{"id":40388,"date":"2022-07-14T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40388"},"modified":"2022-07-10T19:07:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T07:07:46","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-malisande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2022\/07\/14\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-malisande\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Malisande"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The About The Characters<\/strong><\/a> post series focuses on the minor characters in The Wall Of Night<\/strong><\/a> series, in large part because:<\/p>\n

\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

~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist’s Interview, 2013<\/p>\n

Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from The Heir of Night<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, but now I\u2019m continuing on with minor characters from both The Gathering Of The Lost<\/strong><\/em><\/a> and Daughter of Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u2014 in alphabetical order, by name, of course!<\/p>\n

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USA<\/p><\/div>\n

Malisande: <\/strong>a Normarch companion to Ghiselaine of Ormond
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She seemed to know a great deal, Carick thought, for a girl who worked in an inn. Although\u2014and here he took in details such as her smooth hands and confident manner\u2014he was suddenly less sure that was her role, even when she picked up his breakfast tray. \u201cDo you live here at the inn?\u201d he asked, testing the waters.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Malisande shook her head. \u201cI am one of the Countess Ghiselaine’s companions, from the Girls’ Dorter. But we are all here to learn, and Manan has the greatest knowledge of herbs and healing north of Caer Argent, maybe even in all Emer…So we all take our turn working with her.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Gathering of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 13, Normarch
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n

Yet Raven was not twisted, and Nherenor had not seemed so either, before he fell to his death. Even … Malisande, in Normarch\u2026 Ruthless yes, Malian thought now, and deadly, too, but I\u2019m not sure I would have called her twisted. … I have also killed, she reminded herself: on rooftops and battlements and far down in the darkness of Night\u2019s Old Keep<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three \u2014 Chapter 16, The Dark Hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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’s Interview, 2013 Initially, the series focused exclusively […]<\/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-40388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388","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=40388"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40395,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40388\/revisions\/40395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}