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Sword of Truth	comment	A series of High Fantasy novels — ahem, stories that have important human themes—written by Terry Goodkind. It started in 1994 with the publishing of Wizard's First Rule and ended in 2007 with the eleventh in the series and final book of the Chainfire trilogy, Confessor. There is also a prequel novella, originally published in the Legends compilation of short stories and now available on its own, called Debt of Bones. In story-internal order, the books are as follows: Wizard's First Rule (1994) Stone of Tears (1995) Blood of the Fold (1996) Temple of the Winds (1997) "Debt of Bones" (1998) Soul of the Fire (1999) Faith of the Fallen (2000) The Pillars of Creation (2001) Naked Empire (2003) Chainfire (2005) Phantom (2006) Confessor (2007)In addition to these books, Terry Goodkind has written other novels related to the main Sword of Truth series. The Law of Nines serves as a sequel of sorts to the main series and features an entirely new cast of characters. The Omen Machine, billed as "A Richard and Kahlan Novel", takes place immediately after Confessor, but is not connected to the Myth Arcs of the previous series. The First Confessor is a self-published e-book which features events in the backstory of the main series. The Law of Nines (2009) The Omen Machine (2011) The First Confessor (2012) The Third Kingdom (2013) Severed Souls (2014) Warheart (2015)After the conclusion of Warheart, the main series ended. However several side characters received a spin-off series of sorts, titled The Nicci Chronicles. That series follows the adventures and tribulations of Sister Nicci and Wizard Nathan.The TV adaptation, called Legend of the Seeker, has its own page.Links: Official website
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Sword of Truth / int_121865ac	comment	Noble Savage: Played straight with the Mud People.
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Sword of Truth / int_1226f314	type	Dream Walker
Sword of Truth / int_1226f314	comment	Dream Walker: Dream Walkers were gifted people altered by magic so they had an ability to enter others' dreams and so take control of their minds. Over time they grew in strength so that their ability extended to waking life also, but the name was retained.
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Sword of Truth / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Sword of Truth / int_1282bf4f	comment	One pair of villains is a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Bill and Hillary Clinton, who are killed by their own lecherous depravity.
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Sword of Truth / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Sword of Truth / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The armies of the Imperial Order rape the women of every city they conquer (but not the cities that join willingly). Many of the female characters and Richard have either had such an experience or have come close.
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Sword of Truth / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Sword of Truth / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Emperor Jagang seems to think Richard is this, giving, "Because he's evil!" as the reason he believes Richard is opposing him.
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Sword of Truth / int_13f7da6	type	Instant Expert
Sword of Truth / int_13f7da6	comment	Instant Expert: Averted with the bird call the Bird Man gives Richard in Wizard's First Rule. Despite taking most of a day to teach him, and remarking that children he's taught could get it to summon a particular bird after three tries, all Richard is able to do with the call is summon a horde of birds all at once. Played straight in Faith of the Fallen, where Richard shows himself to be a master carver on his first attempt, explained as his magical powers using it as an outlet when he's forcibly deprived of his sword and not fighting anyone for months on end.
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Sword of Truth / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Sword of Truth / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Richard suffers an especially harsh one after Soul of the Fire. His attempts to sway the people of Anderith to his side fail miserably as they vote to remain neutral in the war between D'Hara and the Imperial Order, Kahlan is ruthlessly beaten and loses the baby they had just conceived, and the Imperial Order draws first blood after they move into Anderith and he can't do a thing to stop them, since they had voted for neutrality after he had told them that he wouldn't waste his men's lives fighting to save people who wouldn't contribute to the effort. He destroys Anderith's Forgotten Superweapon, but the Imperial Order still has a strong foothold in the Midlands and can strike out at will. Personally, militarily, and politically defeated, he takes Kahlan and Cara with him to a remote mountain range in Westland with every intention of sitting out the rest of the war in peace and to hell with everyone else. In part, it's because he wants his people to learn to fight tyranny because they want to rather than because he orders them to, but mostly it's because he's just that sick and tired of the whole mess. If it weren't for Nicci tracking him down and kidnapping him, he would have been able to hide for years without being found.
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Sword of Truth / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Sword of Truth / int_14a8974a	comment	The glamour spell, the series' equivalent of love potions, is seen by characters as tantamount to rape. Sorceresses who use it are either executed or expelled from the Palace of the Prophets (the Palace has a spell which slows down aging to about 10%, so there is little difference between the two for the exiles). On the other hand, the Confessors' power literally makes a person touched by it their devoted slave forever. While that's all problematic enough, it crosses into rape territory because having sex causes them to lose control of their power, Confessing whoever they do it with. This means that there were only two recorded cases of a Confessor able to have a mate who isn't forced to consent with mind control, and these cases were 3,000 years apart. Bear in mind that Confessors are on the good side, and this isn't treated as rape. Not that it is actually viewed as a good thing - it's merely the only way to promote the Confessor lines, which are essential to their legal system.
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Sword of Truth / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Sword of Truth / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: The series introduces antagonists who have rhetoric that's pretty obviously communist, starting with the first book's villain Darken Rahl (he lives in the "People's Palace", has a "People's Peace Army" and lectures a peasant on how his duty is to aid others-he's also a vegetarian), then increasingly so with the Imperial Order. Naked Empire has pacifists so committed they're basically suicidal, who also use slogans straight out of 20th century American anti-war movements. This all seems fairly out of place in the medieval European fantasy setting that the books take place in (though such groups occasionally occurred even then, it was always far more on the fringe and soon suppressed by the establishment).
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Sword of Truth / int_16fdf53e	type	Magic Fire
Sword of Truth / int_16fdf53e	comment	Magic Fire: Wizard's Fire is a standard ability of wizards that conjures a flame that is extra virulent, seeking targets and resisting extinguishment. An upgrade is Wizard's Life Fire, which uses the wizard's life force, killing him in order to create an enhanced burst of flame.
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Sword of Truth / int_171c50a9	type	The Philosopher
Sword of Truth / int_171c50a9	comment	The Philosopher: Supposedly, Richard.
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Sword of Truth / int_177a6464	type	Genre Shift
Sword of Truth / int_177a6464	comment	Genre Shift: From "stories with important human themes" to a series of Author Tracts in favor of Objectivism.
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Sword of Truth / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Sword of Truth / int_18bf4326	comment	Though Darken Rahl takes this to extremes, it's actually a long-standing tradition in the House of Rahl that goes back thousands of years. "Pristinely Ungifted" offspring of the House of Rahl are historically killed at birth, because of the inherent Anti-Magic quality they possess, and the fact that any children they have will also be Pristinely Ungifted, meaning that they could potentially wipe out magic entirely. Of course, Darken has forgotten about the reason for this tradition and just settled for getting rid of any accidental offspring that don't fit his criteria as his true heir.
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Sword of Truth / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sword of Truth / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The title of each book is mentioned conspicuously in the text, except for in Soul of the Fire, the title of which bears tenuous relation at best to anything in the book.
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Sword of Truth / int_192d04d5	type	Mutually Exclusive Magic
Sword of Truth / int_192d04d5	comment	Mutually Exclusive Magic: Sorcerers' and wizards' magic is completely different, such that neither can affect the other. This takes the sorcerer Brother Narev by surprise when he tries to kill Richard with magic, who's a wizard, something he doesn't know. Richard then takes advantage of his surprise and kills Narev using a sword.
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Sword of Truth / int_1a0881b	type	Muggle Born of Mages
Sword of Truth / int_1a0881b	comment	Muggle Born of Mages: Leitis, Verna's daughter with Jedediah. Despite both of them having the gift, she did not. She was therefore sent to be raised by another family, as the Palace of the Prophets had no further use for her. This has become increasingly common, despite the Palace's efforts to breed more gifted people.
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Sword of Truth / int_1a54a61b	type	The Witch Hunter
Sword of Truth / int_1a54a61b	comment	The Witch Hunter: The Blood of the Fold are an organization of these, who firmly believe Magic Is Evil and all magic users are banelings (i.e. serve the Keeper). Similarly the Imperial Order loathes magic because of the inequality it entails, though in the short term both use this out of necessity.
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Sword of Truth / int_1a74b900	type	World of Badass
Sword of Truth / int_1a74b900	comment	World of Badass: Every character of plot significance is more than capable of and willing to take out numerous Mooks, although detractors see it as a World Of Ax-Crazy due to villains tendency to Kick the Dog and the heroes to Shoot the Dog.
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Sword of Truth / int_1af2ac43	type	Dive Under the Explosion
Sword of Truth / int_1af2ac43	comment	Dive Under the Explosion: In Temple of the Winds, Kahlan and Nadine are chasing a wizard through a drainage tunnel. Once they come close, he starts launching fireballs from the other end, so they have to dive under the water and swim the rest of the way.
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Sword of Truth / int_1af921a3	type	Either/Or Prophecy
Sword of Truth / int_1af921a3	comment	Either/Or Prophecy: Mostly played straight, but subverted in the fourth book with a "bound fork" prophecy in which Richard dies in both possible outcomes. He "dies" by entering the Temple of the Winds, which exists in both the world of the living and the world of the dead.
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Sword of Truth / int_1b36d1dc	type	Fairy Companion
Sword of Truth / int_1b36d1dc	comment	Fairy Companion: In the first book, Kahlan has a companion by the name of Shar, who is a night wisp. Shar helped Kahlan keep her sanity when she traveled through the boundary, but as a result of the boundary, as well as Darken Rahl's influence and power, she and her kind are dying.
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Sword of Truth / int_1bf2c338	type	The Maker
Sword of Truth / int_1bf2c338	comment	The Maker: The Creator is believed to have created everything, hence the name, at least by many in the New and Old Worlds. However, the protagonists come to view this as a metaphor for a creative force, not an entity, and either way no direct evidence for it is ever presented. Numerous characters, good or bad, claim to act in the Creator's name however.
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Sword of Truth / int_1c169242	type	The Order
Sword of Truth / int_1c169242	comment	The Order: The Confessors, a group of women who for millennia served as truth-finders, insuring true confessions as their gift can make people tell it. Led by a Mother Confessor, she chaired the Council of the Midlands, serving as effectively their leader. They were centered in Aidendril, and have largely died out in wars. The Wizards had one as well, who trained men who have magic in the Wizards Keep of Aidendril. Closely allied to the Confessors, ancient Wizards actually created them. The Sisters of the Light are sorceresses who train young women with the gift and shepherd prophets. Since Wizards have largely died out, they took over training young men as well, but this takes far longer. A religious group, the Sisters are worshippers of the Creator, though some within their ranks have now secretly sworn themselves to his mortal enemy the Keeper. They live in the Palace of the Prophets on Halsband Island, a place in the Old World, which is under a spell which slows their aging significantly, so they can live centuries. The Mord Sith, a group of female warriors who serve as bodyguards and torturers to D'Hara's Lords Rahl, wielding the agiel, a magical weapon capable of causing intense pain. Additionally they're able to turn magic back against its casters. The Imperial Order, a fanatical group in the Old World which advocates extreme collectivism and equality. Due to this, they oppose magic as some people have the gift while others don't. In spite of this, their leader and many members are themselves magic users (they justify this as using magic to destroy it). They create an empire under Jagang, a Dreamwalker with the ability to control people's minds, later invading the New World which causes a huge war.
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Sword of Truth / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Sword of Truth / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Nicci . . . just Nicci. Undoubtedly the most stoic character in the entire series. After going through an insane life of hardship and self-loathing, she eventually becomes so hardened that she is raped and doesn't even bother to acknowledge the person doing it.
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Sword of Truth / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Sword of Truth / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: So, you've used a spell to make the Mother Confessor lose her memory, and be the next best thing to invisible. She has no idea who you are, so you can give her any impression of who and what she's supposed to be you want. Do you A. pretend to be her friend, so as to earn her trust and make things easier for yourself, or B. treat her like shit, beat her, berate her, and threaten her, and thereby inspire her to work actively against you? If you picked A, you're smarter than the Sisters of the Dark. In The Third Kingdom, newly resurrected Emperor Saluchan advises Hannis Arc to put down the villain ball. Arc has Richard captive, and plans to drag him around as he conquers the D'Haran Empire as a protracted revenge for the previous Rahl rulers killing his family. Saluchan points out that as long as Richard is still alive, he'll be planning and working to stop and kill Arc — and therefore a threat that Arc would be better off simply killing now.
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Sword of Truth / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Sword of Truth / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The Confessors' hierarchy is based on whose gift is the most powerful and requires the least recovery time after each use.
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Sword of Truth / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
Sword of Truth / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: Wizard's Fire.
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Sword of Truth / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
Sword of Truth / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: Several books of prophecy, The Book of Counted Shadows, Chainfire.
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Sword of Truth / int_1d2400e9	type	Green-Eyed Monster
Sword of Truth / int_1d2400e9	comment	Green-Eyed Monster: Played straight with Jagang, averted with Nicci.
