{"id":41867,"date":"2024-01-11T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41867"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T08:25:47","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-nhenir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-nhenir\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Nhenir"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been seven weeks since I last pasted on About the Characters<\/strong>\u00a0 \u2014 my only excuse is getting sandbagged by the end-of-year and taking my eye off the \u201c\u2026on Anything, Really\u201d<\/em><\/a> ball. Mea culpa!<\/p>\n

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As you (almost certainly) know, the About The Characters<\/strong><\/a> 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\u2019s Interview, 2013<\/span><\/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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Starting where things left off before the unintended hiatus, we’re still in “N” and today’s character is not a living being, but a sentient artefact.<\/p>\n

Dear readers, I give you: —
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Nhenir:<\/strong>\u00a0 aka the Moon-bright Helm, one of the three legendary arms of Yorindesarinen, the Derai’s greatest hero<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not the eyes.\u201d The voice of Nhenir, the legendary helm that had once belonged to Yorindesarinen, the greatest of all Derai heroes, was a mixture of light and dark, speaking into Malian’s mind. \u201cYour inner awareness must be open: you must learn to eat the dark lest it eat you.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Prologue
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The armring was silver fire, and she knew that Nhenir, the moon-bright helm, would be as she had first seen it: black adamantine steel decorated with pearl and silver, with the phoenix wings swept up to either side and wrapped about the casque. Malian lowered the visor that was shaped into the dawn eyes of Terennin over her own, so no glamour or working born of power would cloud her vision, and closed both hands around the sword\u2019s hilt, raising it high.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Epilogue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been seven weeks since I last pasted on About the Characters\u00a0 \u2014 my only excuse is getting sandbagged by the end-of-year and taking my eye off the \u201c\u2026on Anything, Really\u201d ball. Mea culpa! As you (almost certainly) know, the About The Characters series focuses on the minor characters in The […]<\/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-41867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867","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=41867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41872,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41867\/revisions\/41872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}