{"id":35841,"date":"2018-08-16T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=35841"},"modified":"2018-08-13T22:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T10:50:55","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-emeriath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2018\/08\/16\/about-the-characters-meet-emeriath\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters \u2014 Meet Emeriath"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Art by Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n

Last year, I resumed my\u00a0\u201cAbout the Characters\u201d<\/a>\u00a0post series that focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/a>\u00a0series, because:<\/p>\n

\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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~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013 \r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0The Heir of Night<\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both\u00a0The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>\u00a0simultaneously \u2014 in alphabetical order, of course!<\/p>\n
(The quotes, together with the covers, indicate whether the character appears in all or only one of the books.)<\/p>\n
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Emeriath:<\/strong> a figure out of Derai legend, associated with the hero, Kerem the Dark Handed<\/span>
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Malian\u2014looking from the corner of her eye\u2014saw that even the gray-clad heralds were leaning forward as the minstrel waited, holding the hall in his silence.\u00a0 Then his hand touched the strings and the golden voice soared, sweeping them into the old, old tale of Kerem the Dark Handed and Emeriath of Night.\u00a0 Kerem was one of the elder heroes of the Derai, a solitary hunter and warrior who wreaked great havoc amongst the Swarm and rescued Emeriath from the Maze of Fire.\u00a0 It was a dark story, like all the great hero tales…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
~\u00a0from \u00a9 The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 2 \u2014 Heralds Of The Guild
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\u201cI wish,\u201d she began, and then fell silent herself. The nightingale, which had been quiet for some time, was singing again and now the old Derai sorrow was all she heard of its song:\u00a0 Kerem the Dark Handed and Emeriath; Xeria\u2019s grief for Tasian; Yorindesarinen dying alone, her body<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
hacked and riven, with the Chaos Worm\u2019s venom racking her veins. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
~ from\u00a0\u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 46 \u2014 Moonset
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.<\/em>..the face that stooped over Myr’s was undoubtedly a woman\u2019s, even if the eyes were as sorrowful as the crow\u2019s, gazing down on her from the sundered web. \u201cWho?\u201d she tried to ask, and was glad the pain had grown remote again as the darkness pressed close.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\u201cEmeriath,\u201d the stranger said, so perhaps Myr had managed the question after all. Emeriath, she thought, from the heart of one of the old, dark hero tales: a lady of Night who had been captured by the Swarm. Together with Kerem, who came to her rescue, she had trodden the Maze of Fire and escaped.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
~ from\u00a0\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 55 \u2014 The Crow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last year, I resumed my\u00a0\u201cAbout the Characters\u201d\u00a0post series that focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night\u00a0series, 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’s Interview, 2013 Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters […]<\/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-35841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841","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=35841"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35864,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35841\/revisions\/35864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}