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Sword of Truth / int_1e020735	type	Heroic Suicide
Sword of Truth / int_1e020735	comment	Heroic Suicide: Wizard's Life Fire can be this, when done to protect another person. It requires that a wizard put all of his life force into a spell that consumes everything surrounding them in a last act that also kills him. In the first book, Kahlan's former wizard does this to ensure that Darken Rahl cannot use magic to learn who has made off with a Box of Orden. Zedd tastes the ashes left on the wall and notes that they are sweet, the sign that it was done to protect another person. This is also the first indication they have that he was acting on some greater plan, rather than just abandoning Kahlan for the money and power of his new post. Zedd later attempts it to stop the chimes, but survives and is revived by Richard. In the prequel book Warheart, Barracus uses Subtractive Magic to insure a war wizard will be born when a dream walker is and counter it, then kills himself to keep the secret. In The Pillars of Creation Althea poisons herself to prevent not only her husband's suicide out of grief if he found her brutally murdered instead, but chose death to begin with rather than living when this would mean the Keeper winning.
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Sword of Truth / int_1ed272c1	type	Automaton Horses
Sword of Truth / int_1ed272c1	comment	Automaton Horses: Almost completely averted. Characters travelling any great distance will have two or three horses along to avoid wearing any one out too much. There are very loving descriptions of various mouth bits and other gear, along with their pros and cons as they relate to handling a horse. Richard, in particular, is shown many times rubbing down a horse and cleaning hooves of debris as part of his setting camp routine. It's even mentioned that a horse wearing an invasive bit shouldn't be allowed to graze freely, as it can't chew properly and could develop colic, which is a fact that most authors would never think to include unless they were just straight up showing off.
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Sword of Truth / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Sword of Truth / int_1f14978d	comment	When the Confessors use their gift on an innocent person, they're then transformed into animals since Confession affects them less. Brophy is one of these, who'd been transformed into a wolf. He shows up in the first book. In his case however he can still talk and is devoted to Kahlan, who'd Confessed him, like a human Confession victim.
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Sword of Truth / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Sword of Truth / int_1fc8335e	comment	Most wizards and sorceresses are a Race and Lottery Winners, but learn their powers like Scholars. The gift is sometimes inherited from one's ancestors (less and less common ever since a major magical disruption 3,000 years ago), and sometimes, it seems, pops on its own (there used to be a time when nearly everyone was a wizard, so there isn't much difference). However, it is possible for a wizard to take an apprentice without a gift, and teach him to use magic, with the process probably using some magical procedures (Mutants). The wizards trained that way are, apparently, considerably less capable. Subtractive magic is also Theurgic, as it requires a Deal with the Devil unless the wizard is born with the most powerful gift, that of the war wizard. War wizards and prophets are wizards with extra powers, even more rare than the less powerful kind.
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Sword of Truth / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
Sword of Truth / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: Subverted. The Sisters of the Light are constantly warning Richard not to speak the name of the Keeper of the Underworld, but it turns out that the implied dire consequences are merely superstition. Also played straight with the summoning of the Chimes, though it's not just saying their names. There's a specific set of criteria that the one saying it has to fit for it to work.
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Sword of Truth / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Sword of Truth / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The Old World is a Communist dystopia ruled by religious fanatics and a magic-powered State Sec, and so is a somewhat exaggerated version of this. But in the rest of the world, heroes and muggles still routinely suffer horrible fates.
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Sword of Truth / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Sword of Truth / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: Kahlan in the Con Dar. Richard, pretty much any time from the second book on, thank you Sisters of the Light. Nicci after joining the good guys, though she was never very nice to start (except to look at). Neither Zedd nor the Prelate have issues with lying and manipulating innocent people. Cara is... well, a Mord-Sith.
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Sword of Truth / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Sword of Truth / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: The Boxes of Orden, after having been mostly ignored since the second book, become very important again in the series finale.
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Sword of Truth / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Sword of Truth / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The Mud People ritually consume the flesh of their fallen enemies, in an aversion of the "cannibals are always villains" aspect of the trope.
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Sword of Truth / int_22224d05	type	Straw Civilian
Sword of Truth / int_22224d05	comment	Straw Civilian: People are supposed to look foolish for not joining Richard's empire and disagreeing with his strategy of total war against the Imperial Order. But look at it like this. Richard is descended from the line of the Rahls, notorious for being crazy power hungry bastards. He ascended to rule the D'Haran Empire by killing his father. He continues to employ the Mord-Sith, whose primary purpose for existing is just to torture people. Most of the claims about the Imperial Order's evil initially comes from Richard and his own soldiers. And he's continuing his father's expansionist policies, and also insisting that people perform the devotion, in which they spend a total of four hours every day essentially praying to Richard. (There's a magical reason why this protects them, but most people don't know about it). He's also fond of making references to how much killing he does. Oh, and he broke a little girl's jaw. Would you trust this guy? Well you should, because he's right, and if you don't join with him the Order will kill and rape everyone in the country. Although that may happen anyway. However, Richard simply expects them to get in line without hesitation and also threatens punishment for anyone who doesn't, demanding complete surrender of everything they have into his control. Is it any wonder many refuse? The text acts like it's just them being unreasonable, but from their perspective it has to come off as very suspicious, and he does little to convince them of his benevolence.
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Sword of Truth / int_2410cc23	type	The Time of Myths
Sword of Truth / int_2410cc23	comment	The Time of Myths: The war 3000 years ago between the Old World and the New. The Keep, the Confessors, the Chimes, Chainfire, the Palace of the Prophets, the Bond with Lord Rahl, innumerable books of magic, constructed spells, the Journey Books, the Towers of Perdition, and even the antagonist and the protagonist are all remnants of that war, brought back as the last smidgeon of that war.
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Sword of Truth / int_24fa0857	type	Line in the Sand
Sword of Truth / int_24fa0857	comment	Line in the Sand: Kahlan offers her soldiers the opportunity to opt out before their seemingly suicidal attack on the Imperial Order. After they leave, she orders the remaining soldiers to go after them and kill them, on the (eventually proven correct) assumption that they planned to sell the others out to the Imperial Order.
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Sword of Truth / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Sword of Truth / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: Darken Rahl uses a kind of blood magic in the form of consuming the brains and testicles of a young boy loyal to him to summon a creature of the underworld to ride and thus can travel anywhere very quickly. The journey books were introduced later in the series and did not require blood to operate. Also in the books, it's mentioned that blood is particularly potent for things like drawing spell forms, though usually other things like sorcerer's sand also work for spells. The biggest blood-fueled spell form in the series is the People's Palace. The trick here is, the blood is still in the people going through the palace, which is how it's kept potent when just blood would have dried out and lost its effect long ago.
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Sword of Truth / int_2767953f	type	Blood Sport
Sword of Truth / int_2767953f	comment	Blood Sport: Ja'La dh Jin. The way it's (vaguely) described, it's a team game somewhat like football, but with extreme violence not only permitted, but encouraged.
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Sword of Truth / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
Sword of Truth / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Darken Rahl has a lot of kids, most of them he doesn't even know about. For their sake, they had better either inherit Rahl's magical powers, or make sure that he never finds them. Old Darken is admittedly obsessed with finding his one true "Gifted" heir, and doesn't appreciate ungifted offspring running around. Though Darken Rahl takes this to extremes, it's actually a long-standing tradition in the House of Rahl that goes back thousands of years. "Pristinely Ungifted" offspring of the House of Rahl are historically killed at birth, because of the inherent Anti-Magic quality they possess, and the fact that any children they have will also be Pristinely Ungifted, meaning that they could potentially wipe out magic entirely. Of course, Darken has forgotten about the reason for this tradition and just settled for getting rid of any accidental offspring that don't fit his criteria as his true heir. Also of note are female Confessors. Male Confessors are much, much stronger than female ones to the point where it becomes impossible to control them; according to the backstory, the vast majority were complete monsters, using their powers to get whatever they wanted, and sparking off decades of war before they were wiped out. So, all female Confessors are forced to have their mate kill any of their male children immediately at birth, while the Confessor herself tends to be overcome with grief for some time afterward. After Kahlan and Richard are married, there is much drama on this point â€” particularly as a male will definitely inherit Kahlan's Confessor powers, but also potentially Richard's magical gifts.
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Sword of Truth / int_28104b90	type	Bag of Spilling
Sword of Truth / int_28104b90	comment	Richard Rahl's gift (ability to do magic) qualifies. At the end of a book, expect him to know how to perfectly use it to get out of the dire situation of the week, while at the beginning of the next book he's so clueless about how to use it that the events of the last book might as well have not happened.
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Sword of Truth / int_28836bbd	type	Saving the World With Art
Sword of Truth / int_28836bbd	comment	Saving the World With Art: The sixth book Faith of the Fallen, puts Richard in the heart of the Imperial Order, powerless to free the people from the enemy government that preaches that people are inherently corrupt and shameful and that only through the Order's "benevolent" guidance can they be redeemed. After being forced to create a hideous sculpture idealizing this, Richard decides to instead create a sculpture showing the sanctity and beauty in the human potential, which he names Life. This sculpture has such a profound impact on the populace that it inspires a rebellion against the government and its teachings, instigating a civil war within the Capitol of the enemy.
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Sword of Truth / int_28e90e30	type	More than Mind Control
Sword of Truth / int_28e90e30	comment	More than Mind Control: Jagang's brutal Mind Rape of the Sisters of the Light eventually makes them so terrified of his wrath that they do everything possible to help the Imperial Order, even when he isn't controlling them.
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Sword of Truth / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Sword of Truth / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Raina, though, to be fair, a 50% mortality rate of the series' homosexuals is not remarkably high compared to the overall mortality rate. Her lover survives the series, is one of Richard's advisors (as she knows some High D'Haran), and in the last book is shown paired up with another Mord-Sith. However, this "pairing" is mostly implied.
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Sword of Truth / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
Sword of Truth / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: The Mord-Sith are initially villains who have a strong Dominatrix theme. Even after becoming a part of the "good" side they still remain expert torturers. All of them are initiated into the Mord-Sith through being tortured into submission so they will serve the Lord Rahl, and break others in the same way. This explicitly echoes the idea of bondage domination (though obviously without safeguards which are actually used).
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Sword of Truth / int_2cd6b637	type	Fantastic Nuke
Sword of Truth / int_2cd6b637	comment	Fantastic Nuke: The colossal light spell. When it goes off, the casualities can end up in the hundreds of thousands. The prequel story pictures the boundary spell that way. It was intended to destroy the whole enemy state... although Zedd ultimately decided that would be too much. It might actually be a deliberate allusion to the Manhattan project, considering 1) It is used because actually entering enemy territory is estimated to be too costly. 2) There are experts who doubt the spell can actually be contained instead of destroying everything and 2) one spell is created as a test, and two for effect.
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Sword of Truth / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Sword of Truth / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Darken Rahl uses this tactic in the first book, attacking one of his own towns while making it look like soldiers from Hartland did it.
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Sword of Truth / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Sword of Truth / int_2e206837	comment	A variation in Temple of the Winds. While there is no direct magic compulsion, the condition to access said temple (which they must enter) are two arranged marriages (Richard with Nadine, Kahlan with Drefan) that have to be consummated immediately. The fact that they have no choice and are couples that would never have been together otherwise, making it rape by coercion, is never brought up (as an added bonus, there is a mundane Bed Trick also involved that gets glossed over as well).
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Sword of Truth / int_2e5def99	type	Disobey This Message
Sword of Truth / int_2e5def99	comment	Disobey This Message: A heavily Broken Aesop since everyone in this series who disagrees with Richard is evil and deserves to die.
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Sword of Truth / int_2e7d6711	type	Enemy to All Living Things
Sword of Truth / int_2e7d6711	comment	Enemy to All Living Things: Anyone touched by the Keeper of the Underworld, most notably Oba and Jennsen in Pillars of Creation.
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Sword of Truth / int_2edc82a0	type	Accidental Athlete
Sword of Truth / int_2edc82a0	comment	Accidental Athlete: Richard gets conscripted into a Ja'La team after he slaughters his way through a considerable number of soldiers in an almost-successful attempt to free himself.
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Sword of Truth / int_2f41cac1	type	Our Werebeasts Are Different
Sword of Truth / int_2f41cac1	comment	Our Werebeasts Are Different: The series has a werecat.
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Sword of Truth / int_2f6b63aa	type	Land of One City
Sword of Truth / int_2f6b63aa	comment	Land of One City: Aydindril, which was essentially the Capitol of the Midlands, was an autonomous city-state ruled by the Mother Confessor. The Palace of the Prophets, a large structure which houses the Sisters of the Light (an order of sorceresses) and the wizards whom they train, is large enough to count as a small city by itself. It's ruled by the Prelate, the Sisters' head.
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Sword of Truth / int_2f9d1595	type	You Can See Me?
Sword of Truth / int_2f9d1595	comment	You Can See Me?: Kahlan's first encounter with the Pristinely Ungifted after the Chainfire Event. She may not have said it, but she was certainly surprised. Further, the spell in question was corrupted by the Chimes, so some normal people weren't affected. Jagang realized this, and to find those people, has her walk naked through his camp. The people who saw the beautiful, naked women and tried to grab her were caught by Jagang's troops and conscripted to guard Kahlan. In a curious inversion, Adie is blind but sees using magic. She encounters a pristinely ungifted person, and she hears them but can't see them, and is thoroughly disturbed.
