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|title=The Heart of the Mirage

|sort=Heart of the Mirage

|date=August 2007

|isbn=978-1841496092

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When we first meet Ligea Gayed, she has a rather high opinion of herself. Highly self-confident to the point of being high-handed, more than a little sly, and extremely ambitious, she has taken to the land she was brought up in like a duck to water. She believes Tyrans is a benevolent, cultured empire and looks down on the culture of her birth with some contempt, glad she was stolen away as a child and raised by one of the Generals of Tyr. So she reacts very badly when she is sent on a mission back to Kardiastan to quell a growing conspiracy, although as she is hardly given any information to go on at all, save the leadership of a mysterious Mir Ager, she has a right to be suspicious.