# Miramon Lluagor — Figures of Earth character guide

> Miramon Lluagor in Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Miramon, dread Miramon Lluagor

**First appearance:** 0010-iii-ascent-of-vraidex

## Snapshot

A dread magician of the image-makers, moving unhumanly in the dark, who now aids and now opposes Manuel's designs.

## Who they are

Miramon belongs to the enchanters who contrive to impart life to clay figures, working by charcoal fire in a peculiarly perfumed obscurity while chanting the unfinished Rune of the Blackbirds. He is the craft's dread master, and his dealings with Manuel are as veiled as the gallery where he labors. Because Manuel's geas runs through image-making, Miramon stands at the hinge of the story's magic, alternately a resource and a threat to whatever figure Manuel means to make.

## Relationships

### [Dom Manuel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/characters/dom_manuel)

_rivalry_

A sorcerer and antagonist who competes with Manuel for power and control over magical forces, often opposing his goals.

### [Dom Manuel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/characters/dom_manuel)

_rivalry_

A sorcerer and antagonist who competes with Manuel for power and control over magical forces, often opposing his goals.

### [Dom Manuel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/characters/dom_manuel)

_rivalry_

A sorcerer and antagonist who competes with Manuel for power and control over magical forces, often opposing his goals.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as appearing in his role as Manuel's seneschal in the Popular Tales.

### [Figures of Earth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/figures-of-earth)

Mentioned as a powerful sorcerer whose influence looms over Manuel's early adventures.

### [I: How Manuel Left the Mire](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/i-how-manuel-left-the-mire)

Mentioned as the magician who has carried off the Count of Arnaye's daughter, living atop the gray mountain Vraidex.

### [II: Niafer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/ii-niafer)

Miramon Lluagor, the dread magician, dwells atop Mount Vraidex and sends serpents to destroy Manuel and Niafer.

### [IV: In the Doubtful Palace](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/iv-in-the-doubtful-palace)

Magician who gave Manuel the sword; laments love and marriage, warns of his half-brother.

### [XXXI: Statecraft](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/xxxi-statecraft)

Arrives with a grand retinue, negotiates the terms for Manuel's tenure of Poictesme, and reveals Horvendile as the overlord.

### [The Redemption of Poictesme](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/xxxii-the-redemption-of-poictesme)

Orchestrates the redemption by evoking a series of ten champions from discarded dreams and ancient powers.

### [Now Manuel Prospers](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/figures_of_earth_se/chapters/xxxiii-now-manuel-prospers)

Serves as Manuel's seneschal, half-amusedly, during his prosperous reign.

## Links

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