{"id":42748,"date":"2024-12-12T10:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=42748"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T21:36:20","slug":"meet-palla-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2024\/12\/12\/meet-palla-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Palla: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yep — we’re now in the realm of “P”! Characters beginning with, that is. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Just to run over the “Meet the Minor Players” drill it focuses on the minor (or more correctly, sometimes \u201cmore minor\u201d) characters in The Wall Of Night<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0series 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

~ Helen Lowe (<\/em>from my Legend Award Finalist\u2019s Interview, 2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

Welp, that’s a “long gal ago” interview now, but the principle still holds true — so without further ado, let’s meet (or remeet :D) Palla from Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

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

Palla:<\/strong> honor guard to the Earl of Blood, serving in the Red Keep<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve already had this out,\u201d Palla said. \u201cStand or fall, we\u2019ll do it together.\u201d But her shoulders were hunched and Kalan knew it must feel like being hurled off a precipice — from all it meant to be an honor guard one day, to exile from House and Keep the next.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 34, A Long Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep — we’re now in the realm of “P”! Characters beginning with, that is. \ud83d\ude00 Just to run over the “Meet the Minor Players” drill it 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 […]<\/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-42748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748","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=42748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42750,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42748\/revisions\/42750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}