Alira

Mother of Kaerlin, Mira, and Thomel and widow of the man who first found Father's Shard at the edge of the Overlook. Alira was a tall, strong storyteller whose voice "built a world out of words" — the kind of woman who could quiet a room of arguing villagers by beginning a tale at half-volume. After her husband's disappearance into the Fray she kept his Shard hidden, raised her three children with her brother Uncle Edran, and spent her last years telling the children what she had learned from the Dreamers about the Pattern, the Fray, and the Shards before her death. She told the truth in fragments, the way she told stories — knowing the children would only understand the whole of it once she was gone. Her death in the Bellroot Vale is what set the siblings' quest in motion.