{"id":30792,"date":"2015-12-17T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T17:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=30792"},"modified":"2015-12-16T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T08:47:14","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-nesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/17\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-nesta\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Nesta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the Prologue to Daughter of Blood<\/em>\u00a0<\/a> now unveiled on SF Signal, publication day is beginning to feel close<\/em>\u00a0 \u2014 and that makes it even more fun to spend some time with characters from The Wall Of Night <\/a>series, in the same way I featured worldbuilding in A Geography Of Haarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been focusing on minor players for now, because: \u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around the main points of view.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

This week’s character is: —<\/p>\n

Nesta:<\/strong>\u00a0 a maid in the household of Malian of Night<\/span><\/p>\n

“Nesta, the most senior of the maids, caught Malian’s eye as she opened her mouth to complain, and Malian immediately shut it again. Nesta came of a family that had served the Earls of Night for long generations, and she held views on the value of discipline, tradition and truancy that were remarkably similar to those of Malian’s father. “<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Heir Of Night<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book One, Chapter 1 \u2014 The Keep of Winds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Prologue to Daughter of Blood\u00a0 now unveiled on SF Signal, publication day is beginning to feel close\u00a0 \u2014 and that makes it even more fun to spend some time with characters from The Wall Of Night series, in the same way I featured worldbuilding in A Geography Of Haarth. I\u2019ve been focusing on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792","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=30792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30794,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30792\/revisions\/30794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}