{"id":38608,"date":"2020-11-12T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38608"},"modified":"2020-11-08T20:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T07:39:15","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-lady-sarifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/11\/12\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-lady-sarifa\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Lady Sarifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30087\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30087\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30087\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_new_small-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" 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: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><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 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>And&#8212;woo-hoo!&#8212;we&#8217;re now into the letter &#8220;L&#8221; and <em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em> is getting a look-in again. All good. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10984\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10984\" class=\"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\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Lady Sarifa:<\/strong><\/em> a demonhunter and servant of the magi, from the empire of Ishnapur<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;but it was the woman who slipped into the tent in his shadow who caught and held all eyes. She was clad in a full, deep red robe, her hair concealed by a coif of gold mesh worked with garnet and seed pearls. The face within the coif was quartered with crimson and charcoal paint, both eyelids and lips darkened to black. The effect was both rich and a little frightening, and Jehane Mor heard more than one indrawn breath, although no one spoke.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Demonhunter tricks, the herald thought, but did not risk sharing the thought with Tarathan. The Lady Sarifa\u2019s painted lids were half lowered, but Jehane Mor knew that she would be sensing the room.&#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","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-38608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608","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=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38610,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions\/38610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}