{"id":43077,"date":"2025-05-28T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43077"},"modified":"2025-05-26T20:06:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:06:38","slug":"meet-prince-ath-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/meet-prince-ath-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Prince Ath: Meet the Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just to run over the \u201cMeet the Minor Players\u201d 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

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 letter “P”…<\/p>\n

~*~<\/p>\n

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Prince Ath:<\/strong> head of the Athiri, one of the princely families of Ij, in the River lands<\/span><\/p>\n

Naia touched the falcon mask with one reverent fingertip…\u201cWhoever made these masks is a master, no question.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are certainly a noble gift,\u201d Tarathan agreed. \u201cThere\u2019ll be no avoiding Prince Ath’s masque now.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOr him,\u201d Jehane Mor pointed out with a faint smile, \u201cfor he at least will know exactly who we are.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As it happened, Prince Ath did not seem to notice them when they arrived in his ballroom and made no comment on the style and magnificence of their masks. \u201cAcquiring some manners, finally, to match the magnitude of his gift,\u201d said Tarathan…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 3, Revelry and Masks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just to run over the \u201cMeet the Minor Players\u201d 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 story, creating texture around the main points of view.\u201d ~ Helen Lowe (from my Legend […]<\/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-43077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077","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=43077"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43081,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43077\/revisions\/43081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}