{"id":34606,"date":"2017-09-28T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34606"},"modified":"2017-07-06T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:22:41","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-asha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2017\/09\/28\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-asha\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Asha"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This year, I\u2019ve resumed my \u201cAbout the Characters\u201d<\/a> post series that focuses 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
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Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a> and Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a> simultaneously \u2014 in alphabetical order, of course! (The quotes, below, are the key to whether the character appears in both or only one of the books.)<\/p>\n

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Asha:<\/strong>\u00a0 a Night honor guard in Garan\u2019s eight-unit<\/span>
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‘ The minstrel\u2019s hands fell quiet on the strings, and Garan wondered if everyone listening felt the same way he did: like a prince in one of the old stories, waking out of a trance. \u201cWhat song was that?\u201d Innor asked finally, and the golden head lifted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was composed by a minstrel of Ij who served a great lord, but fell in love with the lord\u2019s wife. The melody was written for her and has endured beyond many works that were grander and more imposing.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Simple tunes often did that, Garan reflected, like the marching airs of Night that were still sung by the guards, while the sagas and song-cycles of the great Derai heroes were only heard on special occasions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt would be pleasant to be loved like that,\u201d Asha said softly, and the others grinned, because Asha was renowned in the barracks for always wanting stories about romantic vows and doomed love. She had been promoted from the Keep garrison after the Swarm attack five years before, one of the few guards who had managed to survive the ambush that killed the former Keep Commander and most of his troop.’<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two, Chapter 28 \u2014 Border Crossing
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‘ Still smiling, Asha\u2019s fingers tapped out a tune on the tabletop. \u201cDoesn\u2019t this place creep you?\u201d she asked Garan, \u201cThe only voice you hear in this whole wing, outside our rooms, is the wind.\u201d ‘<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 13 \u2014 Watch and Ward<\/p>\n

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This year, I\u2019ve resumed my \u201cAbout the Characters\u201d post series that focuses 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 Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir […]<\/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-34606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606","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=34606"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34610,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34606\/revisions\/34610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}