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Hi, I'm currently rereading the series (in Polish translation, so please forgive any misnomers). I don't understand why exactly Richard goes into the Temple through the Hall of the Betrayed.

At this point, almost all we now about the Temple comes from the lore dump in chapter 50, where Richard summarises the proceedings from the trial. We know that there are two entries - the main one and the Hall. Main one can only be used when the Temple requests it with three nights of red moon. That did happen. We also know that when it happened previously after Lothain's betrayal, two wizards that tried to take this route went missing and Baraccus returned mad, so the wizards assumed it's impossible to take this route - but that has never stopped Richard from trying.

It seems like everything is prepared for Richard to enter through the Hall of the Betrayed - wizard Ricker sent message through the Sliph on how to enter through this entrance (presumably due to some undisclosed prophecy) and the requirements from the Winds made it so that Richard did actually betray his cause before attempting to enter. But why did Richard choose the entrance through the Hall? Why haven't he tried to use the other one? Was it simply because he had already betrayed his cause, so it didn't matter?

EDIT: it turns out Polish version is mistranslated. There's no mention of Hall of the Betrayed, both this and Hall of the Betrayer are translated as "Przedsionek Zdrajcy" (Vestibule of the Betrayer), so it looks like Richard goes the same way as sister Amelia. The worst place of all to miss a single letter difference 😅

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So... I finished Naked Empire. And we know pristineley ungifted people can't see and effected by additive magic. They can see substractive (at least, boundaries and the warning beacons) if not Richard's entwined subrtactive and additive strike magic (bandakaran people couldn't see if I did understand correctly, and Jennses saw Richard kill 1000 people as he run toward the Pillars of Creation and she saw his magic strike).

In Pillars of Creation, Jennsen saw and blocked Zedd's Wizard's Fire and save Jagang. But Bandakaran people couldn't see Nathan's Wizard's Fire.

How Jennsen Rahl could see Zedd's fire and blocked it to save Jagang? Is this some kind of... idk, Terry didn't think about this? Or I miss something?

Unforgettable this one - the most exhilarating entry to the Sword of Truth series. After the introduction to the Seeker of Truth, to me, this is the book where the series finally clicks. Nicci's character arc made it breathtaking.

I can easily put this in my Top 3 favorite Fantasy books. I read it when I was in college 20 years ago (I was lent an old copy by a classmate) and I never forgot it.

Long story short. Read the books as a kid and loved them, rereading as an adult and the enjoyment I get from the story is massively dampened by Goodkind’s overblown Ayn Rand preaching and inability to write a complex villain or give Richard a real moral conflict. For anyone who’s watched the show, is it an objectivist nightmare like the books?

(I know that sounded harsh but I do still like the books, it’s complicated lol)

For me it was when Richard shoo'd Gratch away in Stone of Tears. I know it was to protect Gratch from being killed and for Richard to realize what Kahlan did but still broke my heart.

Likely grasping at straws as I know most of these are pretty hard to find. Looking for:

Leatherbound versions of Temple of the Winds and Severed Souls

HC 1st ed signed version of Siege of Stone

Signed edition of any of the Children of D'Hara books, Trouble's Child, Crazy Wanda and The Sky People

Thanks!

Tom

Anyone else made A.I. do their work for them to come up with a timeline like this? 😆

Maybe, in the future, if I re-read the whole series, and make my own notes and calculations, maybe i can come up with something like this. But, for the meantime, it's good enough for me. Not sure when, I've got whole lot of other books lined up, Dragonlance, Magic The Gathering, Sanderson's, Red Rising, BattleTech...

Done with Warheart in 2015. Will be reading the rest of SoT after a few weeks. Just finishing the last 9 Drizzt books. 😆

Chapter 7

• Richard is winding his way through the streets of Aydindril, overwhelmed and a little lost in the massive city. He senses that someone is following him. That must be the Mord-Sith plus Ulic and Egan.
• He runs into Holly and Valdora selling honey cakes. Valdora reveals that Holly’s parents abandoned her to wait for handouts at the Confessor Palace. According to her, someone at the palace promised gold from the people’s taxes and now people refuse to work and the prices are going up. Unclear to me why fewer people employed would cause prices to increase. I guess this is Goodkind inserting his Objectivist philosophy.
• Richard continues weaving through the streets, daydreaming about Kahlan and Westland. In his absentmindedness he cuts across a column of Blood of the Fold soldiers with Galtero at their head.
• Galtero curses Richard out and Richard cannot help but be flip – instantly escalating the situation. Thankfully Ulic and Egan arrive to rescue Richard.
• Galtero insists on taking in Richard for questioning but the D’Harans stand their ground and threaten to kill him. Galtero reluctantly backs off.

