{"id":37614,"date":"2020-03-12T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=37614"},"modified":"2020-03-08T14:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T01:50:26","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-isperia-katran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/03\/12\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-isperia-katran\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters Meet The Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Isperia Katran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10984\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-2-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-2-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-2-98x150.jpg 98w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-2-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/GatheringofLost-2.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-the-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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>\u00a0\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<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Isperia Katran:\u00a0 <\/strong>a Master of the Academy of Sages in the River city of Ij<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Those around Prince Ilvaine stirred again, but he simply nodded, as if the heralds&#8217; formal words were no more than he had expected. \u201cAll these matters shall be addressed.\u201d A gesture drew in the woman to his immediate right, her face humorous and deeply lined above the gold robe of a Master Sage. \u201cMay I introduce my kinswoman, Isperia Katran, who is a Master of the Academy.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from \u00a9\u00a0<em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 8 \u2014 The Demonhunter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30129\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10769\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/GatheringoftheLost-mm-1.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-37614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614","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=37614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37619,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37614\/revisions\/37619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}