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!

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Malisande: a Normarch companion to Ghiselaine of Ormond

She seemed to know a great deal, Carick thought, for a girl who worked in an inn. Although—and here he took in details such as her smooth hands and confident manner—he was suddenly less sure that was her role, even when she picked up his breakfast tray. “Do you live here at the inn?” he asked, testing the waters.

Malisande shook her head. “I am one of the Countess Ghiselaine’s companions, from the Girls’ Dorter. But we are all here to learn, and Manan has the greatest knowledge of herbs and healing north of Caer Argent, maybe even in all Emer…So we all take our turn working with her.”

~ from © The Gathering of The Lost, The Wall Of Night Book Two – Chapter 13, Normarch
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Yet Raven was not twisted, and Nherenor had not seemed so either, before he fell to his death. Even … Malisande, in Normarch… Ruthless yes, Malian thought now, and deadly, too, but I’m not sure I would have called her twisted. … I have also killed, she reminded herself: on rooftops and battlements and far down in the darkness of Night’s Old Keep

~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three — Chapter 16, The Dark Hours