{"id":36401,"date":"2019-01-31T06:30:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36401"},"modified":"2019-01-24T21:53:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T08:53:49","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-ghiselaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-ghiselaine\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Ghiselaine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s been two months since my last “About The Characters<\/a>” and (alternating every other Thursday) “A Geography Of Haarth<\/a>” posts. But fear not, dear friends, followers, and gentil readers—or alternatively, be very afraid \ud83d\ude09 —because the normal post schedule resumes today.<\/p>\n

If an excuse is needed for the two month hiatus, let it be that it has been the summer holidays here. Plus I have had tax stuff to do, which is no holiday at all, je vous assure.<\/p>\n

Yet now, with no further ado, let us return to About The Characters, which 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
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist's Interview, 2013<\/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 the books in which the character appears.)<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n
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UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
Ghiselaine:<\/strong> Countess of Ormond, in the southern realm of Emer<\/span><\/p>\n
“The young women rode as lightly as the squires, most with long braids trailing from beneath caps of leather or steel. Only the central rider was bare headed, sitting straight and slender in the saddle while the bell of her red-gold hair lifted in the breeze.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cGhiselaine, Countess of Ormond,\u201d Raven murmured, although Carick had already guessed: she sat amongst the other riders like a queen among her knights.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
~\u00a0 from \u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 13 \u2014 Normarch
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n
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UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
“As in Emer, the knight gave little away, but Kalan was remembering how they had fought shoulder-to-<\/span><\/em>
\nshoulder at midsummer, to prevent a Darksworn coterie from assassinating Ghiselaine of Ormond.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
~ from\u00a0\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 58 \u2014 Passage of Power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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