Brian Brennan

Brennan was one of the National Guard soldiers seriously wounded at the battle outside the sithen in Swallowing Darkness. He had taken a mortal chest wound, but when Meredith arrived she laid a petal from the goddess on his face and prayed that she would be able to help him. She laid her hand on the wound and apparently empathically healed him, taking his pain until she passed out. The bloody nail that had pierced his chest, fell out of the wound. Brennan continued with her through the fallen Guards and helped her as she healed them until eight stood with her.

In A Shiver of Light, Meredith found herself traveling in dreams to Brennan's aid with Sholto, to whom she had recently been hand-fasted. Brennan's problem was that his farm was failing and he had no money to save it. He also thought himself unworthy of his girl, and he was going to kill himself. They spoke to him long enough for his girl to arrive, and berate him for trying to leave her. She said he was the only man in her life who had never bored her. He proposed and promised he would do his best never to bore her.