{"id":43901,"date":"2026-06-25T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43901"},"modified":"2026-06-24T21:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:55:34","slug":"meet-rhike-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/meet-rhike-meet-the-minor-players-in-the-wall-of-night-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Rhike: Meet the Minor Players in The Wall Of Night Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason I feature minor players from The Wall of Night<\/a> series is because it\u2019s usually their major counterparts that hog the spotlight and garner discussion. Understandably enough, of course. \ud83d\ude09 Nonetheless I’m on record with my view that:<\/p>\n

…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

I said this in an interview when The Gathering of the Lost<\/em><\/a> was shortlisted for the Gemmell Legend Award<\/a> — which is a long book-and-author ago now, but I’m still of the same opine.<\/p>\n

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You may also have noticed that there are a lot of “minor” players in The Wall of Night \ud83d\ude09 — ranging from walk-on parts to supporting characters who may be reasonably important at a particular juncture, but don’t recur and reappear throughout the story like the major protagonists.<\/p>\n

By my (otherwise somewhat fluid) definition, too, a character that appears in this series will not be a “point-of-view” character. (Although there are some major players where the reader never gets their inner point-of-view either — Raven, for example.)<\/p>\n

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I commenced this series with the minor players from The Heir of Night<\/em>, but have continued on with those from The Gathering of the Lost<\/em> and Daughter of Blood<\/em>. I’m sure you know the drill by now, but yes, they appear in alphabetical order by name. \ud83d\ude00
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Rhike:<\/strong> a Darksworn agent, operating in the realm of Emer<\/span><\/p>\n

Malian recognized the figure that stepped out onto the terrace to search the night with a seeker\u2019s mindsweep… She remembered the long trailing robes and the head that was completely shaven except for the hank of plaited hair that curved down the right side of the androgynous face. Yet she was as sure, now, that the seeker was a woman as she had been in the white mists on Summer\u2019s Eve.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Two \u2013 Chapter 37, Adept
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…the strangers\u2019 conversation was a confusion of strange accents and incomprehensible discussion\u2014of enemies and magic, and a warrior immune to it who had sabotaged something called a coterie in some distant place. Occasionally, names would swirl to the surface, like debris in a flood, including Emuun and Rhike again…<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9\u00a0Daughter of Blood<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Of Night<\/strong> Book Three \u2013 Chapter 2, The Serpent Prince<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reason I feature minor players from The Wall of Night series is because it\u2019s usually their major counterparts that hog the spotlight and garner discussion. Understandably enough, of course. \ud83d\ude09 Nonetheless I’m on record with my view that: …it\u2019s the presence of the smaller characters that (also) \u201cmakes\u201d a story, creating texture around the […]<\/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-43901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-the-characters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43901","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=43901"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43911,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43901\/revisions\/43911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}