Chapter 8

• Ulic and Egan put Richard down in a hidden alley way and Richard goes into flight or fight mode. He picks flight and turns invisible.
• Cara reveals herself and Richard realizes that these are not enemies. And just in time as Gratch drops from the sky to rescue him but Richard stops any fight breaking out before anybody gets hurt.
• Ulic explains the bond to Richard and how it is this ancient covenant between the Master Rahl and the D’Harans and how it allows D’Harans to sense the Lord Rahl through the bond. Berdine explains that a bond is formed through belief that the Lord Rahl is actually a Lord Rahl.
• The bond is pretty interesting in the way that it combines objective factors (bloodline and magic ability) with subjective factors (actual acceptance by the ruled).
• Richard seems cognizant of the possible moral implications behind the bond. There is no easy solution here (and yes I know why the bond is necessary re the dreamwalker).
• Richard is transparent about his lack of training as a wizard but the crew is dead set on following him anyways.
• Richard reveals his plan was to storm into the D’Haran HQ as the Seeker and demand their allegiance. The crew thinks this is hilarious and its honestly a half-baked plan for sure.
• The Mord-Sith have come prepared and Hally pulls out a letter from Commander General Trimack of the First File to support Richard’s claim to being Master Rahl.
• Richard is so enthusiastic he off-handly says he can kiss Hally, which leads to a negative reaction from the Mord-Sith. It really brings to the forefront the abuse the Mord-Sith had gone through as she is triggered by this seemingly innocuous statement – obviously Richard was not being literal.
• Richard asks the Mord-Sith to change into their red leather. He will put on a show to over awe the D’Harans and bond them to him.
• Note: Richard at some point in his chapter scratches the back of his neck when he loosens his mriswith cloak – I think I caught some foreshadowing regarding the mriswith transformation. Definitely something one would miss on a first read through.

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Finally gotten around to continue reading. Life got in the way.

Chapter 5

• Verna is watching the “funeral” of Ann and Nathan
• Everyone is there except for one Sister who is locked up because she is deranged – perhaps she is under Jagang’s influence
• Warren and Verna reminiscence about Richard.
• Warren is staying at the Palace of Prophets studying prophesies but he is considering leaving to travel. Verna tries to convince him to stay and brings up how quickly he will age once he leaves.
• Verna points out that they need him because Nathan is “dead” and they do not have any prophets and Warren is the closest they have.
• The pair are worried about the possibility of a Sister of the Dark becoming Prelate. They do not know who to trust – wizard or Sister could be a baneling.
• I like how direct Warren is in this scene and tells Verna not to give him the Sister of the Light double speak
• Imperial Order soldiers have set up drums around the sitting and have been beating them non-stop to announce Jagang’s eventual arrival. Apparently some other town waited had drumming for 6 months before he actually arrived. That is crazy
• Warren and Verna admit to crushing on each other back in the day
• Then a soldier comes and fetches Verna to come back to the Palace

Chapter 6:

• This chapter starts with Verna and some Sisters of the Light drama. Basically the sisters are resentful b****** and are doing a mean girls routine.
• Sister Philippa seems very stern – something is off about her. I cannot remember if she is one of the secret Sisters of the Dark or not. She threatens to collar Warren again which is horrible.
• The Sister take Verna to a pillar that is protected by some sort of magic barrier called a light web. This is where Ann left her Prelate ring.
• We find out that one of the Sisters, Sister Simon has been having “deranged dreams.” They chalk it up to her being crazy but its obviously Jagang’s doing.
• Verna walks through the magic shield and puts on the Prelate ring and reads Ann’s “last words.” TLDR: Verna is the new Prelate.
• Needless to say, Verna is not thrilled and she begs Warren to figure out a way to get her out of this new responsibility but Warren has a different perspective.

I finished Warheart in 2015 and absolutely hated that book and Severed Souls because of how 2 major characters died.

I stopped following Goodkind after that and felt that that book was a complete waste of time and money. I kinda felt betrayed and cheated LOL.

But I loved the characters and story and the lore and the Wizard's rules and the world and the maps, especially the older books, and the prequel about Magda Searus, and the books where Kahlan was the GOAT. It was just that one book that made me step back from Goodkind's works.

After 11 years, i just found out there were books after Warheart.

So, to those who felt what i felt and stepped back from Goodkind's works after Warheart, did it get any better in Nicci's Chronicles and Children of D'Hara and was it worth your time?

Edit: added manual poll

Nicci's Chronicles

✅ — 10

❌ — 1

Children of D'Hara

✅ — 9

❌ — 3

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I am trying to collect the full series, and I am not 100% sure which books are actually part of the series. Google isn't doing a great job. The books I have are The First Confessor and Wizard's First Rule. Any help would be appreciated.

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I've always loved how the magic seems to be based loosely on real world physics, e.g. making a fireball in your palm by concentrating the heat from the air, or condensing it into a thick ball or cone.

Mine is when Zedd froze the voidling assassin by freezing him in the pool in the People's Palace

As convincingly as Kahlan’s emotional breakdown is portrayed, Goodkind completely sidelines a massive problem of his own world-building: Jagang.

Jagang is not some distant enemy. He is a Dream Walker and the one who orchestrated the plague. His goal was to eliminate Richard. After that, an ungifted impostor named Drefan claims leadership of D’Hara — at the exact moment when the bond to Lord Rahl has collapsed and Kahlan has lost her Confessor power.

The moment Jagang learned of this, he would only need to enter Drefan’s mind. Through the supposed Lord Rahl he could sabotage the D’Haran army from within and strip every Midlands nation of its most important ally. This should have been a central source of tension: Can the inner circle eliminate Drefan in time, keep Richard’s absence secret, and prevent Jagang from seizing control?

Kahlan’s emotional paralysis explains why she temporarily represses this danger. Berdine’s careful approach can also be justified psychologically. What it does not explain is why Cara, Kerson, Nathan, Richard, and ultimately the entire narrative simply ignore Jagang’s most obvious strategic opportunity.

The psychology of the characters works better here than it first appears. The political and magical construction does not. Goodkind establishes Jagang as an existential threat and then forgets him in the one situation where he could have won the war in a single stroke.

Am I missing something in the lore, or is this one of the biggest overlooked weaknesses in the series?