Blind Michael (born "Mug Ruith") is a Firstborn of Oberon and the leader of the Wild Hunt. His consort is Acacia and their daughters are Luna Torquill and Ceres.[5] As implied in his name, Blind Michael cannot see through his own eyes. This does not limit him, however, because he can use the eyes of all the people and creatures around him.[6][7]
As a young man, Blind Michael was a great warrior and very close to his sister the Luidaeg. He did not judge the Luidaeg for the hard choices she had to make against her own kind.[6] He was idealistic and thought that creating his realm was doing the "right thing," although his intentions eventually turned toward destruction. He became a sadist, choosing to anchor his realm on the misery of terrified children.[8]
He likes bargains and games, and holds tightly to the rules much like a child would, more interested in playing fair than being kind.[7]
In the Series[]
The Fixed Stars[]
Michael and the Luidaeg prepare for battle against an army of changelings. He does not judge the Luidaeg for her actions in the war.
An Artificial Night[]
Blind Michael's Wild Hunt kidnaps Stacy Brown's children, a handful of Tybalt's court and Quentin's human girlfriend. She bargains with him to win them back, and his terms are fair though not kind. Toby manages to free all of them except for Karen, but when she takes children she did not explicitly bargain for he steals them back. He agrees to release them if Toby gives up her freedom to him; he intends to make her his new consort. Toby escapes with the Luidaeg's help and returns to kill Blind Michael, using both iron and silver daggers to make it stick.
Chimes at Midnight[]
Through one of the Luidaeg's blood memories, Toby sees Blind Michael as an infant being held by the Luidaeg.
Such Dangerous Seas[]
"The sun had barely set on the last day of [my seven-year truce with Eira] before my youngest brother, Mug Ruith, had come home from the hunt to find the entire line of his descendants slaughtered, the five children who would have grown into the Tlachtgae broken like the stones they sang to, their bones ground to powder beneath the hammering hooves of Eira's host. How he had grieved, my poor shattered baby brother, how he had wept and raged and screamed his fury to the sky.
"At the end of it all, he had gone to our Mother and bade her grant him vengeance, and she had said only that so long as her sister kept her hands clean, she must do the same, for the balance must not be broken. And he had set his name aside in answer, and walked from her Court, swearing never to return to her. He called himself Blind Michael now, and had carved a skerry of his own deep in darkness, where he sat and brooded, and wooed a daughter of Titania with the single-minded dedication of a young thing that has been hurt and sees no other choice."
Trivia[]
- Mug Ruith is a blind druid in Irish mythology.
References[]
- ↑ The Fixed Stars
- ↑ An Artificial Night Ch. 3, 5, 6
- ↑ Such Dangerous Seas
- ↑ The Fixed Stars
- ↑ A Red-Rose Chain
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Fixed Stars
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 An Artificial Night
- ↑ The Brightest Fell