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'''Aihal''' is the ] of a ] in ]'s '']'' ] series. In most of the Earthsea books he goes by the Hardic name ''Ogion'' or ''Ogion the Silent''. |
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==Character Overview== |
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Aihal is a famous mage who trained ] on ].<ref>''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'', eds. Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 2000), page 180.</ref> |
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==Biography== |
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Aihal was born in Gont Port, the chief town of Gont Island. His father was a longshoreman and his mother a cook. His father died in an earthquake; his mother apprenticed him at the age of twelve to Elassen, a sorcerer in Valmouth, Gont. At the age of fifteen Elassen sent him to ] Island, where he was schooled as a wizard. Instead of receiving his staff there, however, he returned to Gont to work with Heleth Farseer, the wizard of Re Albi (the most important mage on Gont), then going under the name of ''Dulse''. Aihal's temperament was always compassionate but reserved, rarely speaking; therefore Heleth called him ''Silence''. Later on, after Aihal had left Heleth's service, he took the name ''Ogion'', which means "fir cone" in Hardic. |
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After Heleth Farseer gave up his life to calm a major ], Aihal became the Wizard of Re Albi in his place. Some ten years later he gave the young Ged his name, but after a short period of teaching him allowed Ged to attend school on Roke. Five years later, as reported in '']'', Ged returned when being chased by the "shadow" he unleashed as a student in Roke; Aihal counseled Ged to confront it rather than fleeing from it. In '']'', Ged promised to take ] to Aihal after helping her escape from Atuan where she had been a priestess in the Tombs. |
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Tenar was raised by Aihal as his ward, and later went on to become a farmer's wife. At the end of his life, as recounted in '']'', Aihal summoned Tenar to him, and gave her his name before he died, as she explained to the two wizards who came after his death: "His name was Aihal. His name in death is Aihal. In the songs he will be known as Aihal of Gont." |
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Aihal was a powerful mage. In '']'' the Master Windkey from Roke mentions, that Aihal has been offered to be Archmage, but had refused. |
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==Footnotes== |
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==References== |
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*{{cite book | title=] | last=Le Guin | first=Ursula K. | authorlink=Ursula K. Le Guin | publisher=Parnassus | location=Berkeley | edition=1st | year=1968}} |
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*{{cite book | title=] | last=Le Guin | first=Ursula K. | authorlink=Ursula K. Le Guin | publisher=Atheneum | location=New York | edition=1st | year=1971}} |
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*{{cite book | title=] | last=Le Guin | first=Ursula K. | authorlink=Ursula K. Le Guin | publisher=Atheneum | location=New York | edition=1st | year=1972}} |
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*{{cite book | title=] | last=Le Guin | first=Ursula K. | authorlink=Ursula K. Le Guin | publisher=Atheneum | location=New York | edition=1st | year=1990}} |
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*{{cite encyclopedia | encyclopedia=] | last=Le Guin | first=Ursula K. | authorlink=Ursula K. Le Guin | publisher=Harcourt | location=New York | year=2001 | title=The Bones of the Earth}} |
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*{{cite book | title=The Dictionary of Imaginary Places | last=Manguel | first=Alberto | publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company | location=New York | edition= | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-15-100541-9}} |
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