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Sword of Truth / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Sword of Truth / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Subverted in that a character who has knowledge of prophecy explains how this might occur and how to avoid it.
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Sword of Truth / int_30d71ee	type	Flaying Alive
Sword of Truth / int_30d71ee	comment	Flaying Alive: Many characters suffer this or are threatened with it. The Palace of the Prophets graduate Neville Ranson is forced to inflict it on his lifelong friend as part of his forcible initiation into the service of the Keeper.
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Sword of Truth / int_31bace22	type	Rape and Switch
Sword of Truth / int_31bace22	comment	Rape and Switch: Averted. Richard assumes one of the Mord-Sith became a lesbian after the "rape" section of her Training from Hell, only to be informed that no, she was before this ordeal. One of the vanishingly rare instances of Richard actually being wrong about something (note it happened in the first third of the series), as well as him wanting to keep her as a friend even though he wasn't sure about the morality of it. Of course, if Terry Goodkind believed this trope there wouldn't be any straight women left in his novels.
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Sword of Truth / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
Sword of Truth / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: When the Imperial Order conquers a city, it's shown they kill a mentally disabled man as he's deemed "useless" (they only keep citizens with useful skills alive as slaves). This is used to highlight their cruel brutality in the book where it happens.
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Sword of Truth / int_34e1ef45	type	Unnamed Parent
Sword of Truth / int_34e1ef45	comment	Unnamed Parent: This trope is all over the place in the series, particularly in regards to mothers. To name a few unnamed mothers: Richard's mother, Kahlan's mother, Zedd's mother, Darken Rahl's mother, Rachel's mother, Drefan's mother, Oba Rahl's mother, Jennsen's mother, Shota's mother, Chad Rencliff's mother, Prince Fyren's mother, and Six's mother. There is even a point in Phantom where Goodkind goes out of his way to avoid naming a single person's mother; Richard is told his mother's name, and we aren't; we only get something like "Richard heard his mother's name." Those are nearly all Posthumous Characters though. Oba kills his in the chapter the two are introduced.
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Sword of Truth / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Sword of Truth / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: While not outright stated, this is heavily implied to be taking place between Tobias and Lunetta Brogan, as she casts glamours regularly on his behalf it seems.
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Sword of Truth / int_35cae9cc	type	Sex Magic
Sword of Truth / int_35cae9cc	comment	Sex Magic: In Stone of Tears sorceresses gain subtractive magic as part of their pact with the Keeper through having (painful) sex with a demon (he has a barbed penis).
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Sword of Truth / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Sword of Truth / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: Confessors choose men they've confessed as mates, although the effect of the Confessor's touch means they're completely happy with this. The Imperial Order also enslaves many women for this use.
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Sword of Truth / int_36c94bed	type	Person of Mass Destruction
Sword of Truth / int_36c94bed	comment	Person of Mass Destruction: Zedd, who isn't called "The Wind of Death" for nothing. Also, Richard leans toward it whenever he gets his magic working.
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Sword of Truth / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Sword of Truth / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Would you believe that Goodkind considers this series to be firmly on the idealistic side?
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Sword of Truth / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Sword of Truth / int_37499c8	comment	Once an Episode: Every book, a new Wizard's Rule will be revealed. Khalan almost gets raped, which then ends up not happening due to a Contrived Coincidence. (Growing more and more contrived as the series goes by.)
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Sword of Truth / int_3897986a	type	Intoxicated Superpower Snag
Sword of Truth / int_3897986a	comment	Intoxicated Superpower Snag: A Confessor's power must be kept under constant control, so when Kahlan is getting a wound stitched in the first book, she is forced to Skip the Anesthetic so as not to accidentally unleash her power on the healer and destroy her mind. In the second book, a drunken wizard tries to kill Kahlan in the middle of his own war camp, but he's so hammered that he can't control his fireballs and ends up accidentally wiping out about a hundred of his own men before Kahlan kills him.
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Sword of Truth / int_39afa76b	type	"Awkward Silence" Entrance
Sword of Truth / int_39afa76b	comment	"Awkward Silence" Entrance: In Wizard's First Rule, when Richard and Kahlan enter an inn in a Wretched Hive, all talking stops and people turn toward them. Outsiders are uncommon there to start with, but Kahlan looks so out of place she is automatically Mistaken for Prostitute.
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Sword of Truth / int_3a79872e	type	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female
Sword of Truth / int_3a79872e	comment	In Faith of the Fallen Nicci puts a spell on Kahlan, so she will suffer whatever Nicci suffers, but tenfold, and uses it to have Richard following her. After that, she first tries to seduce Richard then, since she fails, doesn't fight when a local thug, Gadi, rapes her, so that Kahlan will feel it. The fact that she lured him on purpose doesn't change the fact that Gadi is a rapist (since he didn't have to do it and ignored consent), but it does mean that Nicci is effectively raping Kahlan. It's never brought up again. May double as Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female as well.
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Sword of Truth / int_3ab88cda	type	Defiant Strip
Sword of Truth / int_3ab88cda	comment	Defiant Strip: In Wizard's First Rule, Denna strips in preparation for her death, because all her clothing is from her being Mord-Sith, and she wants to die as ''herself''.
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Sword of Truth / int_3ae51e0	type	Resigned to the Call
Sword of Truth / int_3ae51e0	comment	Resigned to the Call: Richard really, really didn't want to be the only hope of the New World and the leader of D'Hara. He'd much rather have just gone home after defeating Darken Rahl and lived out his life with Kahlan. But he's The Chosen One, and he eventually accepts that he pretty much has to work all this shit out himself.
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Sword of Truth / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Sword of Truth / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Nicci gets quite a bit starting in Faith of the Fallen, as her entire character and role needed to be turned around starting there. It starts with her getting an Expansion Pack Past, and eventually leads to her Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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Sword of Truth / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
Sword of Truth / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Nicci. Her mother told her at an early age that beauty is only useful to whores. Grown-up Nicci is repeatedly described as one of the most beautiful women in the whole series.
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Sword of Truth / int_3bbe4b	type	Mage Marksman
Sword of Truth / int_3bbe4b	comment	Mage Marksman: Richard uses magic to guide his arrows unerringly into striking their targets, at first without knowing, later deliberately.
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Sword of Truth / int_3cf29583	type	Trojan Prisoner
Sword of Truth / int_3cf29583	comment	Trojan Prisoner
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Sword of Truth / int_3dec5d4e	type	Reminiscing About Your Victims
Sword of Truth / int_3dec5d4e	comment	Reminiscing About Your Victims: Darken Rahl makes himself smile by remembering what he did to a girl who laughed at his scars.
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Sword of Truth / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Sword of Truth / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: Richard Rahl's gift (ability to do magic) qualifies. At the end of a book, expect him to know how to perfectly use it to get out of the dire situation of the week, while at the beginning of the next book he's so clueless about how to use it that the events of the last book might as well have not happened. Lampshaded somewhat at the end of The Pillars of Creation when one character asks Richard why he even needs the Sword of Truth after seeing his magic shred an entire platoon. Richard explains that his gift seems to work out of anger and need, whereas the Sword works all the time. Most notable in the eighth book, where Richard is dying from being poisoned, with the only antidote down the drain and the only person who can make the antidote dead. He then uses his Gift to reverse engineer the ingredients (down to the amount needed of each) of the antidote at the very last minute. Also notable at the end of the fifth book, when Richard realizes how to stop the bells, using a leap of logic that is nothing short of mind-boggling. Or the second book where Richard, without being aware he's doing anything of the sort, uses magical lightning to strike down all the enemy commanders and then any soldiers who don't surrender.
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Sword of Truth / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
Sword of Truth / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The first few books have Richard being told that most people who end up doing great evil honestly believed that they were doing the right thing, and that unquestioning belief in the rightness of one's cause is the most dangerous thing in the world. Later on in the series, the author takes the opposite position: some things really are as simple as black and white, and if you really are Right, taking extreme measures when fighting against those who really are Evil is not only justifiable, but necessary. However, the protagonists end up doing some, well, morally questionable things in the process, to the point where the protagonists can end up looking like textbook examples of what the first few books warned against becoming. Naked Empire spends a good chunk of time preaching that you have to work for things, and that knowledge doesn't just come to you when you need it. In the last pages of the book, Richard's dying of poison and the knowledge of how to make the antidote basically just shows up in his head. Another particularly obvious one is the repeated exhortation to live your own life and think for yourself - but if you don't think Richard is right you're wrong, probably evil, and are going to die. It's broken even before that, since Richard's explicit superpower is that things come to him without any effort (most obviously magic, but it's implied that everything from his skill with a bow to sculpture are just handed to him for free by the universe with no training, practice, etc. required). Richard constantly rejects the guidance of prophecy, calling it unreliable, even though every single time the prophecies end up coming true, just not in the expected way.
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Sword of Truth / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Sword of Truth / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: Con Dar (see also Unstoppable Rage).
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Sword of Truth / int_41d9aaef	type	Brainwashed
Sword of Truth / int_41d9aaef	comment	Brainwashed: The effect of Confession. Anyone who undergoes it loves the Confessor who does it without limit over the rest of their life, will do anything they're ordered to, and die from grief without them. Mord-Sith are tortured and forced to kill so they'll serve as fanatically elite bodyguards/torturers of the Lord Rahl.
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Sword of Truth / int_420dd6e6	type	Sleep Deprivation Punishment
Sword of Truth / int_420dd6e6	comment	Sleep Deprivation Punishment: Sleep deprivation is a common tactic of Mord-Sith. Cara mentions at one point people would end up begging to be tortured instead.
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Sword of Truth / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
Sword of Truth / int_424c9a9b	comment	The series sees a man being tortured by a Mord-Sith after he assassinates a mage in the opposing army (after stabbing a little girl; the girl survives, the mage doesn't). Surprisingly, the torturers are the heroes. After the man has spilled all his information, the mage's lover orders him to be tortured to death as slowly as possible, in retaliation for being so cocky when he was captured.
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Sword of Truth / int_433cee4c	type	Tricked to Death
Sword of Truth / int_433cee4c	comment	Tricked to Death: The climax of Wizard's First Rule, in which Richard tricks Darken Rahl into opening the box of Orden that will kill him.
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Sword of Truth / int_439a64d3	type	Our Witches Are Different
Sword of Truth / int_439a64d3	comment	Our Witches Are Different: The witch women are powerful spellcasters, living for many centuries. The abilities shown include illusion, foresight, and a degree of time manipulation, along with more mundane offensive magic. Everyone gives them a wide berth.
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Sword of Truth / int_43fe061e	type	Agony Beam
Sword of Truth / int_43fe061e	comment	Agony Beam: Agiels are rods that cause intense pain when pressed against the flesh of a person. They're used to torture people.
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Sword of Truth / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
Sword of Truth / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: A few highborn people wear fancy furs, from queens and kings wearing fox trimmed capes, to a duchess wearing an ermine robe.
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Sword of Truth / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Sword of Truth / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: In Stone of Tears, Richard takes off his shirt (while holding his sword) before laying waste to 30 blade masters for "fluidity." Du Chaillu didn't really seem to mind he'd killed all five of her husbands. In Faith of the Fallen, however, he chides three local youths for not wearing shirts, since it makes them seem like thugs, and advises them to instead put proper clothes on and learn how to fix a staircase.
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Sword of Truth / int_45a23791	type	Selfless Wish
Sword of Truth / int_45a23791	comment	Selfless Wish: Inverted. Richard, when faced with a Sadistic Choice, chooses the selfish wish... knowing the selfless one will be granted in any case.
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Sword of Truth / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Sword of Truth / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Emperor Jagang believes that conquering the entire world and killing everyone with magic will sever the connection the Creator and Keeper have with it, allowing mankind alone to advance into a new golden age. He also believes that everyone should be exactly equal and all who have any special talents should be punished for it. Anyone who resists this plan naturally is also killed or at least enslaved.
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Sword of Truth / int_4603ea49	type	Mystical Plague
Sword of Truth / int_4603ea49	comment	Mystical Plague: In Temple of the Winds, Jagang unleashes a plague that's like a worse version of the Black Death on the Midlands' capital city. And he deliberately starts it with a bunch of young children.
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Sword of Truth / int_46784617	type	Date Rape
Sword of Truth / int_46784617	comment	Date Rape: Not a "date" in the usual sense, but this happens to Jensen in Pillars of Creation, the seventh book in the series. Her inner monologue makes it clear she isn't at all comfortable with what her suitor is doing, but she's unable to bring herself to stop him. Not that she likely could have, as he's far stronger than her.
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Sword of Truth / int_468d28be	type	Million Mook March
Sword of Truth / int_468d28be	comment	Million Mook March: The Imperial Order. They gather over a million troops for an invasion, and later the number swells with reinforcements to 2-3 million. By comparison, before Richard starts trying to consolidate the Midlands' forces, the largest assembled armies were in the 100-200,000 range, and the D'Haran-led resistance is hopelessly outnumbered for the duration of the series.
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Sword of Truth / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
Sword of Truth / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Richard spends the first couple of books saying he's just a woods guide, before he accepts his role as Lord Rahl.
