{"id":43614,"date":"2026-02-12T06:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43614"},"modified":"2026-02-08T20:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:49:17","slug":"meet-rastem-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/meet-rastem-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Rastem: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall Of Night” Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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USA<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m sure you all know the \u201cMeet the Minor Players\u201d drill \ud83d\ude09 — i.e. that it’s a post sequence that features the minor characters in The Wall Of Night<\/strong><\/a> series. One of the reasons for posting this series is because the major characters always get featured and discussed, but: \u2014<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that (also) \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)<\/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

~*~<\/p>\n

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

Rastem:<\/strong> First to Queen Zhineve-An of Jhaine and leader of her Seven<\/span><\/p>\n

The escort warrior on the chestnut horse moved forward, close on his queen\u2019s right. His voice, when he spoke, was clear as the ring of sword on sword…\u201cI am Rastem, First of the Seven sworn to Queen Zhineve-An of Jhaine. I greet you, in the name of Jhaine and the Nine Queens.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 33, Maraval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sure you all know the \u201cMeet the Minor Players\u201d drill \ud83d\ude09 — i.e. that it’s a post sequence that features the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series. One of the reasons for posting this series is because the major characters always get featured and discussed, but: \u2014 \u201cI think it\u2019s the presence […]<\/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-43614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614","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=43614"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43618,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43614\/revisions\/43618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}