Miach’s Family Tree

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Family

• Dian Cécht(parent),Airmed(sibling)

  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.

Slain by

• Dian Cécht

  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.

Member of

• Tuatha Dé Danann

  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.