Meet Rhike: Meet the Minor Players in The Wall Of Night Series

The reason I feature minor players from The Wall of Night series is because it’s usually their major counterparts that hog the spotlight and garner discussion. Understandably enough, of course. 😉 Nonetheless I’m on record with my view that:

…it’s the presence of the smaller characters that (also) “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”

I said this in an interview when The Gathering of the Lost was shortlisted for the Gemmell Legend Award — which is a long book-and-author ago now, but I’m still of the same opine.

You may also have noticed that there are a lot of “minor” players in The Wall of Night 😉 — ranging from walk-on parts to supporting characters who may be reasonably important at a particular juncture, but don’t recur and reappear throughout the story like the major protagonists.

By my (otherwise somewhat fluid) definition, too, a character that appears in this series will not be a “point-of-view” character. (Although there are some major players where the reader never gets their inner point-of-view either — Raven, for example.)

I commenced this series with the minor players from The Heir of Night, but have continued on with those from The Gathering of the Lost and Daughter of Blood. I’m sure you know the drill by now, but yes, they appear in alphabetical order by name. 😀
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Rhike: a Darksworn agent, operating in the realm of Emer

Malian recognized the figure that stepped out onto the terrace to search the night with a seeker’s mindsweep… She remembered the long trailing robes and the head that was completely shaven except for the hank of plaited hair that curved down the right side of the androgynous face. Yet she was as sure, now, that the seeker was a woman as she had been in the white mists on Summer’s Eve.

~ from © The Gathering of the Lost, The Wall Of Night Book Two – Chapter 37, Adept
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…the strangers’ conversation was a confusion of strange accents and incomprehensible discussion—of enemies and magic, and a warrior immune to it who had sabotaged something called a coterie in some distant place. Occasionally, names would swirl to the surface, like debris in a flood, including Emuun and Rhike again…