{"id":42374,"date":"2024-08-15T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42374"},"modified":"2024-08-14T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:36:21","slug":"about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-orcis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/08\/15\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-orcis\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Characters: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series \u2014 Meet Orcis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 <\/em>my 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

Currently we’re traversing the slopes of “O”, with the spotlight on some truly minor characters. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Orcis:<\/strong> soldier-priestess of the Derai Alliance’s\u00a0 House of Adamant<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Stars company\u2019s been sighted, sir.\u201d Rejoining them, Orcis resumed her Second\u2019s place on Torlun\u2019s right. \u201cThe sentries glimpsed whatever\u2019s lurking in the rocks again, so I dispatched an eight-squad to escort our guests in.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 Daughter of Blood<\/em>, The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 48, Watchtower<\/p>\n

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The About The Characters 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 on […]<\/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-42374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374","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=42374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42375,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42374\/revisions\/42375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}