{"id":27973,"date":"2015-01-30T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27973"},"modified":"2015-01-26T21:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T08:19:50","slug":"ruffians-and-roughnecks-the-rogue-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/ruffians-and-roughnecks-the-rogue-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruffians And Roughnecks: The Rogue, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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credit: PJ Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n

Back in December, when I started this series<\/a>, I promised you that the scope would extend beyond the Wall Of Night <\/strong><\/a>series and include Thornspell<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which was my first novel published (even further back in 2008.)<\/p>\n

So today I thought we’d kick off for the new year with two characters from Thornspell<\/em><\/strong> to illustrate the “rogue.”<\/p>\n

Just to remind you what the series is all about, for each entry I’ll take a word that means either a \u201cbad guy\u201d, eg ruffian or rogue, or a \u201crough diamond\u201d, eg a roughneck, and match it with a character from my novels. As in the A Geography Of Haarth<\/a> series, each entry will be accompanied by the identification of the character and a relevant passage from the books.<\/p>\n

The definitions are taken from Merriam Webster Online.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

The Rogue, Part 1<\/h3>\n

Rogue:\u00a0<\/strong> a dishonest or worthless person, a vagrant or tramp<\/span><\/p>\n

So who better than:<\/p>\n

Fulk and Rafe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Another two men had joined their company before the night was out, and Sigismund suspected that they must be brothers, or at least close kin. They were both lean and ragged, with the red hair and blue eyes common in the western reaches of the kingdom, and said their names were Fulk and Rafe. In the days that followed they would never meet Sigismund’s gaze directly, looking away whenever he spoke to them. He suspected that they might easily turn cutthroat if opportunity arose and wished that it was customary for serving men to carry swords. The only weapon he carried openly was his servant’s dagger; and Quickthorn was trussed into a bundle on the bay horse’s back, together with his other arms. The horse-copers had bows and staves, which made Sigismund feel a little safer, but he took to sleeping lightly all the same.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~\u00a0 from \u00a9 Thornspell,<\/em>\u00a0Chapter 12 \u2014 The Road West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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