{"id":39253,"date":"2021-06-10T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39253"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T01:27:37","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-lien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/06\/10\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-lien\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Lien"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/about-the-characters\/\"><strong>About The Characters<\/strong><\/a> post series focuses on the minor characters in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\"><strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong><\/a> series, in large part because:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><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<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist&#8217;s Interview, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\"><em><strong>The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\"><em><strong>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\"><em><strong>Daughter of Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u2014 in alphabetical order, by name, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Currently, we\u2019re traversing the plains of \u201cL\u201d \u2013 which are \u201cgreat plains\u201d indeed. \ud83d\ude09<\/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;\"><strong>Lien:<\/strong> an assassin of Ij, a city on the River<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cWhat else is there, besides the owls?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>The listening silence returned. \u201cNothing,\u201d the assassin said at last. \u201cJust hay, and I&#8217;ve run a sword through that. I&#8217;ll go through this window and onto the roof, check that, too.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cNo need.\u201d The Master was crisp. \u201cLien and Miro have just gone over the roof of the house and can see the stable from there. They say it&#8217;s clear, too, so we must spread the net wider. I want this quarry found.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cThe night is not yet over.\u201d The Darkswarm warrior&#8217;s voice carried clearly to the three beneath the ivy. \u201cWe still have time.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from \u00a9 <em>The Gathering of The Lost<\/em>, <strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 5, The Guild House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The About The Characters post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series, 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 [&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-39253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39253","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=39253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39254,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39253\/revisions\/39254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}