Mirar

Mirar is a fictional character in Trudi Canavan's Age of the Five trilogy, also known by his alternate personality's name of Leaird.

Early life

In Priestess of the White, Mirar is described as the legendary founder of the Dreamweavers, known for seducing women and his supposed death when Juran of the White crushed him underneath the remains of a Dreamweaver house. His alternate personality Leiard plays a large part; initially as Auraya's mentor and teacher, and later as the Dreamweaver Adviser to the White. The two begin a sexual relationship towards the end of the book. At the very end, however, Mirar learns that touching himself is much easier and less demanding. Leiard becomes known for the large collection of link memories of Mirar's that he possesses; this is revealed by dream-linking with his fellow immortal Emerahl to be the result of his traumatic near-death experience when Juran attempted to kill him. Subjugating his personality under the invented persona of Leiard, Mirar survives, crippled, and slowly heals over many decades to the point when Auraya is born.

Resurrection

Having reasserted himself as Mirar, the Dreamweaver remains in hiding from the White and Gods, until a moment of weakness in which he teaches Auraya, then of the White, a power of healing. His true nature seen through the mental connection by the goddess Huan, Mirar flees. Auraya pursues him, but could not kill him, allowing Mirar to escape to the safety of Emerahl and a cave nearby.

In Voice of the Gods, when Auraya is captured, Mirar keeps her sane by dreamlinking with her telling her about scroll of the gods, discovered by Emerahl. He tells her it reveals that all gods were once immortals, and all immortals were once human, that Gods do not have the power to take souls, and that Gods can be killed by surrounding them with six gods or immortals and draining all the magic out of a specific spot. This creates a void where the gods cannot live. The five gods in power had, with the help of a dead god, killed all the other gods, creating the voids. The sixth god had then written the scroll of the gods, and committed suicide.

In the conclusion to Voice of the Gods, Auraya, the Twins, The Gull, Mirar, and Emerahl, the only six immortals in existence (and therefore the most powerful sorcerers alive) surround the five gods, and create a void, trapping all five gods in the small bit of magic at the very center. Chaia, unwilling to live with the other four gods until magic has leaked back into the void, uses the last of the magic in the void, by gathering it to himself and transforming it into light. This completely drains the oasis of magic in the void, killing them. On the final page, Auraya kisses Mirar, supposedly to thank him for keeping her sane, but the kiss lasts long enough for them both to consider it romantic. It is hinted that they may pursue a relationship.

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