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Sword of Truth / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
Sword of Truth / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: Several, including Big Bad Emperor Jagang.
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Sword of Truth / int_48904622	type	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them
Sword of Truth / int_48904622	comment	A Protagonist Shall Lead Them: The hero Richard Rahl is revealed as the heir of the D'Haran Empire, the initial enemy, after he defeats its leader as the first book concludes. He initially resists taking up the role, but accepts this when another, worse threat is revealed who everyone must unite against to stop.
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Sword of Truth / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Sword of Truth / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: As the series goes on, Richard uses this more and more as his modus operandi. Twice in the last book alone he cut off an Imperial Order commander and Emperor Jagang himself in mid-sentence with decapitation and magic heart attack, respectively.
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Sword of Truth / int_4a0f839d	type	Cessation of Existence
Sword of Truth / int_4a0f839d	comment	Cessation of Existence: Due to the chimes' starting to destroy magic in Faith of the Fallen, its later revealed that the underworld (being magical) was destroyed, with there no longer being an afterlife. Thus, now people who die simply stop existing. This is just fine, according to the protagonists.
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Sword of Truth / int_4cc0c6f2	type	TruthSerum
Sword of Truth / int_4cc0c6f2	comment	Truth Serum: This is the purpose of the Confessor's touch. It causes the person touched to feel love toward the Confessor so overwhelmingly that they will tell them anything which they did, or do anything else asked. Thus, it's used to insure a person accused of capital crimes is really guilty, gaining true confessions.
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Sword of Truth / int_4ccd1c09	type	Gender-Restricted Ability
Sword of Truth / int_4ccd1c09	comment	Gender-Restricted Ability: An enforced case in the series. There are only female Confessors, but not because males can't get the power. It's because when a male has the power, it's a much stronger version, without the cooldown that female confessors have, and because of this they end up using said power to get everything they want. After the first generation of tyrannical male Confessors was dealt with, all male Confessor babies are killed shortly after birth. There's also differences between Wizard (male) magic power and Sorceress (female) magic power. In practical terms, they can do more or less the same things: throw wind, fire and lightning around, create spell forms, etc. But they're stated to work differently, such that each gender doesn't properly "get" how the other works. At the Palace of the Prophets, for example, it takes several hundred years for the sorceresses to teach young wizards how to use their gifts properly, but it takes a much shorter amount of time for a male wizard to teach another male wizard.
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Sword of Truth / int_4d070ee3	type	Power Perversion Potential
Sword of Truth / int_4d070ee3	comment	Power Perversion Potential: In Stone of Tears it's shown sorceresses and wizards can get each other aroused with magic, or it's implied enhance the experience while having sex. Jedediah uses his magic to arouse a sorceress this way, and also before he has sex with her (off page) one does the same for him as well.
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Sword of Truth / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Sword of Truth / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Soul of the Fire is singularly the most depressing book of the series, and ends with Kahlan having been beaten to death (and resuscitated by Richard) and losing their child, nearly every other sympathetic character dead, and Richard having been handed the most brutal defeat yet in the series as the Anders vote against him and are conquered handily by the Order.
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Sword of Truth / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Sword of Truth / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Sword of Truth is a Door Stopper twelve-book series filled with Author Filibusters from the fourth book on, about the evils of extreme Socialism and of the importance of individual rights and freedom. These themes were always slightly present, but really begin to crop up later in the series: Although the D'Haran Empire under Richard is no less of an autocracy than the Imperial Order, it is one guided by a firm sense of individual liberty championing the idea that every individual should be the best that they can be, and should be free to benefit based on the effort they put in and the skills they possess, and how this benefits society as a whole. By contrast, people under the Imperial Order are living in absolute squalor, and there is a fear of being anything more than mediocre to avoid rising above anyone else and drawing undue attention and punishment from those in power, and how this drags down all of society with it.
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Sword of Truth / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Sword of Truth / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: There's the fact that the Confessors, a faction of "good" women, have the same infanticidal tendencies as the House of Rahl, the leaders of the evil empire. Or how Emperor Jagang does all his horrible actions in the name of God while Richard does all of his horrible actions in the name of "Moral Clarity". Then, despite Richard claiming that he's fighting for freedom against tyranny he demands total submission in the war, dismissing any reasonable suspicion as he demands this under threat of later punishment. All his talk of individual liberty is hollow since anyone who disagrees with him is labeled an idiot or enemy, much like the Imperial Order views everyone else.
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Sword of Truth / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Sword of Truth / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Whenever the Sword of Truth is drawn, the air rings with the sound of steel.
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Sword of Truth / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Sword of Truth / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The series sees a man being tortured by a Mord-Sith after he assassinates a mage in the opposing army (after stabbing a little girl; the girl survives, the mage doesn't). Surprisingly, the torturers are the heroes. After the man has spilled all his information, the mage's lover orders him to be tortured to death as slowly as possible, in retaliation for being so cocky when he was captured. In the first book, the staff taking care of the tomb of Darken Rahl's father were executed if a single petal fell off the flowers there or a single torch went out in Rahl's presence. And he considered himself merciful for allowing them a quick death in such cases. In one book, Kahlan looks through old records of trials, one of which includes an entry about a wizard who had been executed for being an incurable alcoholic. Her initial response is to think it's an example of this trope, but when she thinks about it she realizes that given the raw destructive power of wizards it just wouldn't be safe to let the guy live.
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Sword of Truth / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Sword of Truth / int_51567188	comment	Wizard's Life Fire, where a wizard who knows he's doomed throws literally everything he has into Wizard's Fire; one demonstration of it from a Wizard of the Second Order (considerably less powerful than Zedd) is enough to vaporize people instantly.
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Sword of Truth / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Sword of Truth / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Warren and Verna are actually both the same age, but due to Warren spending more time in a spell that slows aging, he looks much younger. Verna was at first really self-conscious about her apparent age.
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Sword of Truth / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Sword of Truth / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Cara and probably all the Mord-Siths; it seems to be an inherent part of their training, and Darken Rahl used to take them to his bed quite often. Along with them being taken from their families and horribly trained to become Mord-Sith, it's all most get as backstory. It mostly serves to make them sympathetic, along with Richard by comparison, since he would never do such a thing.
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Sword of Truth / int_5287cef6	type	Hired by the Oppressor
Sword of Truth / int_5287cef6	comment	Hired by the Oppressor: The Imperial Order makes extensive use of magic users despite their dedication to exterminate all magic. The third book is centered around Blood of the Fold, a similar organization where the leader has a sorceress for a sister and is not ashamed of using her power for his purposes.
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Sword of Truth / int_52aa0c4a	type	The Caligula
Sword of Truth / int_52aa0c4a	comment	The Caligula: Princess Violet, originally a Royal Brat in Wizard's First Rule, returns in Phantom as one of these, having become Queen. Darken Rahl also has some aspects of this, but it's not his defining characteristic. Emperor Jagang, however, is indeed a tyrant and Evil Overlord, but he's not crazy.
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Sword of Truth / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Sword of Truth / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The D'Haran guards at the People's Palace during the first book. While they're there to guard Darken Rahl and, ostensibly, Richard, Kahlan, Zedd, and Chase are the enemy, Darken Rahl believes they're no longer a threat to him, so the guards are just polite and friendly, even going so far as offering Richard a horse and giving him directions and advice on what road to take when he leaves.
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Sword of Truth / int_5380d2f1	type	Painless Death for a Price
Sword of Truth / int_5380d2f1	comment	Painless Death for a Price: In the sixth book of the series, the Imperial order captures a Mord-Sith and attempt to interrogate her. By the time Nicci hears of it, the Mord-Sith is too badly mutilated to survive, but has told the interrogator nothing. Nicci kills the interrogator and asks the Mord-Sith to give her some non-secret information about Richard in exchange for a slit throat.
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Sword of Truth / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Sword of Truth / int_539179db	comment	A maternity spell has little to do with motherhood, instead creating synchronization between the caster and the target (effectively taking them hostage). This is compared to the link a baby has to its mother in utero though.
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Sword of Truth / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Sword of Truth / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Demmin Nass for Darken Rahl, Nicholas the Slide and Nicci for Emperor Jagang, Ulicia and Oba Rahl for the Keeper of the Underworld.
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Sword of Truth / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Sword of Truth / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: A variant; the Sword of Truth protects Richard from the initial effects of the Chainfire spell. Anyone else who touches it afterward can shake off the lingering effects (i.e., they can acknowledge Kahlan's existence and see her), but they don't regain their memories of her.
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Sword of Truth / int_54eceae6	type	Magic Is Evil
Sword of Truth / int_54eceae6	comment	Magic Is Evil: The Blood of the Fold believe this, and that all magic users are banelings, who serve the Keeper. In their native Nicobarese and then beyond they seek to hunt down all the magic users they can find. When they actually find them though, it ends badly. Mostly, they simply kill many ungifted people that have been mistakenly identified as being gifted. However, the leader of the group has a sister who is a sorceress whom he uses to further his aims. The Imperial Order believes this too, though in their case it's due to some people being gifted while others aren't offending their communist principles. Bizarrely, they are led by gifted and have a number willingly in their ranks, either ranging from hypocrites to apparently self-hating.
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Sword of Truth / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Sword of Truth / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: The boundary separating the New World from the Old World works like this, tempting those attempting to travel through it with their hearts' desire. It also appears to keep people alive when it traps them, since when Richard brings down the boundary, dozens of people who've been stuck there for years are finally freed.
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Sword of Truth / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Sword of Truth / int_556a4e20	comment	The Empire: In the first book, D'Hara is The Empire. In the second book, the existence of another, much larger, empire is hinted at, and in the third book, defeating it becomes a Myth Arc of sorts that holds the rest of the series together.
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Sword of Truth / int_557a31ce	type	Actual Pacifist
Sword of Truth / int_557a31ce	comment	Actual Pacifist: The Bandakar initially, who fall under the rule of the Imperial Order due to this. Most of them later abandon pacifism and kill fight with Richard's guidance. It's rather anvilicious in proclaiming pacifism is stupid and wrong.
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Sword of Truth / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Sword of Truth / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: As is traditional for the epic fantasy genre, each volume is a thick tome spanning many hundreds of pages.
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Sword of Truth / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
Sword of Truth / int_55ee648c	comment	Mommy Issues: Nicci's relationship with her mother is a female example. Her unnamed mother's dogma being instilled in her at an early age is revealed to be the root of her near-insanity, and is probably responsible for more of her anguish than anyone else in the world.
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Sword of Truth / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Sword of Truth / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Richard Rahl signifies himself getting dangerous with the phrase, "bringer of death." Similarly, when Nicci is going to get dangerous, she slips into the persona of "Death's Mistress."
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Sword of Truth / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Sword of Truth / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Only female Confessors exist, because males are unable to control their power, and caused chaos in the past using them rampantly. Ever since, they have been killed at birth to prevent this happening once again.
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Sword of Truth / int_57df9056	type	Glamour
Sword of Truth / int_57df9056	comment	Glamour: Witch Women like Shota or Six do this unconsciously, and sometimes unintentionally, to those around them. It's considered rape by the Sisters of the Light if one uses this to seduce and then have sex with a man, punishable by death or exile from the Palace of the Prophets (which is basically the same thing).
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Sword of Truth / int_58204b95	type	Magic Knight
Sword of Truth / int_58204b95	comment	Magic Knight: Richard qualifies in later books; though he never quite gets a handle on just how to use his magic, he's still able to use it to devastating effect, and he's an almost unbeatable swordsman, partially thanks to magic. D'Hara tries to avert this with the Lord Rahl. He's the magic against magic, they're the steel against steel. Some Lords Rahl don't like rules. Throughout the series, Richard is repeatedly reminded by his men something along the lines of, "Please, Lord Rahl, try to remember: We do the sword fighting, you do the magic." Mord-Sith. They're anti-magic knights. With a magic torture stick. A Confessor in the Con Dar is this. And creepy as all getup. Nathan Rahl wears a sword through much of the series. Many of his friends ask him why he needs a sword when he's a hilariously-powerful wizard. Then the Pristinely Ungifted show up. The Pristinely Ungifted aren't even immune to magic, they have no connection to it whatsoever. To them, magic might as well not exist except when it does something like hold someone off the ground (where they see the person in the air even if they don't understand) and some poorly-defined subset of Subtractive Magic, which they have some connection to because they're mortal.
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Sword of Truth / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
Sword of Truth / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Despite having been with only Richard once (and only a couple people knew) and was going to marry him, several people assume this about Kahlan in Temple of the Winds.
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Sword of Truth / int_59dc5a90	type	Food as Characterization
Sword of Truth / int_59dc5a90	comment	Food as Characterization: Richard can't stomach meat because of all the killing he has to do in his job as a war wizard.
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Sword of Truth / int_59fe174d	type	Devil, but No God
Sword of Truth / int_59fe174d	comment	Devil, but No God: The Keeper of the Underworld is present in several books, usually at the climax where it turns out he's inches from crossing over into the world and killing everything. Additionally, he seems to regularly talk with the Sisters of the Dark to make deals with them. The Creator, however, doesn't seem to do anything at all.
