{"id":36904,"date":"2019-08-15T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36904"},"modified":"2019-08-10T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T05:11:04","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-hirn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/08\/15\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-hirn\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d series \u2014 Meet Hirn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30087\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><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\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-the-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">About The Characters<\/a>\u00a0post series focuses on the minor characters in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Of Night<\/a>\u00a0series, in large part 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<\/pre>\n<p>Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0<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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>\u00a0simultaneously \u2014 in alphabetical order, of course!<\/p>\n<p>(The quotes, together with the covers, indicate the books in which the character appears.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12561\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><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\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Hirn:<\/strong> of Hillholt, an Emerian Hill chieftain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">The chieftain called Hirn took the cup and drank, before passing it to the woman. Both chieftains placed their lips on the same place where Falk had drunk, and after Hawk, the cup was passed around to each of their followers in turn. \u201cWe seek Normarch&#8217;s aid, Lord Castellan.\u201d Hirn waited until the cup was handed back to Lord Falk before speaking again. \u201cWe call on the bond sworn between Oak and Hill, when your foster brother, the Duke, first came into his power.\u201d<\/span> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from\u00a0<em>\u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 17 \u2014 Oak and Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Interview, 2013 Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0The Heir [&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-36904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904","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=36904"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36907,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions\/36907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}