{"id":38697,"date":"2020-12-10T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=38697"},"modified":"2020-12-06T21:38:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T08:38:47","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-laer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-laer\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players in &#8220;The Wall Of Night&#8221; Series &#8212; Meet Laer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\" 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=\"154\" height=\"249\" 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: 154px) 100vw, 154px\" \/><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>Recently we&#8217;ve been traversing the letter \u201cL\u201d and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/a> &#8212; but although still in &#8220;L&#8221;, today the focus is back on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\" wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"251\" 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: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Laer:<\/strong>\u00a0 A Sea House weatherworker on the ship, <em>Che&#8217;Ryl-g-Raham<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Sea House marines, Kalan supposed\u2014but it was the figure to the first woman\u2019s left who held his attention. The man was tall, with the same twisted cables of hair as his companion, although his were mostly gray, framing a deeply weathered face. The breeze rippled the folds of his sea-green robe, the deep border a wave design in indigo and black. Power stirred, too, telling Kalan that he was in the presence of a Sea House weatherworker.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from \u00a9\u00a0<em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Three: Chapter 6 \u2014 The Pastry Thief<\/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-38697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38697","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=38697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38699,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38697\/revisions\/38699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}