Evan Rydingsword

Evan and his army are at war with the Dhaini people. When Corbin suggests going to the Earth Witch, who the people want over Wirnor, to end the battle. When he finds a fourteen year old girl at Firewell Mountain, he says she isn't the Earth Witch, who says she is a student. He fallows the young girl, sometimes growing impatient. Mariel turns out to be the Earth Witch. She gave him the means to defeat his enemy in the form of a stone sword. However, when the troops sank to the ground, he felt sickened. Then, when the price for the magic was the loss of Mariel's life, the woman he loved, he dropped the sword. It was hard to do it and she had accepted her fate as the price to be paid, but he had not. As a result, he lost his arm and his sight. He is also destined to become the next Earth Witch.