Mira of Sald is 37 and the first wife of Sir Eldmain. She has given the lord five children: Armyn (18), a boy who is currently a squire to a her older brother some 5 leagues to the east; Urlan, a boy who has died at the age of 10 five yars ago from pneumnoia; three younger children that are still at home.
The lady-in-waiting Alymia that attends Mira and here siblings is a niece of the prince of Leriel and age 17. She expects to marry the eldest son of Felan Weymyss from Pethwys soon and wants to get out of these "backwaters" real fast.