{"id":43775,"date":"2026-05-04T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43775"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:25:40","slug":"new-on-supernatural-underground-heroines-in-fantasy-3-brienne-of-tarth-adjunct-tavore-asantir-of-house-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/new-on-supernatural-underground-heroines-in-fantasy-3-brienne-of-tarth-adjunct-tavore-asantir-of-house-night\/","title":{"rendered":"New on Supernatural Underground: Heroines in Fantasy #3: Brienne of Tarth, Adjunct Tavore, &#038; Asantir of House Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hiatus is over and it&#8217;s heroines time again on the <a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supernatural Underground<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39734\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Supelogo_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This month I&#8217;m looking at Brienne of Tarth from <strong>A Game of Thrones<\/strong> (the books and HBO series), Adjunct Tavore from the <strong>Malazan Book of the Fallen<\/strong>, and Asantir from my own <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Wall of Night<\/strong><\/a> series.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4525\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4525\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4525\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gameofthrones-editposter-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gameofthrones-editposter-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gameofthrones-editposter-101x150.jpg 101w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/gameofthrones-editposter.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Game Of Thrones &#8211; the TV version<\/p><\/div>\n<p>All three are warriors and have both qualities in common and considerable differences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43776\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MalazanBookOfTheFallen-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MalazanBookOfTheFallen-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MalazanBookOfTheFallen-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MalazanBookOfTheFallen.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To find out where the disparities and similarities lie, click on:<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/supernaturalunderground.blogspot.com\/2026\/05\/a-year-of-heroines-in-fantasy-3-brienne.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heroines in Fantasy: Brienne, Tavore, and Asantir<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-30117\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/HeirofNight_New_USA.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hiatus is over and it&#8217;s heroines time again on the Supernatural Underground. This month I&#8217;m looking at Brienne of Tarth from A Game of Thrones (the books and HBO series), Adjunct Tavore from the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and Asantir from my own The Wall of Night series. All three are warriors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters","category-supernatural-underground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775","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=43775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43778,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43775\/revisions\/43778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}