Dian Cécht fathered the healers Airmed and Miach, who together tended the wounded at the Well of Sláine. When Miach surpassed his father by restoring Nuada's arm in flesh, Dian Cécht slew him in jealousy, and Airmed gathered the healing herbs that grew from her brother's grave.
At Tara, Lugh assembled the champions of the Tuatha Dé Danann for war against the Fomorians — the Dagda to spy and negotiate, Ogma to lead the warriors, Goibniu to forge weapons that never missed, and Dian Cécht to heal the wounded at the Well of Sláine. Together they broke Fomorian power at the Second Battle of Mag Tuired.
Dian Cécht struck his son Miach four times with a sword — Miach healed the first three wounds, but the fourth split his brain and killed him. The physician-god could not endure being surpassed, even by his own child.
The Tuatha Dé Danann descended through the sky in a dark cloud upon Ireland, bringing with them the arts of sorcery, druidry, and every craft — a divine race who conquered the Fir Bolg and ruled until the coming of the Milesians.
After Sreng severed Nuada's arm at the First Battle of Moytura, the physician-god Dian Cécht fashioned him a silver hand that moved like living flesh, restoring him in body though not yet in kingship.
Dian Cécht stood at the Well of Sláine during the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, plunging the wounded into its waters to heal them and return them to the fight, until the Fomorians buried the well under stones.
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