Malian blinked at the brightness, taking in the few, brightly clad courtiers strolling on a lawn outside, and the halberdiers in ducal uniform at the far end of the gallery. … [She] … fished in her wallet for a coin and handed it to the page. “What’s your name?” she asked, pausing on the threshold while the halberdiers looked on, expressionless.

“Hirluin,” he said, slipping the coin inside his tunic rather than the wallet at his belt. “Because I was born on Lord Hirluin’s birthday—but everyone calls me Luin.”

“Or trouble,” a halberdier muttered, but Luin had already started back down the red-and-yellow hall, waving a cheerful farewell.

~ from © The Gathering of The Lost, The Wall Of Night Book Two – Chapter 35, Caer Argent