{"id":40776,"date":"2023-01-12T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40776"},"modified":"2023-01-11T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T09:53:31","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-murn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/01\/12\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-murn\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In &#8220;The Wall Of Night&#8221; Series &#8212; Meet Murn"},"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 <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><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist\u2019s Interview, 2013<\/span><\/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>And I &#8220;think&#8221; the end may be nigh in terms of the letter \u201cM\u201d! \ud83d\ude09<\/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>Murn:<\/strong> secretary to Lord Nimor, the Sea House envoy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\">.<em>..the activity\u2014and curses\u2014around the foundered vehicle were not a repair attempt. Instead, the Sea Keepers were endeavoring to prevent the wagon tipping the rest of the way into the riverbed and smashing apart, while they removed its contents. These appeared to be necessities for the road, together with personal possessions, which were being ferried to waiting mules. &#8230;\u201cThe envoy\u2019s state robes.\u201d Murn, Nimor\u2019s secretary, winked as they helped him with a particularly unwieldy sailbag&#8230;although Kalan thought the bag was too heavy for clothes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from \u00a9 <em>Daughter of Blood<\/em>, <strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 40, Shadow Moon<\/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\u2019s 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-40776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776","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=40776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40778,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40776\/revisions\/40778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}