{"id":38005,"date":"2020-06-11T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T18:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38005"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T04:34:35","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-kair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/06\/11\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-kair\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet the Minor Players in \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Kair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29736\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29736\" 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 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<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Kair:<\/strong> a House of Fire cavalry commander<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Malian estimated at least fifteen gathered about the long, central trestle&#8230;the expressions regarding her ranged from neutral to openly assessing. &#8230; Resolution characterized their faces&#8230; but she only retained a handful of names: Valadan, tall and stern faced, was second-in-command of Fire, while Kair was a cavalry commander, and Daile had come from the Hedeld fort\u2026Learning them all was going to take time. A night\u2019s rest, Malian reflected wryly, should also help.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from \u00a9\u00a0<em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Three: Chapter 38 \u2014 Dawn Wind<\/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-38005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005","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=38005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38007,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38005\/revisions\/38007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}