{"id":34838,"date":"2018-01-11T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34838"},"modified":"2017-12-27T15:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T02:33:43","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-boras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-boras\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In &#8220;The Wall Of Night&#8221; Series &#8212; Meet Boras"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12561\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?attachment_id=12561\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12561\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1.jpg 147w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/GatheringofLost-2Small1-98x150.jpg 98w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently, I resumed my <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-the-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cAbout the Characters\u201d<\/a> post series that focuses on the minor characters in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Of Night<\/a> series, because :<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around the main points of view.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<pre><em>~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013 \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a> simultaneously \u2014 in alphabetical order, of course!<\/p>\n<p>(The quotes, together with the covers, indicate whether the character appears in both or only one of the books.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30087\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2015\/09\/20\/sf-signal-giveaway-reminder\/gatheringoflost_new_small\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30087\" class=\" wp-image-30087\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_new_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_new_small.jpg 187w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_new_small-94x150.jpg 94w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Boras:<\/strong> priest of the Derai&#8217;s House of Adamant, from the Keep of Stone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Torl<\/span>un\u2019s stance remained assured as he met Asantir\u2019s gaze but the line of his mouth had tightened. He frowned sideways at his second-in-command. \u201cBoras, this is taking too long.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cSomeone is helping them,\u201d Boras said tightly. \u201cDeflecting our force.\u201d He swung around to glare at the Morning priests. \u201cIf it\u2019s you\u2014\u201d<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n~ from <em>\u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two, Chapter 28 \u2014 Border Crossing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I resumed my \u201cAbout the Characters\u201d post series that focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, 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 ~ from my Legend Award Finalist&#8217;s Interview, 2013 Initially, the series [&hellip;]<\/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-34838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34838","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=34838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34840,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34838\/revisions\/34840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}