{"id":36478,"date":"2019-02-28T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36478"},"modified":"2019-02-24T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T02:07:07","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-girvase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-girvase\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Girvase"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The\u00a0About The Characters<\/a>\u00a0post series focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/a>\u00a0series, in large part 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
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UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n
Girvase:\u00a0<\/strong>a knight in training, in the southern realm of Emer<\/span><\/p>\n
“A clangor shattered the morning\u2019s peace, followed by voices shouting. Still half asleep, Carick fumbled the shutters open, shading his eyes against the early sun. Girvase and Hamar were circling each other in the center of the yard, swords in hand, while their comrades yelled from the perimeter. Carick recognized Malisande and Alianor, looking down from the loft, while Raher, Audin, and Jarna stood just inside the gate. The two combatants continued to cut and thrust, their faces intense with concentration. When Carick leaned further out, he could see Ser Bartrand striding down the hill, with Col, the Master Archer, beside him.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
~\u00a0 from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 14 \u2014 Maister Gervon
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UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n
“The tune he whistled beneath his breath was from one of the Emerian songs of springtime love. For a few moments he could have been back in the small gray castle with Audin and Jarna working close at hand, while Girvase and Raher sparred in the yard and the damosels called out encouragement. “<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
~ from\u00a0\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 7 \u2014 Fire and Water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The\u00a0About The Characters\u00a0post series focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0The Wall Of Night\u00a0series, in large part 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 from\u00a0The 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-36478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478","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=36478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36481,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36478\/revisions\/36481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}