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Sword of Truth / int_5b0eaf89	type	Upgrade Artifact
Sword of Truth / int_5b0eaf89	comment	Upgrade Artifact: In the second book, Richard is attacked by a group of expert swordsmen who are good enough that the "cut through anything" power of the Sword of Truth isn't going to be enough to save him. He then figures out a way to use the Sword of Truth to access the combined swordsmanship skills of all its former wielders, turning him into a master swordsman.
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Sword of Truth / int_5ba5a470	type	Here There Were Dragons
Sword of Truth / int_5ba5a470	comment	Here There Were Dragons: Almost literally invoked. The later books in the series heavily imply that the world will soon be without magic entirely, which means the end of magical creatures. Richard first realizes how bad this is when he finds the skeleton of a dragon, and wonders if it was the last of them. Turns out, it wasn't.
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Sword of Truth / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Sword of Truth / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Snakes for Kahlan, rats for Cara, lice for Nicci.
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Sword of Truth / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Sword of Truth / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The Palace of the Prophets has a spell on it that slows down aging for anyone who lives in it. As a result, several members of the supporting cast are hundreds of years older than they look. One, Nathan, turns out to be one of Richard's distant ancestors.
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Sword of Truth / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Sword of Truth / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Kahlan's conviction by Neville Ranson in Stone of Tears. He was biased against her from the beginning, presenting lying "witnesses" for the judges he's selected who quickly find her guilty.
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Sword of Truth / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Sword of Truth / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: Cited by certain characters as the reason they should be allowed to guide the main character's life. Subverted most of the time in that they're repeatedly called out on it, and probably caused a lot of the series' conflicts and strife by doing so. Only Nathan gets away with it on occasion, mostly because he's an actual prophet and has the prophecies, rather than interpreting them secondhand. Canonically, this is the defining trait of the Seeker of Truth. A true Seeker is literally morally infallible. Which, of course, makes all his pronouncements and speeches morally infallible too.
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Sword of Truth / int_5e5cf652	type	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
Sword of Truth / int_5e5cf652	comment	Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: Intentionally used by Zedd to demoralize a mob that wanted to burn him for witchcraft, by getting them to work themselves into believing a "warlock" is a nigh-unstoppable Big Bad and complimenting them for being willing to fight such a powerful foe.
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Sword of Truth / int_5e6ee70e	type	Takes One to Kill One
Sword of Truth / int_5e6ee70e	comment	Takes One to Kill One: The D'Harans say that they are "the steel against steel so that the Lord Rahl can be the magic against magic." Since only the Lord Rahl has the ability to combat magical threats, everyone else has the duty to combat physical threats (and they tend to get concerned when he tries to deal with them himself).
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Sword of Truth / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Sword of Truth / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The Law Of Nines, in addition to taking place in the second world created by Richard at the end of Confessor, is also set thousands of years after the main series.
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Sword of Truth / int_5fd20a7b	type	Suicidal Pacifism
Sword of Truth / int_5fd20a7b	comment	Suicidal Pacifism: The people of Bandakar display this, since they've taught for millennia that violence is always wrong, even to defend yourself or others. When the Imperial Order invades, they're therefore helpless and at the mercy of the soldiers who freely murder or rape people. Richard has to talk people out of it, after which many finally fight back (unrealistically well, since they never used weapons before), killing the Imperial Order soldiers with his help.
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Sword of Truth / int_60492b98	type	Have You Told Anyone Else?
Sword of Truth / int_60492b98	comment	Have You Told Anyone Else?: Jedidiah asks this of Sister Margaret in Stone of Tears. Her death follows shortly thereafter.
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Sword of Truth / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Sword of Truth / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Nicci willingly accepts her position as the No. 2 woman in Richard's life and wishes him and Kahlan happiness.
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Sword of Truth / int_60665480	type	Clock King
Sword of Truth / int_60665480	comment	Clock Queen: Kahlan's study of her guards' schedules allows her to cause no end of frustration to her captors.
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Sword of Truth / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
Sword of Truth / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Kahlan functions as Richard's second-in-command and sometimes equal in addition to being his love interest. When she isn't available, her role is filled by Nicci. Lesser lancers include General Reibisch, Benjamin Meiffert, and Chase.
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Sword of Truth / int_60f37373	type	Attack Reflector
Sword of Truth / int_60f37373	comment	Attack Reflector: The Mord-Sith can turn any spells cast at them back onto the caster. As a result, they're basically immune to magical attacks, so even a wizard of the most powerful level like Zedd can't fight them directly.
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Sword of Truth / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Sword of Truth / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: First there's Darken Rahl, but most of the noms de guerre the good guys end up with also. Zedd is the Wind of Death; Richard is the Bringer of Death; Nicci is Death's Mistress. And you better believe they earned those nicknames. Zedd deserves special mention, because he's a kindly old man alternating between wise advisor and perky side-quest assistant in the early books, to the point that if you haven't thought too much about the backstory or read Debt of Bones, it can seem like a complete 180 when he suddenly resorts to Weapons Of Mass Destruction, bio-weapons, and straight-up unapologetic genocide later in the series, as well as being shockingly casual about murder on little provocation even compared to Richard. The rest of the world is actually fairly justified in regarding him as something like Hitler crossed with Stalin riding an atomic bomb.
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Sword of Truth / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Sword of Truth / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Dena, Cara, General Trimack, Kevin Andellmere, Bruce.
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Sword of Truth / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Sword of Truth / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: In Phantom, Rachel manages to bluff her way past many people while escaping from captivity.
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Sword of Truth / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Sword of Truth / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Chase, consistently described as wearing a small armory (he had to actually dress down in order to infiltrate an enemy camp), knowing how to use every weapon he has to great effect, and is probably the deadliest non-magical person in the whole series.
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Sword of Truth / int_6509bb9f	type	Non-Indicative Name
Sword of Truth / int_6509bb9f	comment	Nonindicative Name: Goodkind loves using this one. The Sword of Truth's magic doesn't operate based on truth, but on the wielder's perceptions, whether or not they're accurate. A death spell doesn't kill people; it's used to make people think the target is dead. A maternity spell has little to do with motherhood, instead creating synchronization between the caster and the target (effectively taking them hostage). This is compared to the link a baby has to its mother in utero though. Confession makes a person fall in love with the Confessor, to the point they'll do anything they ask. This is used to make them confess any crimes they're accused of, but that is just one possible order they will obey, not the direct result from the Confessor's touch.
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Sword of Truth / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
Sword of Truth / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: Wizards have the ability to transform a man into a wolf, or presumably another animal, as evidenced by Brophy. This power is never used after the first book, even though it's not that far-fetched to imagine that it would be quite useful in a number of scenarios. However it was explicitly said to be a one-way change if the user only has additive magic. Though in theory, Richard could do it. Full-scale physical manipulation requires both sides of the power, which was one of the reasons the older Wizards sealed subtractive magic away, due to all the monstrosities created during the previous war by the unrestricted full use of magic.
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Sword of Truth / int_661a66d8	type	Animal Wrongs Group
Sword of Truth / int_661a66d8	comment	Animal Wrongs Group: Darken Rahl could get like this, depending on his mood. According to Cara, while he was a vegetarian and considered eating meat to be wrong, he usually didn't have a problem with people in the People's Palace selling or eating meat. But every once in a while, he would snap and brutally murder such a person while sobbingly asking how someone could be so cruel to animals. In one case, such a "punishment" consisted of beheading a man's horse, gutting it, and then jamming his head in the open wound, letting him drown in the guts.
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Sword of Truth / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Sword of Truth / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The first book's very long S&M sequence, with perfunctory torture scenes in every following installment. Plus all the political stuff impugning socialism. And the social stuff denouncing religion. Also, lots of almost-rape — as in, Kahlan almost gets raped in every book (apparently, people have a hard time remembering that messing with a Confessor is a bad idea). Also, some women will unbutton their shirts at the drop of a hat. On a lighter note, Faith of the Fallen has a lovingly detailed description of the manufacture of (the fantasy equivalent of) lardo di Colonnata, a form of pork fatback cured in marble basins with rosemary and other herbs.
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Sword of Truth / int_66583b22	type	Weapons Breaking Weapons
Sword of Truth / int_66583b22	comment	Weapons Breaking Weapons: The Sword of Truth can cut through any weapon without a similar enchantment. The first time Richard uses it to kill a man, the narration describes in detail how the Sword shatters the enemy's sword... and then his skull.
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Sword of Truth / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Sword of Truth / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Darken Rahl's mother is never seen and only mentioned once, when he notes that his father "discarded" her after she gave birth, which Darken himself approves of. Richard's mother died while he was just a boy.
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Sword of Truth / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
Sword of Truth / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Richard in the last few books of the series... not that he ever really did much with his magic in the first place.
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Sword of Truth / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Sword of Truth / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Double Subversion. The power of a Confessor is the power to turn anyone into a mindless slave by taking the small spark of love within them and enhancing it until their mind is filled with nothing but love for the Confessor who had touched them. At the end of the first book, Richard, because he already loves Kahlan with his entire being, is able to withstand her power without losing his mind.
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Sword of Truth / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
Sword of Truth / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut: Dalton Campbell is the last one to realize his wife's infidelity, and he had prided himself on their fidelity, much to his dismay.
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Sword of Truth / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Sword of Truth / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Within the Imperial Order, the people and the establishment alike take the sport of Ja'La very seriously. The society has virtually no social mobility, but becoming an elite player is a surefire way to gain tremendous status and glory.
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Sword of Truth / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Sword of Truth / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: The Con Dar, which Kahlan goes into when she thinks Richard's been killed. Also, Richard goes into one whenever someone threatens Kahlan.
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Sword of Truth / int_6bb25af4	type	Gratuitous Rape
Sword of Truth / int_6bb25af4	comment	Gratuitous Rape: Used as a cheap tactic by Goodkind to make his "heroes" look better by comparison.
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Sword of Truth / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Sword of Truth / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Darken" Rahl, for one. Very on the nose. Halsband Island as well, where the Palace of the Prophets is on which wizards are trained using a rada'han, a collar which controls them, which is what the word halsband means in Dutch. As Richard Rahl notes, it's also a term for the collar used in falconry to launch a hawk on the attack.
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Sword of Truth / int_6c3d1777	type	Magic A Is Magic A
Sword of Truth / int_6c3d1777	comment	Magic A Is Magic A: Attempted, sometimes with full-on Magi Babble explaining things, but it's never all that consistent. By the end of the series, it seems to boil down to "however Richard needs it to work." One thing that is kept consistent is that all magic has some kind of balancing factor or opposite. Additive magic has Subtractive magic. The Sword of Truth runs on both anger and love. The Rahl bloodline's enchantment that ensures there's always a Gifted heir results in the Anti-Magic pristinely un-gifted. It comes back as a clue in The Omen Machine: Richard doubts the validity of the machine's prophecies partly because they're all uniformly doom and gloom, with no positive prophecies.
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Sword of Truth / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Sword of Truth / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Sebastian, unable to reconcile his love for Jennsen with his belief in the Imperial Order, takes poison. Jennsen herself said he should.
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Sword of Truth / int_6d56cebf	type	Chess Motifs
Sword of Truth / int_6d56cebf	comment	Chess Motifs: Show up in The Omen Machine, with the titular contraption's prophecies "Queen takes pawn," and "Pawn takes queen." Most of the main characters don't recognize them at first, as in this 'verse, Chess is an obscure game played only in the far reaches of the empire.
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Sword of Truth / int_6e5287f4	type	Lady of Black Magic
Sword of Truth / int_6e5287f4	comment	Lady of Black Magic: Nicci and the other Sisters of the Dark obtained the ability to use Subtractive Magic (associated with the underworld) through a Deal with the Devil and an extremely painful ritual. After her Heelâ€“Face Turn, she uses that same magic on Richard's behalf.
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Sword of Truth / int_6eae387f	type	Dress Code
Sword of Truth / int_6eae387f	comment	Dress Code: The length of hair in the Midlands signifies a woman's rank: longest hair, highest rank. This is magically enforced for Confessors, who physically cannot cut their own hair. Kahlan, as the Mother Confessor, has the longest hair in the Midlands. In one book, a character whose husband gains a political position is shown with hair extensions to signify the rank until she grows it out herself.
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Sword of Truth / int_6fc2ca79	type	Fictionary
Sword of Truth / int_6fc2ca79	comment	Fictionary: High D'Haran, a rather Germanic language. Important because a lot of older prophecies are written in it.
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Sword of Truth / int_7041e520	type	Super Breeding Program
Sword of Truth / int_7041e520	comment	Super Breeding Program: It turns out that the Sisters of the Light have one. Hoping to breed more Wizards, who are dying out, the young Wizards training with them are encouraged to sire children with the Sisters of the Light (who are all sorceresses) or the muggle women in the city. In the latter case, they'll pay the mothers a stipend for raising the child. Verna had a daughter with one of the Wizards, Jedediah, who didn't have the gift and thus was given to another family. She kept in contact with her, and thus endures seeing her daughter die of old age as the Palace of the Prophets slows the Sisters' aging so they can live for centuries on end.
