{"id":42587,"date":"2024-10-10T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42587"},"modified":"2024-10-06T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T06:11:20","slug":"meet-orn-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/10\/10\/meet-orn-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Orn: Meet The Minor Players In \u201cThe Wall Of Night\u201d Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30129\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30129\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30129\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA-94x150.jpg 94w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/GatheringofLost_New_USA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA: Current cover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re back on alphabetical track this month, with Orn following Onnorin&#8230; \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>As those who know, know well, this series focuses on the minor (or more correctly, sometimes \u201cmore minor\u201d) characters in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\"><strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0series 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>\u00a0Legend Award Finalist\u2019s Interview, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Initially, the series focused exclusively on characters from\u00a0<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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\"><em><strong>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\"><em><strong>Daughter of Blood<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 in alphabetical order, by name, of course!<\/p>\n<p>Currently, we&#8217;re in the Marvelous Realm of \u201cO\u201d, hence:<\/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>Orn:<\/strong> A Swarm warrior, brother to <a style=\"color: #003366;\" href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/04\/18\/about-the-characters-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series-meet-nirn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nirn<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">&#8220;A taller figure stepped through in his wake and moved to stand against the wall, away from the light that flared across a steel helm fashioned into the likeness of some fantastic bird of prey. He wore armor, too, Jehane Mor noted, and like the helm it was in a style she had seen before.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #003366;\">\u201cDarkswarm.\u201d Tirorn breathed the single word into her ear.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ from \u00a9\u00a0<em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>,\u00a0<strong>The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 5, The Guild House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re back on alphabetical track this month, with Orn following Onnorin&#8230; \ud83d\ude00 As those who know, know well, this series focuses on the minor (or more correctly, sometimes \u201cmore minor\u201d) characters in The Wall Of Night\u00a0series because: \u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around [&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-42587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587","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=42587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42591,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42587\/revisions\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}