{"id":42225,"date":"2024-06-20T06:30:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T18:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42225"},"modified":"2024-06-09T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T04:28:22","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-old-alth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/06\/20\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-old-alth\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Old Alth"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it\u2019s time \u2014 for another post in the About The Characters<\/strong><\/a> series, which 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><\/p>\n

~ from my<\/em> Legend Award Finalist\u2019s Interview, 2013<\/p>\n

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

Speaking of alphabetical, the series has finally exited “N” for “O”, where the first character is so minor he is only referred to, never seen — but a mention, is a mention!<\/p>\n

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UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n

Old Alth:<\/strong> the senior wyr pack handler in the Red Keep, principal stronghold of the House of Blood<\/span><\/p>\n

Although neither so large, nor as terrifying as Kalan\u2019s memories of the Hunt of Mayanne, the wyr hounds at the entrance to the Envoys\u2019 Quarter were tall, with sleek narrow heads. His muscles tightened as the pale, phosphorescent eyes turned his way. The sentries\u2019 eyes followed those of their hounds and one of them cleared his throat. \u201cSeems they recognize a Storm Spear; Old Alth said they would.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlth\u2019s our senior wyr handler,\u201d Jad explained, as the other sentry shifted stance.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n

~ from\u00a0\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 27, The Turnings of Fate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And it\u2019s time \u2014 for another post in the About The Characters series, which 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 […]<\/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-42225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225","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=42225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42226,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions\/42226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}