So here it is, our bonus Character feature: enjoy!<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
Character Feature: Rowan Birchmoon, the Winter Woman
\n<\/span><\/h3>\nA Guest Post by Andrew Robins<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"UK\/Aus\/NZ\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/bigheirofnightMMUK1-190x300.jpg\")
<\/a>UK\/Aus\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
I was inspired to write this addition to \u201cThe Wall of Night\u201d Character Series when I read Paul Weimer’s great post on Myr, AKA the Lady Mouse<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nPaul portrayed Myr as a woman who was out of her place, and in an environment where her differences from those around her meant that she was forced to deal with daily hostility and constant suspicion.<\/span><\/p>\nThis description reminded me of another character who incidentally was one of my favourites from the first book in the series: Rowan Birchmoon\u00a0 – the Winter Woman.
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\n Like Myr, Rowan is out of her place. She is consort to the Earl of Night, and living amongst a people who are alien to her. Some of the Derai she deals with day to day value her, but to most she is and always will be an outsider whom they suffer to live amongst them only out of respect for their Earl.<\/span><\/p>\nRowan is also a person who is not obviously strong, or powerful. As it happens she can fight, and she is brave, but she is not someone you would describe as a warrior. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"USA\"](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_new_small-186x300.jpg\")
<\/a>USA<\/p><\/div>\n
In some ways it would be easy to see Rowan as a woman who is defined by the love that she has for Tasarion, the Earl of Night. This love is real and living, and it shines through the first half of The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>. But if you have read the first book, you know there is much more to Rowan, and her role on the Wall than her love for the Earl.<\/span><\/p>\nRowan has strength of the kind that allows her to remain warm, human and engaged even as she struggles with hard choices and great responsibilities. She is also a character who despite appearing to be at times passive, is definitely following her own path and remaining true to herself and her people.<\/span><\/p>\nHopefully readers of this post will agree that these ladies, Winter and Mouse, are pivotal characters in the series — perhaps unexpectedly so in the case of Rowan Birchmoon. <\/span><\/p>\nBoth are also strong in ways we don\u2019t necessarily expect \u2013 at least when we\u00a0 first meet them. And both are characters who are defined by strength of Character \u2013 which they show in abundance when the chips are down. Which as readers know is a regular occurrence on the Wall of Night.<\/span><\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
About Andrew Robins:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n![\"Andrew](\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/058a-112x150.jpg\")
<\/a>Andrew\u00a0 is a long time reader \u2013 and sometime reviewer \u2013 of science fiction, fantasy and history. People pay him to test stuff, which most of the time is more fun than it has any right to be.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nTo check out Andrew\u2019s book reviews, see \u201cBook Reviews for \u2018on Anything, Really”<\/a> in the right-hand side bar. To read the Game Log, 58 Eridani, you can find all the entries here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\u2014<\/p>\n
Thank you, Andrew, for providing a fine concluding post to this Character mini-series. 🙂<\/p>\n
Readers, if you have questions or want to talk with Andrew about the post, you can do so by leaving a comment below.
\n.<\/span><\/p>\nTo read the three preceding posts, click on:<\/p>\n
Ser Raven \u2014 International Man Of Mystery<\/a><\/h4>\nMeet Myr, AKA the Lady Mouse<\/a><\/h4>\nJune Young Features A Band of Brothers \u2014 & Shares A Wishlist<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introduction: Over the past few weeks I’ve been hosting a guest post series in which The Wall Of Night series readers feature a favourite character in the series. Each post has been wonderfully different, so when Andrew asked if he could contribute a post as well, how could I say no? So here it is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-the-characters","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105","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=33105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33115,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions\/33115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/a>UK\/Aus\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
I was inspired to write this addition to \u201cThe Wall of Night\u201d Character Series when I read Paul Weimer’s great post on Myr, AKA the Lady Mouse<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Paul portrayed Myr as a woman who was out of her place, and in an environment where her differences from those around her meant that she was forced to deal with daily hostility and constant suspicion.<\/span><\/p>\n This description reminded me of another character who incidentally was one of my favourites from the first book in the series: Rowan Birchmoon\u00a0 – the Winter Woman. Rowan is also a person who is not obviously strong, or powerful. As it happens she can fight, and she is brave, but she is not someone you would describe as a warrior. <\/span><\/p>\n USA<\/p><\/div>\n In some ways it would be easy to see Rowan as a woman who is defined by the love that she has for Tasarion, the Earl of Night. This love is real and living, and it shines through the first half of The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>. But if you have read the first book, you know there is much more to Rowan, and her role on the Wall than her love for the Earl.<\/span><\/p>\n Rowan has strength of the kind that allows her to remain warm, human and engaged even as she struggles with hard choices and great responsibilities. She is also a character who despite appearing to be at times passive, is definitely following her own path and remaining true to herself and her people.<\/span><\/p>\n Hopefully readers of this post will agree that these ladies, Winter and Mouse, are pivotal characters in the series — perhaps unexpectedly so in the case of Rowan Birchmoon. <\/span><\/p>\n Both are also strong in ways we don\u2019t necessarily expect \u2013 at least when we\u00a0 first meet them. And both are characters who are defined by strength of Character \u2013 which they show in abundance when the chips are down. Which as readers know is a regular occurrence on the Wall of Night.<\/span><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n To check out Andrew\u2019s book reviews, see \u201cBook Reviews for \u2018on Anything, Really”<\/a> in the right-hand side bar. To read the Game Log, 58 Eridani, you can find all the entries here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014<\/p>\n Thank you, Andrew, for providing a fine concluding post to this Character mini-series. 🙂<\/p>\n Readers, if you have questions or want to talk with Andrew about the post, you can do so by leaving a comment below. To read the three preceding posts, click on:<\/p>\n Introduction: Over the past few weeks I’ve been hosting a guest post series in which The Wall Of Night series readers feature a favourite character in the series. Each post has been wonderfully different, so when Andrew asked if he could contribute a post as well, how could I say no? So here it is, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,51,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-my-books","category-about-the-characters","category-guest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105","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=33105"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33115,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33105\/revisions\/33115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n.<\/span><\/span>
\n Like Myr, Rowan is out of her place. She is consort to the Earl of Night, and living amongst a people who are alien to her. Some of the Derai she deals with day to day value her, but to most she is and always will be an outsider whom they suffer to live amongst them only out of respect for their Earl.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>About Andrew Robins:<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n
<\/a>Andrew\u00a0 is a long time reader \u2013 and sometime reviewer \u2013 of science fiction, fantasy and history. People pay him to test stuff, which most of the time is more fun than it has any right to be.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\n.<\/span><\/p>\nSer Raven \u2014 International Man Of Mystery<\/a><\/h4>\n
Meet Myr, AKA the Lady Mouse<\/a><\/h4>\n
June Young Features A Band of Brothers \u2014 & Shares A Wishlist<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"