Mirri Maz Duur

Mirri Maz Duur is a character from A Song of Ice and Fire series. She is a Lhazareen godswife also known as a maegi and is said to possess unearthly like powers. She was an antagonist in the series Game of Thrones towards the end of the first season.

She is portrayed by Mia Soteriou.

A Song of Ice and Fire
Mirri Maz Duur was raised to be a godswife, a healer, and trained in the Lhazar temple of the Great Shepherd, her culture's deity that they worshipped. As a child, she was taught by her mother who was also a godswife and traveled to Asshai to the learn the arts of songs and spells and also became a shadowbinder and a practitioner of blood magic.

Game of Thrones
Mirri is in her village of Lhazar when the Dothraki khalasar invades and raids destroying and burning the Great Shepherd temple in the process. Mirri is made a slave and raped by three of Khal Drogo's warriors until the Khaleesi Daenerys Targaryen puts an end to it. When the khalasar seizes the Lhazareen women with Mirri in it, Daenerys orders the women to be placed under her protection with no harm coming to them. Drogo accepts this but angers Mago, one of his warriors, and challenges the Khal in combat. Drogo easily kills him but suffers a wound from his sword. Daenerys has Mirri Maz Duur heal him with lotions and herbs.

As the medicine heals it also causes an itchy feeling on Drogo and rips his bandage off causing the wound to fester and the Khal falls from his horse, a sign of weakness among the Dothraki. With his life hanging in balance, Daenerys ask Duur to use forbidden blood magic to save him which she does but states that a sacrifice was to be made. The ritual seemed to work but it left Drogo in a catatonic vegetative state, while the sacrifice was Daenerys' unborn son.

Mirri betrayed Daenerys in an act she saw as justified as she saved millions from Drogo and his son who would no longer threaten the world as they would no longer burn cities or cause harm. Daenerys builds a funeral pyre and has Duur bind to the set. As the flames surround her, the maegi begins to chant and sing until she starts screaming as she is burned alive.