Aihal is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea fantasy series. In most of the Earthsea books he goes by the Hardic name Ogion.
Aihal is a famous mage who trained Ged on Gont.
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 a...
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Aihal is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea fantasy series. In most of the Earthsea books he goes by the Hardic name Ogion.
Aihal is a famous mage who trained Ged on Gont.
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 Roke 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.
After Heleth Farseer gave up his life to calm a major...
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