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Sword of Truth / int_710e51e0	type	Dressed Like a Dominatrix
Sword of Truth / int_710e51e0	comment	Dressed Like a Dominatrix: The Mord-Sith are an elite group of female warriors who are infamously cruel and devoid of compassion. Their primary purposes are to capture enemy wizards using special magic, and to torture captives into mindless obedience. They carry leather sticks that resemble riding crops but function as agony beams, and wear full-body leather in one of three colors. The closest to a "default" is brown. If they're wearing white, it symbolizes that they have complete control over their "pet," and thus don't need to punish them or draw blood. If they're wearing red, that means they fully intend to draw a lot of blood. One Mord-Sith wears her white leather on her wedding day, so take that as you will.
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Sword of Truth / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Sword of Truth / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: In Wizard's First Rule, while they're alone in the Mud People's Spirit House, Kahlan starts to seduce Richard by taking a bite of an apple, slowly feeding him another bite of the apple, and licking the juice off his chin. Though they don't go much further than that, Richard quips the next morning that he'll never look at an apple the same way again.
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Sword of Truth / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
Sword of Truth / int_722171e7	comment	The entire belief system of the culture that produced the evil pacifists is so absurd that only a Straw Character could accept it. And, indeed, many of them do get killed, because they won't fight back or even try to get out of the way when people with weapons are nearby and trying to kill each other.
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Sword of Truth / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
Sword of Truth / int_7276d0de	comment	The first book's very long S&M sequence, with perfunctory torture scenes in every following installment. Plus all the political stuff impugning socialism. And the social stuff denouncing religion. Also, lots of almost-rape — as in, Kahlan almost gets raped in every book (apparently, people have a hard time remembering that messing with a Confessor is a bad idea). Also, some women will unbutton their shirts at the drop of a hat.
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Sword of Truth / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Sword of Truth / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Pasha Maes, manipulated by Ulicia. Later, in the Chainfire trilogy, Ulicia is the unwitting pawn of Jagang.
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Sword of Truth / int_733f4235	type	Named in the Sequel
Sword of Truth / int_733f4235	comment	Named in the Sequel: In the third books, Richard studies an ancient diary of a long-dead wizard. The man never gives his name, so Richard merely refers to him as "Koloblicin" ("strong advisor") or simply "Kolo". A later Distant Prequel taking place in the wizard's time features him under his proper name of Quinn.
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Sword of Truth / int_745049a6	type	Suicide Watch
Sword of Truth / int_745049a6	comment	Suicide Watch: In the third book, a seer tells Kahlan that her half-sister (who suffered a bad case of Prison Rape resulting in Rape Leads to Insanity) is dreaming of hanging herself. She then says she'll sleep next to her this night.
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Sword of Truth / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Sword of Truth / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: The Imperial Order's army is so ridiculously huge (as in a number of millions in the main force alone, and plenty of reinforcements and reserves), keeping it supplied should be difficult to impossible within a medieval technological paradigm. Then again, they've got a vast empire that is supplying them, and they're mentioned as raiding everywhere they go for supplies. Having plenty of magic supporting it might also help some.
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Sword of Truth / int_75bbe725	type	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi
Sword of Truth / int_75bbe725	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi: Zigzagged in the series. The glamour spell, the series' equivalent of love potions, is seen by characters as tantamount to rape. Sorceresses who use it are either executed or expelled from the Palace of the Prophets (the Palace has a spell which slows down aging to about 10%, so there is little difference between the two for the exiles). On the other hand, the Confessors' power literally makes a person touched by it their devoted slave forever. While that's all problematic enough, it crosses into rape territory because having sex causes them to lose control of their power, Confessing whoever they do it with. This means that there were only two recorded cases of a Confessor able to have a mate who isn't forced to consent with mind control, and these cases were 3,000 years apart. Bear in mind that Confessors are on the good side, and this isn't treated as rape. Not that it is actually viewed as a good thing - it's merely the only way to promote the Confessor lines, which are essential to their legal system. The Confessors themselves hate the effect of their power, too, and specifically take mates they don't have feelings for since they can't bear to do that with a man they love. However, they're a bit [[Hypocrite hypocritical]] as they are still taking mates. In Faith of the Fallen Nicci puts a spell on Kahlan, so she will suffer whatever Nicci suffers, but tenfold, and uses it to have Richard following her. After that, she first tries to seduce Richard then, since she fails, doesn't fight when a local thug, Gadi, rapes her, so that Kahlan will feel it. The fact that she lured him on purpose doesn't change the fact that Gadi is a rapist (since he didn't have to do it and ignored consent), but it does mean that Nicci is effectively raping Kahlan. It's never brought up again. May double as Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female as well. A variation in Temple of the Winds. While there is no direct magic compulsion, the condition to access said temple (which they must enter) are two arranged marriages (Richard with Nadine, Kahlan with Drefan) that have to be consummated immediately. The fact that they have no choice and are couples that would never have been together otherwise, making it rape by coercion, is never brought up (as an added bonus, there is a mundane Bed Trick also involved that gets glossed over as well).
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Sword of Truth / int_75f56be2	type	Trail of Blood
Sword of Truth / int_75f56be2	comment	Trail of Blood: Subverted in Temple of the Winds. Kahlan and Nadine are tracking a badly wounded wizard through tunnels. When they reach a fork, Nadine says they should follow the path with blood... but Kahlan points out there was no blood before the fork, so it's obviously a false lead, and they should follow the other path - where there are no people.
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Sword of Truth / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Sword of Truth / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Nicci is always, always dead serious... except during certain scenes.
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Sword of Truth / int_76c72a08	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun
Sword of Truth / int_76c72a08	comment	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun: Minor elements in one book will turn out to be crucial to the plot of the next, with practically no foreshadowing; this can sometimes seem much more like an Ass Pull than anything that was planned in advance.
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Sword of Truth / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Sword of Truth / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Tobias and Lunetta Brogan apparently have an incestuous relationship, giving her saying she cast glamours for him in private.
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Sword of Truth / int_778b1d91	type	Unblockable Attack
Sword of Truth / int_778b1d91	comment	Unblockable Attack: The Sword of Truth can cut through anything, so long as its wielder thinks it needs to be cut. This includes swords and armor.
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Sword of Truth / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
Sword of Truth / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: In the series, any wizard can do this. War Wizards can do this on instinct alone. Sorceresses can learn to heal, but never as effectively as wizards. It has a nice integration of the Additive/Subtractive magic system: if someone has internal bleeding in their lungs, you have to remove that blood or they won't be able to breathe even if you rebuild their lungs. However, it's very hard to control Subtractive magic, so you have to be sure to not accidentally get rid of their organs. It fits the Crapsack World setting that even trying to heal someone risks horribly mutilating them.
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Sword of Truth / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
Sword of Truth / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Though not explicit, Richard is the result of his mother being raped by Darken Rahl. However, he was raised by the man she married, George Cypher, who he considers his real father. Kahlan too, as her father was married to another woman when her mother chose him as her mate. He is The Hero, she is the deuteragonist. No one brings up that they born out of wedlock though, making it downplayed.
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Sword of Truth / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
Sword of Truth / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: The failure of pacifism in the face of brutal enemies without conscience is a main theme of Naked Empire.
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Sword of Truth / int_79fa704c	type	Training the Peaceful Villagers
Sword of Truth / int_79fa704c	comment	Training the Peaceful Villagers: Richard to the Bandakarans that join him in Naked Empire. It's actually surprising just how well they take to violence, considering they're taught from birth that any and all violence, even in self-defense, is wrong.
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Sword of Truth / int_7a0b9d67	type	Redemption Demotion
Sword of Truth / int_7a0b9d67	comment	Redemption Demotion: Averted with Nicci. After joining the good guys, she retains her Subtractive Magic and uses it to great effect on several occasions.
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Sword of Truth / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
Sword of Truth / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: The Bandakar are philosophical skeptics who believe there's no reality as our senses are not reliable. When something goes wrong, they start chanting "Nothing is real" (until Richard easily shows this view is absurd).
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Sword of Truth / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
Sword of Truth / int_7a4013f3	comment	Deuteragonist: Kahlan Amnell in the series, with Richard as the protagonist and Zedd as the tritagonist. In the seventh book, Oba Rahl becomes this.note Richard and Kahlan have only a brief appearance, with Jennsen replacing them as the protagonist. In the Chainfire Trilogy, it is uncertain who is what, given the shifting of roles, but the top three are definitely Richard, Kahlan, and Nicci in some order.
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Sword of Truth / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Sword of Truth / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: The heroes are good and noble, and always right, while the villains all Kick the Dog like they're in an international dog-kicking competition. Or at least, that's how the author intends it. To many readers, it comes off as more Black-and-Grey Morality, given how ruthless the heroes can be (using torture, massacring people etc.) if not Evil vs. Evil at times.
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Sword of Truth / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Sword of Truth / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: The big-time magical spells and their counters tend to work out this way. A magical plague can be cured by invoking the chimes, entities whose arrival can destroy magic entirely. The Chainfire spell, which can destroy the world, can only be countered and undone by the Boxes of Orden, which can also destroy the world.
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Sword of Truth / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
Sword of Truth / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: The Imperial Order preaches that magic is evil, as it sets people with the gift over those without. Yet their leader Emperor Jagang, along with its spiritual guide Brother Narev are themselves magic users. This is explained away as since they use their powers in the goal of destroying magic eventually, it's fine. One of their followers (who himself is a magic user) even says he'll die too in the end.
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Sword of Truth / int_7d10c8a5	type	Skip the Anesthetic
Sword of Truth / int_7d10c8a5	comment	Skip the Anesthetic: In the first book, Kahlan is given some leaves to chew while she is having her wound treated. Upon learning it's an anesthetic, she spits the leaves out - the nature of her powers makes any loss of control too risky.
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Sword of Truth / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Sword of Truth / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Repeatedly, as a setup for the next book. Due to the way book 7 is written, in book 8 you don't even know why they broke it, just that it happened at the same time as the last book's events. In Chainfire, Nicci becomes very worried that she is to blame for Richard's "delusions", something that causes her a great deal of guilt. She also blames herself for using Subtractive magic to save his life, effectively giving the Blood Beast Richard's "scent".
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Sword of Truth / int_806b07e7	type	Black Eyes of Evil
Sword of Truth / int_806b07e7	comment	Black Eyes of Evil: Emperor Jagang's "nightmare" eyes are black and sign of his evil. When any Dreamwalker is experienced enough, their eyes turn, as "the mark of a Dreamwalker."
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Sword of Truth / int_80cd1f62	type	God of Evil
Sword of Truth / int_80cd1f62	comment	Jagang demonstrates his power to the captive Sisters of Dark by ordering a previously captured one to die... and showing them what it means to die when still formally serving a most displeased Keeper.
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Sword of Truth / int_80cdee8b	type	God of Good
Sword of Truth / int_80cdee8b	comment	The Sisters of the Light are sorceresses who train young women with the gift and shepherd prophets. Since Wizards have largely died out, they took over training young men as well, but this takes far longer. A religious group, the Sisters are worshippers of the Creator, though some within their ranks have now secretly sworn themselves to his mortal enemy the Keeper. They live in the Palace of the Prophets on Halsband Island, a place in the Old World, which is under a spell which slows their aging significantly, so they can live centuries.
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Sword of Truth / int_836f14cd	type	Filibuster Freefall
Sword of Truth / int_836f14cd	comment	Filibuster Freefall: The series began as a standard fantasy epic about a hero fighting his evil emperor father and other supernatural villains. While the first few held some hints of Objectivist themes, after several they had taken over, turning the series into an Author Tract supporting the philosophy. The villains soon all grew into thinly veiled communists, socialists, and pacifists, while the protagonist becomes an avatar of Objectivist beliefs. The shift in focus is emphasized when the protagonist occasionally has to explain why his new Objectivist beliefs contradict views he'd expressed earlier, before the free-fall.
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Sword of Truth / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
Sword of Truth / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Two examples—when Du Chaillu says she's going to abort her pregnancy (which was due to rape) Richard asks her not to, saying a child is not to blame for what it's father did (he was conceived this way himself). Verna also urges against it, due to her belief a child is a gift from the Creator. Du Chaillu concedes, and because they're married according to her people's custom, later considers the child to be also "his." Later Kahlan, having gotten pregnant by Richard, considers having an abortion due to having been told by a semi-reliable source that the child would be male, and the last time male Confessors were allowed to live past infancy they turned out to be Always Chaotic Evil; since then male Confessor children have always been killed at birth. Du Chaillu is then the one to say she shouldn't, but Kahlan still gets an abortifacient. She eventually decides against it...two minutes before she's beaten very nearly to death, which causes one from trauma anyway.
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Sword of Truth / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Sword of Truth / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: The Law Of Nines takes place in the parallel world created by Richard at the end of Confessor.
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Sword of Truth / int_8498284	type	Be a Whore to Get Your Man
Sword of Truth / int_8498284	comment	Be a Whore to Get Your Man: Attempted by Nadine in the backstory, which failed miserably. She and Richard had had something of a relationship, and she wanted him to step it up to the next level... and decided the best way to do that was to let Richard catch her schtupping his brother and invite him to join in. Three guesses how well that ingenious plot turned out.
