Book # 8

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Richard Rahl, Lord Rahl of D’Hara, husband to the Mother Confessor, and Seeker of Truth appointed by the First Wizard has helped turn the homeland of Emperor Jagang into a free land. He led the people to believe in themselves and let them take control of their own lives and they decided that they wanted to be free. That spark created a mad fire burning out of control but in a good way for the lands of D’Hara and in a bad way for the Order.

While leaving the Old World, Richard came across a man that seemed innocent enough but Richard couldn’t seem to warm to him. When the man told him of his problem and that he wanted Lord Rahl to come and make the Order leave that has invaded his homeland, Richard was sympathetic but couldn’t do it by himself. He was sent on his way with words of wisdom but not help from Richard or Kahlan. After that night Richard started getting sick. It seems that the stranger that came to ask for help had indeed poisoned him. His way of thinking was that Richard had to help in order to get the antidote but he didn’t know Richard well. While giving him one of the four antidotes and telling him that there were three more to get, Richard was furious. All he could do was to go to the cities and recover them and see what he could do to help this man.

While getting to these cities it seems that someone is always watching and once Richard figures out that there is a wizard in the area, he was able to put two and two together. He brought out all the men that have run for their lives from the Order and told them what he thought was the truth. His ancestors banished those individuals that contained absolutely no spark of magic to the Old World after the boundaries went up. The wizards from the Old World sent them to a place that would keep their ideas of evil and everything away from the rest of the world. While living for so long without violence, it took Richard some time to explain what was happening and how he had to have their help if anyone was going to succeed.

These people weren’t able to see magic and magic wasn’t able to harm them in the slightest. Lord Rahl had his work cut out for him.

Meanwhile at the Palace in D’Hara, Wizard Nathan Rahl is beside himself because Richard has just about walked off the view of prophecy itself. Without delay, Nathan and Ann, the former prelate of the Sisters of the Light, ride hard to find out just what has happened. No one knows that a whole empire that is naked to the world of magic has become naked to the Order and the evil and violence that comes with them. This empire is exclusively made up of holes in the world like Richard’s half sister.

What is going to happen with the Order and Richard? Will Nathan and Ann make it in time before the Wizard Nicholas the Slide can slip into Richard and hand him over the Order?

I was moved by this book simply because these people were so ignorant of what goes on in the world around them. They called themselves the enlightened but were actually in need of it. I enjoyed watching the changes come over the people just by the influences Richard had. Another winner in my book or website actually from Goodkind.

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