{"id":40834,"date":"2023-02-16T06:30:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=40834"},"modified":"2023-02-08T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:13:53","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-mykon-ambard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/02\/16\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-mykon-ambard\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Mykon Ambard"},"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><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>Currently we&#8217;re still traversing the letter \u201cM\u201d, but I&#8217;m &#8220;pretty sure&#8221; this is the penultimate entry. \ud83d\ude00<\/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>Mykon Ambard:<\/strong> envoy from the Assassin&#8217;s Guild to the Conclave of Ij, on the River; nephew to the prince of the House of Ilvaine<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u201cWhat does it matter what some commander or other does on the Derai Wall?\u201d Mykon Ambard demanded. \u201cWe have more than enough to concern us here in Ij.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>\u00a0\u201cEspecially this morning,\u201d murmured the prince. \u201cBut still\u2014a Master must know something of the world around him.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>Mykon Ambard looked as though he would like to argue, but before he could speak, Leto Ilvaine dashed up on a fine dun courser. \u201cThe column is ready for you to join it, my prince.\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 10, A Pebble Falls<\/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-40834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834","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=40834"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40837,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40834\/revisions\/40837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}