Will's mother is mentioned in the first book, The Ruins of Gorlan, but her name is not mentioned. She was the wife of Daniel. The Ranger Halt was begged by a dying Daniel, who had been mortally wounded by Wargals, to look after Will's mother; she was alone and expecting a baby back at Daniel's farm. Halt tells Will in the first book that he helped her give birth, but it was a difficult birth and she died shortly after Will was born.