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Ged is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea realm. He is introduced...

Ged is the true name of a fictional character in Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea realm. He is introduced in A Wizard of Earthsea, and plays both main and supporting roles in the subsequent Earthsea novels. In most of the Earthsea books he goes by the Hardic name Sparrowhawk. Ged is the main protagonist in A Wizard of Earthsea in which he is a serious and arrogant boy. He subsequently matures during his adolescent apprenticeship and young adulthood into "one of the wisest and most powerful magicians in the land." He has red-brown skin . At birth Ged was given the child-name Duny. He was born on the island of Gont, as a son of bronze-smith. As a small boy, Ged had overheard the village witch, his aunt, using various words of power. The witch knew that using words of power effectively without understanding them required innate power, so she endeavoured to teach him what little she knew. After learning more from her, he was able to call animals to him. Particularly, he was seen in the company of wild sparrowhawks so often that his "use name" became Sparrowhawk. When Ged was twelve, the island was attacked by Kargs. This attack changed Ged's life forever. When the Kargads attacked, Ged,