Alder (Hara)

Alder the sorcerer (whose True name is Hara) is a young man who appears at the start of the tale getting off a ship at Gont Port, bidden to go and seek the counsel of the Lord Sparrowhawk by the Master Patterner of Roke.

Alder is a simple sorcerer with the simple gift of being able to mend what was broken. The audience finds out that he once had a wife named Lily who was also a witch who died unexpectedly during childbirth. Just as they had been deeply in love with each other, so it came that Alder's grief was inconsolable. Very soon after that he started to dream of her calling to him from the lands of the dead over the low wall of stones. His dreams became more and more intense until they even threatened him whilst awake, and only the touch of another...