{"id":28155,"date":"2015-02-20T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T17:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=28155"},"modified":"2015-02-18T22:25:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T09:25:10","slug":"ruffians-and-roughnecks-the-villain-or-in-this-case-villainess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/02\/20\/ruffians-and-roughnecks-the-villain-or-in-this-case-villainess\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruffians And Roughnecks: The Villain—Or In This Case, Villainess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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credit: PJ Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n

Currently, I’m taking a word that means either a \u201cbad guy\u201d, e.g. ruffian or rogue, or a \u201crough diamond\u201d, such as\u00a0 a roughneck, and matching it with a character from my novels.<\/p>\n

As in the A Geography Of Haarth<\/a> series, each entry is accompanied by a relevant passage from the books, which could be drawn from one of the two Wall Of Night series<\/a> novels currently published, or my Kids\/YA standalone, Thornspell<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The definitions are taken from Merriam Webster Online, my current go-to dictionary when writing<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Villain:<\/strong> a deliberate evildoer or criminal<\/span><\/p>\n

Where would stories be without the villains of the piece, those cruel or malicious persons either\u00a0 involved in and\/or devoted to wickedness or crime—or in today’s case, Thornspell’s<\/em> <\/a>arch-villain(ess), t<\/span>he:<\/p>\n

Margravine zu<\/em> Malvolin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Margravine<\/p><\/div>\n

“The Margravine took a step closer, and he saw that her blue eyes had turned so dark they were black hollows in her face. \u201cClever,\u201d she repeated, still smiling, \u201cbut discourteous to abandon my hospitality when we still have business to discuss.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have nothing to discuss with anyone who traps and then imprisons me,\u201d Sigismund said, his voice rusted metal against her sweetness.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She widened her eyes at him, stepping forward again. \u201cSo hasty\u2014but can you be sure of that? What if I offered you peace in your father\u2019s kingdom, an end to the wars in the south?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Sigismund stared at her, thinking how long those wars had bled his country dry, absorbing the energy of its kings. \u201cIn exchange for what?\u201d he asked slowly.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Her smile deepened. \u201cSo you are interested,\u201d she murmured. \u201cI thought you might be. And the exchange I ask is such a little thing.\u201d She was watching him closely, and her voice crooned on a singsong note when she spoke again. \u201cSuch a little thing.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She was very close to him now, her perfume delicate yet dizzying, and Sigismund could feel the weave of illusion and magic. He blinked hard, trying to clear his mind. \u201cThen ask it,\u201d he said, his voice hard, and something dangerous flared in the hollowed eyes\u2014but was as quickly gone.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~\u00a0 from \u00a9 Thornspell,<\/em>\u00a0Chapter 9 \u2014 Substance and Shadow<\/p>\n

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Currently, I’m taking a word that means either a \u201cbad guy\u201d, e.g. ruffian or rogue, or a \u201crough diamond\u201d, such as\u00a0 a roughneck, and matching it with a character from my novels. As in the A Geography Of Haarth series, each entry is accompanied by a relevant passage from the books, which could be drawn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28155"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28228,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28155\/revisions\/28228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}