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Sword of Truth / int_86331fae	type	The Anti-God
Sword of Truth / int_86331fae	comment	The Anti-God: The Keeper of the Underworld is the polar opposite from the Creator (at least per belief, since the latter never appears). He is the God of the Dead and God of Evil who loathes everything living, while the Creator's held to be a benevolent being who made all things (except the Keeper, perhaps).
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Sword of Truth / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Sword of Truth / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Richard's bodyguards Ulic and Egan disappear entirely without mention after Temple Of The Winds, and their sudden and conspicuous reappearance in Confessor seems to suggest Goodkind realized he'd forgotten all about them. There's also the seer girl from Stone of Tears who returns to tell the heroes (at great length) about a city conquered by the Order in the last trilogy, then just wanders off later on, never to be referenced again. In Soul of the Fire, Beata is a recurring viewpoint character with her own story arc and also one of the few to survive the events of the climax. She never shows up again.
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Sword of Truth / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Sword of Truth / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: This exchange from Temple of the Winds: The speaker in question then proves he wasn't kidding by ripping the other man's spine out through his stomach.
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Sword of Truth / int_86d4f985	type	Doing In the Wizard
Sword of Truth / int_86d4f985	comment	Doing In the Wizard: Done somewhat blatantly in the series and can mainly be ascribed to the Sisters of the Light. In the first few books, magic is described as being one's "gift" and prophecies in-world were very traditionally vague. Once the good Sisters are introduced, they bring along their own descriptions, describing the gift as one's "Han". And beyond the fourth book, the previously well-written and plot-relevant prophecies disappear and are replaced with quantum physics technobabble meant to sound more scientific than mystical, going beyond Magic A Is Magic A (this is also, not coincidentally, when the story becomes an Author Tract). At this point, the evil Sisters of the Dark also start stealing the "Han" of male wizards and using it for themselves, apparently through the power of spiky demon penis.
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Sword of Truth / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Sword of Truth / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Dream walkers. The D'Haran bond to the Lord Rahl is designed to block this sort of thing.
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Sword of Truth / int_87ee897	type	Crazy Cultural Comparison
Sword of Truth / int_87ee897	comment	Crazy Cultural Comparison: The Mud People greet each other by punching to demonstrate strength. Though there are cultural allowances to accomodate for things like age (the elders, for example, are given a more ceremonial smack rather than the rattle-your-teeth-and-knock-you-to-the-ground punches younger warriors might give each other).
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Sword of Truth / int_89b71276	type	Mind Your Step
Sword of Truth / int_89b71276	comment	In Faith of the Fallen, however, he chides three local youths for not wearing shirts, since it makes them seem like thugs, and advises them to instead put proper clothes on and learn how to fix a staircase.
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Sword of Truth / int_89f50aaa	type	Restraining Bolt
Sword of Truth / int_89f50aaa	comment	Restraining Bolt: The Rada'han is a magical collar which can prevent a wearer using their magic, cause them pain and control the actions they take when the controller desires and normally can only be removed with their help. It's used as a training device by Sisters of the Light on novice wizards. A sufficiently powerful wizard (e.g. Zedd) can still remove it themselves though.
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Sword of Truth / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
Sword of Truth / int_8a2d8868	comment	Kahlan also threatens to do this to Nicci, but she isn't intimidated at all.
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Sword of Truth / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Sword of Truth / int_8a4988bb	comment	The undisputed king of Mind Rape in the series is the Dreamwalker Emperor Jagang, who enters peoples dreams with his mind and thus takes control over them, being able to make them do anything which he wants, which is shown to be a horrifying experience.
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Sword of Truth / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
Sword of Truth / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: This occurs in the books as well as the series, whenever Kahlan uses her power and in many of Richard's fights, accompanied by the recurring phrases "Time was hers" and "Bringer of death" respectively.
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Sword of Truth / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Sword of Truth / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Flaw Exploitation: Nicci exploits Richard's love for Kahlan in order to capture him.
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Sword of Truth / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Sword of Truth / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Nicci is a stalker with a crush on Richard.
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Sword of Truth / int_8b9b55c2	type	Brotherhood of Evil
Sword of Truth / int_8b9b55c2	comment	Brotherhood of Evil: A gender flipped example: the Sisters of the Dark is an organization of evil sorcerers within the Sisters of the Light secretly serving the Keeper.
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Sword of Truth / int_8fb244bd	type	Replaced with Replica
Sword of Truth / int_8fb244bd	comment	Replaced with Replica: Giller replaces one of the Boxes Of Orden with a fake to keep it out of Darken Rahl's hands. Unfortunately for him, Rahl arrives earlier than expected, and since he cannot be fooled, Giller performs a Heroic Sacrifice while an accomplice gets away with the box.
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Sword of Truth / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Sword of Truth / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: Slides take control of animals through projecting their souls, plus people's they captured, into various creatures' bodies.
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Sword of Truth / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Sword of Truth / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Merissa and Nicci. The former leans almost to being The Vamp, while the later is more of an Unfettered Dark Action Girl.
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Sword of Truth / int_911db50a	type	Bequeathed Power
Sword of Truth / int_911db50a	comment	Bequeathed Power: Each Sister of Light, if she fails to convince a person with the gift to come train with them, will kill herself and pass her life force to another so that when the second one (or third one) attempts, she has stronger Mind Control powers to add to her arguments.
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Sword of Truth / int_9123208f	type	Breaching the Wall
Sword of Truth / int_9123208f	comment	Breaching the Wall: There were two cases of magical barriers put up in order to stop a war. The first is broken by the Big Bad of the first book in order to have an easier time conquering and looking for the McGuffins, the second is deactivated by the protagonist so that he can stop The Keeper from breaching the barrier between life and death, destroying everyone.
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Sword of Truth / int_9141fba3	type	Fountain of Youth
Sword of Truth / int_9141fba3	comment	Fountain of Youth: There's a spell on the Palace of Prophets which makes people inside age much slower than normal, so they'll live for centuries, as wizards there need that much time for learning magic.
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Sword of Truth / int_918ef79f	type	Our Mages Are Different
Sword of Truth / int_918ef79f	comment	Our Mages Are Different: Most wizards and sorceresses are a Race and Lottery Winners, but learn their powers like Scholars. The gift is sometimes inherited from one's ancestors (less and less common ever since a major magical disruption 3,000 years ago), and sometimes, it seems, pops on its own (there used to be a time when nearly everyone was a wizard, so there isn't much difference). However, it is possible for a wizard to take an apprentice without a gift, and teach him to use magic, with the process probably using some magical procedures (Mutants). The wizards trained that way are, apparently, considerably less capable. Subtractive magic is also Theurgic, as it requires a Deal with the Devil unless the wizard is born with the most powerful gift, that of the war wizard. War wizards and prophets are wizards with extra powers, even more rare than the less powerful kind. Creatures of magic gain their powers through various, unique means. Most are Mutants (created by ancient wizards using lost magical techniques) and a Race (passing it down to their children with rates of inheritance between 1% and 100%). Dreamwalkers and Sorcerers are also Lottery Winners, with one of each being born to no magical parentage after 3,000 years. Mord-Sith and Slides are purely Mutants, but the processes of becoming one are both a Fate Worse than Death. Constructed magic is invested in items and can be used to some degree by anyone (Gadget Users). Certain people are better at using the items than others, especially with the Sword of Truth, which only grants all of its powers to a true Seeker. The cave paintings in Tamarang overlap with Artists, as it requires at least a rudimentary skill in drawing and takes longer to learn with less apt pupils, like Violet.
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Sword of Truth / int_91e3f284	type	Military Mage
Sword of Truth / int_91e3f284	comment	Military Mage: A number of these serve on both sides, willing or not. In most cases they seem to be functionally artillery, with the most powerful (like Zedd) fitting into the One-Man Army role. Richard himself is a War Wizard, one who with both kinds of magic is the most capable among them.
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Sword of Truth / int_91e9d733	type	Magi Babble
Sword of Truth / int_91e9d733	comment	Attempted, sometimes with full-on Magi Babble explaining things, but it's never all that consistent. By the end of the series, it seems to boil down to "however Richard needs it to work."
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Sword of Truth / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
Sword of Truth / int_931fc523	comment	Back for the Finale: The Chainfire trilogy sees the return of just about every significant character in the series at one point or another, including those who were Put on a Bus (Gratch), those who just hadn't shown up in a few books (The Mud People), and those whom the author had apparently simply forgotten about in the meantime (Ulic and Egan).
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Sword of Truth / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
Sword of Truth / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Richard kills his father, Darken Rahl. This was wholly justified, as his father was an evil tyrant attempting to take over the world. He also didn't even know they were related until then.
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Sword of Truth / int_93b39134	type	Training the Gift of Magic
Sword of Truth / int_93b39134	comment	Training the Gift of Magic: People who have the gift need training for them to use magic (this requires touching their "Han", or life force). The gifted are trained in the Palace of the Prophets. When sorceresses, this is fairly easy. However, if they're wizards this can take centuries. As a result, the Palace is under a spell which stops people aging while they're there so they don't simply die of old age before this is possible. Wizards used to be trained in the Wizards' Keep, but the old wizards have died out except for Zedd by the time of the series (he's too busy to train anyone as well).
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Sword of Truth / int_94eb5311	type	Geometric Magic
Sword of Truth / int_94eb5311	comment	Geometric Magic: The books contain several examples. The most powerful spells in the book require special signs drawn in powdered herbs, bone, blood, and, for the most powerful spells, sorcerer's sand (crystallized wizard bones from 3000 years ago). It is stated that in the last case, even the smallest mistake cannot be corrected and means death. At least one wizard family lived in an entire palace built as a magical sign. There is also a form of magic where an artist uses various shapes, formulas, and such in conjunction with a painting of a person in order to place curses on them.
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Sword of Truth / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Sword of Truth / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Verna suffered this. She and Jedediah, a wizard training in the Palace of the Prophets, had a daughter together (wizards and sorceresses are encouraged to have relationships in hopes that they will produce more gifted people). However, their daughter was ungifted, and thus given to a family outside the Palace to raise. Verna kept in contact with her, but as she was affected with the Palace's anti-aging spell, it means her daughter died from old age as she went on to live many years more.
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Sword of Truth / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Sword of Truth / int_97522514	comment	Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door: Nicci. It's hard to name a major faction, good or bad, that she hasn't served at one point. In the end, she is ultimately good.
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Sword of Truth / int_9793f1b9	type	Solitary Sorceress
Sword of Truth / int_9793f1b9	comment	Solitary Sorceress: Two regulars in the series: Adie, a sorceress who helps early on and eventually becomes one of Zedd's traveling companions, and Shota, a witch who is more antisocial, telling and giving things to Richard that he doesn't like but she deems to be for his own good.
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Sword of Truth / int_9823f7c	type	ProudWarriorRace
Sword of Truth / int_9823f7c	comment	Proud Warrior Race: The Mud People, who among other cultural quirks, slap or punch one another on greeting as a way to show respect for one's strength. A full-on punch is reserved for chance meetings between adult males outside the village; Kahlan is greeted with an open-handed slap; inside the village, a gentle slap, little more than a light tap, is used, and the narration notes that this custom "preserves order, and teeth." Richard makes a good impression on the Mud People by laying out the first one he meets, who then quips that while he's glad Richard respects him so much, he hopes that Richard doesn't come to respect him any more than he already does.
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Sword of Truth / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Sword of Truth / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: By book 3, it becomes evident that Prelate Annalina has been manipulating events from before the protagonist was born.
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Sword of Truth / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Sword of Truth / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: The main villains of the series (The Imperial Order) use this to justify the murder of entire cities full of people. They reason that they are creating the perfect world, and that anybody who disagrees with them has no place in it. More broadly, they believe anyone in need should be served by the rest (although they're hypocrites about much of it).
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Sword of Truth / int_9b9d2629	type	Evil Will Fail
Sword of Truth / int_9b9d2629	comment	Evil Will Fail: Jagang's empire is completely oppressive to individuality and self-interest. As a result, when a high ranking member falls in love and is confronted with the dissonance of what he feels and what he believes, he commits suicide. Not to mention it has a completely ridiculous economy that couldn't possibly survive in the long run. One of the main complaints with the series is that the later books turn this into an anvil to be dropped repeatedly on the reader's head in exposition and monologue form.
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Sword of Truth / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Sword of Truth / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Richard learning the Dance With Death half way through Stone of Tears turns him from a woods guide who just happens to have a magic sword into a nearly unbeatable swordsman.
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Sword of Truth / int_9bd92eef	type	Astral Projection
Sword of Truth / int_9bd92eef	comment	Astral Projection: The Slides can project their souls, plus those of people's whom they capture, into animals to control them or use their eyes and ears.
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Sword of Truth / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Sword of Truth / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: The Imperial Order are a fantasy version, who use an insanely dysfunctional command economy and try to force equality on everyone because of their religion. Given that the trope is played very, very straight, the reader should also expect almost all senior figures to really be Straw Hypocrites who merely use the rhetoric of "caring about our fellow man" to line their own pockets. However, Sister Nicci is a true believer until Richard converts her.
