{"id":34852,"date":"2018-02-08T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=34852"},"modified":"2017-12-27T15:37:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T02:37:17","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-caril-sondargent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/02\/08\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-caril-sondargent\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Caril Sondargent"},"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>In 2017, I resumed the <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-187x300.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>Caril Sondargent:<\/strong> the Duke of Emer, an independent duchy in the Southern Realms of Haarth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;The foremost horseman was bareheaded, with a coronal around closely cropped hair, and Malian caught the glitter of gilded mail beneath a black jupon that bore the oak of Emer in gold across its breast. Caril Sondargent, Duke of Emer, she thought, noting the authoritative lift of the iron-gray head. The body beneath the black jupon had thickened with age, but he look looked powerful still, although well worn\u2014as you would expect of the man who had ruled Emer since he was seventeen, cementing the peace that was the last long battle of his father\u2019s and grandfather\u2019s wars.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em>~ from \u00a9 <em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two, Chapter 32 \u2014 Cockcrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, I resumed the \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 [&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-34852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852","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=34852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34854,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34852\/revisions\/34854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}