# Iranon — Short Fiction character guide

> Iranon in Short Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0064-the-quest-of-iranon

## Snapshot

A pale, slender minstrel who wanders the world singing of Aira, the marble-and-beryl city he insists he was born to rule.

## Who they are

Iranon drifts from Teloth to Oonai and beyond, trading songs of a lost golden city for bread and shelter, gathering friends like the boy Romnod who grows fat and forgetful beside him. He is beautiful, gifted, and utterly sincere, yet his listeners tire of his dream as they tire of him, and he moves on in ragged purple. His refusal to test his own legend against the world is the quiet tragedy that shapes the tale.

## In the story

### [The Quest of Iranon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_26_se/chapters/the-quest-of-iranon)

The protagonist, a singer and dreamer seeking his lost homeland Aira, who remains eternally youthful until his disillusionment.

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