Q&A Thursdays #15: Andrew’s Question

For a while now, I’ve been reprising a Daughter of Blood (and by extension The Wall Of Night) Q&A series that featured in 2019.

Today’s question came from Andrew and concerns the “black blades” that feature throughout the series. The black spear is the one first seen by Kalan in The Heir of Night, which reappears in Daughter of Blood.

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Andrew: Is there a difference between the “black blades”, which are swords, and the black spear?

Helen: The answer is that there may be, in terms of origi...