{"id":34317,"date":"2017-05-25T06:30:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34317"},"modified":"2017-05-19T18:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T06:20:59","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-vern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/05\/25\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-vern\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 \u201cVern\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently I\u2019ve resumed my \u201cAbout the Characters\u201d posts that focus on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night<\/a> series \u2014 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

The feature is posting every second Thursday, alternating with A Geography of Haarth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vern:<\/strong> initiate priest, serving in the Temple of Night<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Night followed day, and the stars wheeled above the earth.\u00a0 In the Temple of Mhaelanar someone screamed in terror and despair.\u00a0 Voices shouted, feet ran, and a sinuous form slipped between darkness and shadow near the sanctuary where Korriya and Vern had taken refuge. \u00a0The sacred flame burned on the altar and cast the silhouette of a flat, narrow head onto the wall, reared above a robed body.\u00a0 The head and neck were armored with chitinous scales; the long, lidless eyes regarded the pair with contempt. “Blood demands blood,” it hissed. “Your puny defences will not save you, even here in the sanctuary of your great god.\u00a0 Where is your Defender now, servants of Mhaelanar?”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from The Heir of Night<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book One \u2013 Chapter 31, The Hidden Tower
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“…Vern was frowning at the Stone priests.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCommander,\u201d he said, the rough burr in his voice pronounced, \u201cthey\u2019re building power against us within their square. I can feel it.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are,\u201d Torlun mocked. His grin was sharklike. \u201cAnd what can you do about it, just the pair of you? … \u201d <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

…Var and Vern were both sweating, their expressions set. Trying to block whatever the Stone priests were doing, no doubt\u2014but as Torlun had said, there were only two of them to oppose sixteen…”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 28, Border Crossing<\/p>\n

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Recently I\u2019ve resumed my \u201cAbout the Characters\u201d posts that focus on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series \u2014 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 The feature is posting every second Thursday, alternating with A Geography of […]<\/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-34317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317","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=34317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34320,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34317\/revisions\/34320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}