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Sword of Truth / int_9dfd7154	type	Fridge Logic
Sword of Truth / int_9dfd7154	comment	In Stone of Tears, Richard takes off his shirt (while holding his sword) before laying waste to 30 blade masters for "fluidity." Du Chaillu didn't really seem to mind he'd killed all five of her husbands.
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Sword of Truth / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Sword of Truth / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Kahlan talks like this when she gets angry. Most notably in Wizard's First Rule when Michael grabbed her in the wrong place.
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Sword of Truth / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Sword of Truth / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Magic is defined as Additive and Subtractive, with the "magic sand" for Additive magic being pure white and for Subtractive magic being as black as space. Subtractive magic can also be granted only by making a Deal with the Devil by the time of the books, though in the past it was available to most mages and neutral. While it destroys things (in contrast to Additive, which creates them) it's not inherently evil. Rather, Subtractive's issue is due to its source, and it reemerges in a neutral way after Richard's born with both.
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Sword of Truth / int_9e491b41	type	Empathic Healer
Sword of Truth / int_9e491b41	comment	Empathic Healer: This is how wizardly healing works in the series. The wizard doing the healing doesn't receive the same wounds, but has to take some of the pain that is associated with getting the wound in the first place in order to do it. For example, restoring someone's severed foot makes the wizard take on the pain of it getting bitten off.
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Sword of Truth / int_a04eb363	type	Lizard Folk
Sword of Truth / int_a04eb363	comment	Lizard Folk: Mriswith, a race that came from a Gone Horribly Right attempt to give wizards invisibility. They also overlap with Bee People, since, though covered with scales and possessing Chameleon Camouflage, they procreate through a dragon sized, pheromone communicating Hive Queen.
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Sword of Truth / int_a284511d	type	Balance Between Good and Evil
Sword of Truth / int_a284511d	comment	Balance Between Good and Evil: Ann says to Richard at one point that she believes getting rid of the Keeper (who embodies death and is the main Big Bad in the early series) would not be a good thing, unlike the view other Sisters of the Light have. She explains that without the Keeper nothing would ever die. Very soon there would be no room for anyone in the world and they'd be left as utterly miserable immortals forever. She warns him never to tell anyone about her view, because many would consider it heresy and proof that she's a servant of the Keeper herself.
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Sword of Truth / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Sword of Truth / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Mord-Sith to any Lord Rahl, due to brutal brainwashing from a young age, which includes being forced to kill their fathers. They still stick around even after Richard freed them (deciding that someone who would do that is worth following), and some were happier than most after he gave them more... freedom.
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Sword of Truth / int_a6088e51	type	Generational Magic Decline
Sword of Truth / int_a6088e51	comment	Generational Magic Decline: Many forms of magic have died out or are very rare, and wizards in general have now been depleted due to common magical battles wiping out many. The Sisters of the Light have a positive eugenics program to remedy this: they encourage the wizards who study under them to father children with young women in the area (or Sisters), and pay the families for raising them, hoping it will breed more. However, even by doing so their numbers remain low, because the magical gift is not always passed down.
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Sword of Truth / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Sword of Truth / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Nicci plays a fairly minor role in Stone of Tears, but becomes a major character in Faith of the Fallen and remains one during the rest of the series.
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Sword of Truth / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Sword of Truth / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Nathan Rahl acts like an idiotic manchild most of the time, but drops the act as soon as things get serious. Zedd likes to play up to people's expectations that he's a silly old coot, only to surprise them at the best of moments.
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Sword of Truth / int_a864d2d8	type	Commie Land
Sword of Truth / int_a864d2d8	comment	Commie Land: Faith of the Fallen, being inspired by Ayn Rand's work, involves the protagonist being forced to live in a collectivist dystopian city of The Empire.
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Sword of Truth / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
Sword of Truth / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: When the series begins, all Confessors except for Kahlan have been murdered on orders of Darken Rahl. She's nearly murdered too but is saved by Richard. Later on, the Imperial Order openly wants to kill all magic users, magical creatures, and destroy magic itself. Yet still have magic users in their ranks, and are even led by them. Regardless of whatever skewed mindset is at work there, they never manage to.
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Sword of Truth / int_ab19d173	type	Art Attacker
Sword of Truth / int_ab19d173	comment	Art Attacker: There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for Sympathetic Magic.
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Sword of Truth / int_abc28948	type	Straw Misogynist
Sword of Truth / int_abc28948	comment	Straw Misogynist: Almost all male villains. For some specific examples, Darken Rahl thinks women are hardly rational or intelligent at all, good only for having children, while the villain of Temple of the Winds is a literal misogynistic Serial Killer. Emperor Jagang seems to view them as good only for sexual abuse by him or his army (or in the case of sorceresses, also as slave mooks).
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Sword of Truth / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
Sword of Truth / int_abc55125	comment	Character Filibuster: Especially towards the end of the series, characters' speeches often go on for pages at a time; in one case, such an oration lasts for two whole chapters. Many of these are also author filibusters. A particularly egregious examples is in Naked Empire, where Richard convinces the completely pacifist Bandukar to take up arms at his side against the Imperial Order soldiers through a series of lectures which take up much of each chapter where they appear. It seems he somehow became a master of oratory (and philosophy) overnight, since we see no real signs of this before. The Bandukar simply give up beliefs they have held for millennia with only a token resistance.
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Sword of Truth / int_abf92023	comment	Wolf Man: Brophy is literally a man-sized wolf.
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Sword of Truth / int_ac5afbd8	comment	Hellfire: Wizard's fire.
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Sword of Truth / int_acbd5c12	type	Perfect Pacifist People
Sword of Truth / int_acbd5c12	comment	Perfect Pacifist People: Deconstructed by the Bandakar society. Exiled beyond a magical boundary for being pristinely ungifted, they adapted by forming a near-unbreakable community bond, going so far as to outlaw any form of violence against each other. The deconstruction comes when the heroes find out that their strict pacifist philosophy extends even to self-defense in any form. Deviant criminals who've committed murder are attempted to be rehabilitated several times beyond the point of common sense. As a last measure, they subdue the offender and dump him down a cliff that leads outside the boundary as a form of exile. They won't attack or drive off the predatory birds that occasionally fly away with young children. And when the Imperial Order comes to call, the most they offer is a meek protest when its soldiers proceed to kidnap and rape women of all ages in a program of systematic breeding to cultivate their ungifted trait. Even when the heroes attempt to train them to fight back, the Bandakarans mostly refuse, saying that they have no right to judge the men of the Order as they don't know the circumstances under which they're acting, and try to stop the heroes from fighting with them. They're then slaughtered as they got in the way.
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Sword of Truth / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Sword of Truth / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Kahlan being taught about war by her father. She uses that knowledge of warfare to help obliterate an army more than 10 times the force she had.
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Sword of Truth / int_addc723c	type	Neuro-Vault
Sword of Truth / int_addc723c	comment	Neuro-Vault: Wizard's First Rule revolves around Darken Rahl's attempts to extract the contents of the Book of Counted Shadows from Richard's mind.
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Sword of Truth / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Sword of Truth / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Though completely humorless, Nicci has a tendency to make snarky remarks of black humor. Zedd does not find these very amusing at all. Zedd and Nathan get into the more usual type, and apparently Richard used to be like this, but we never see it in the series.
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Sword of Truth / int_af11866	type	Wizarding School
Sword of Truth / int_af11866	comment	Wizarding School: The Palace of the Prophets. Bonus points for being built as a spell-form, preventing the Sorceresses, Wizards, and especially the Prophets from aging, allowing them to accrue truly terrifying amounts of knowledge. Similarly, the Wizards' Keep used to be this, but slowly ran out of Wizards.
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Sword of Truth / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Sword of Truth / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Zedd and Richard: "Nothing is ever easy." Richard: "Bringer of death.", "Dead is dead." Zedd: "Bags!"
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Sword of Truth / int_b116ac06	type	Weapon of Mass Destruction
Sword of Truth / int_b116ac06	comment	Weapon of Mass Destruction: At one point, Zedd detonates what amounts to a magical nuclear bomb in the middle of the Imperial Order's ranks.
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Sword of Truth / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Sword of Truth / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Three examples occur in the series. Darken Rahl kills all of his children who he knew about, since none had magic (he wanted a gifted heir). Oba's mother does nothing but belittle him that we see, and this may be why he has an utter Lack of Empathy (though his birth father Darken Rahl displays the same trait). Nicci's mother was entirely unsympathetic to her daughter's needs, and even hit her when Nicci came for comfort over being frightened by a beggar, saying she should accept this. She demanded utter self-denial and service to others from Nicci, which left her a self-loathing mess for years to come. This explains why she served the Keeper and then the Imperial Order, since both fed into this.
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Sword of Truth / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Sword of Truth / int_b1346878	comment	Creatures of magic gain their powers through various, unique means. Most are Mutants (created by ancient wizards using lost magical techniques) and a Race (passing it down to their children with rates of inheritance between 1% and 100%). Dreamwalkers and Sorcerers are also Lottery Winners, with one of each being born to no magical parentage after 3,000 years. Mord-Sith and Slides are purely Mutants, but the processes of becoming one are both a Fate Worse than Death.
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Sword of Truth / int_b1e5dde1	type	Earth All Along
Sword of Truth / int_b1e5dde1	comment	Earth All Along: An interesting example. Their world isn't our world, however it was directly responsible for the creation of it.
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Sword of Truth / int_b2279346	type	RetCon
Sword of Truth / int_b2279346	comment	Retcon: The Book of Counted Shadows is the key to unlocking the magic of Orden in the first book (proved by its role in awakening Richard's Gift). By the time the magic of Orden returns at the end of the series, it isn't.
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Sword of Truth / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
Sword of Truth / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The evil spirit chicken monster in Soul of the Fire.
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Sword of Truth / int_b506c9ff	type	Hide Your Lesbians
Sword of Truth / int_b506c9ff	comment	Hide Your Lesbians: The Mord-Sith have significant numbers of same-sex relationships, but the only one between two named characters had one of them die in the next book after she was introduced. The surviving member of that pair is implied to have started up a new relationship with another named Mord-Sith in the last book. All of the relationships were basically informed attributes, such that if they weren't stated to be a couple readers wouldn't know necessarily they're not just friends.
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Sword of Truth / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Sword of Truth / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The evil politicians who are the primary villains in the fifth book are supposedly modeled on Bill and Hillary Clinton, with whom they share a set of initials. They get an STD and die.
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Sword of Truth / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Sword of Truth / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live/Stupid Good: The entire belief system of the culture that produced the evil pacifists is so absurd that only a Straw Character could accept it. And, indeed, many of them do get killed, because they won't fight back or even try to get out of the way when people with weapons are nearby and trying to kill each other. Several Sisters of the Light show this in Stone of Tears and Blood of the Fold. Taken to the full extent with Pasha Maes.
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Sword of Truth / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
Sword of Truth / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Many times, especially in the later books, Richard would deliver messages which reflected the author's own views (some other characters occasionally do this too). It's rare that such views were in any respect foreshadowed or justified by what we know about the characters, and often those who they speak with put up only token objections before quickly converting to them, even if they went against very old, ingrained belief systems.
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Sword of Truth / int_b63019a5	type	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn
Sword of Truth / int_b63019a5	comment	High-Heelâ€“Face Turn: Nicci.
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Sword of Truth / int_b74ce25a	type	Toad Licking
Sword of Truth / int_b74ce25a	comment	Toad Licking: In one of the novels, hallucinogenic toads are used as part of a tribal ritual, but they're not actually licked as the hallucinogens in question are transmitted through skin contact.
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Sword of Truth / int_b82b5723	type	Convulsive Seizures
Sword of Truth / int_b82b5723	comment	Convulsive Seizures
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Sword of Truth / int_b84491a3	type	Wrong Insult Offence
Sword of Truth / int_b84491a3	comment	Wrong Insult Offence: In the first book, a mob comes to Zedd's house intending to lynch him because he's a witch. He starts his dialogue with them by asking to clarify whether they want to kill him for sorcery, or simply demean him by calling him a girl.
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Sword of Truth / int_b8629877	type	Evil Vegetarian
Sword of Truth / int_b8629877	comment	Evil Vegetarian: Darken Rahl. He refused to eat meat but when he saw a man mistreat a horse, he cut open the horse and drowned the man in its entrails, sobbing over how someone could be so cruel to animals. He also has no problem killing and cannibalizing humans for magic (though he does find it gross).
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Sword of Truth / int_b8dde2	type	Evil Overlord
Sword of Truth / int_b8dde2	comment	Evil Overlord: In the first book, Darken Rahl. Starting with the third book, Emperor Jagang. Pillars of Creation reveals that the Imperial Order (including Jagang himself) believe this of Richard.
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Sword of Truth / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Sword of Truth / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: When the Confessors use their gift on an innocent person, they're then transformed into animals since Confession affects them less. Brophy is one of these, who'd been transformed into a wolf. He shows up in the first book. In his case however he can still talk and is devoted to Kahlan, who'd Confessed him, like a human Confession victim. The mriswith descend from long ago humans ancient wizards experimented on to make them invisible. However, this ended up leaving them as Lizard Folk crossed with Bee People (in how they reproduce) although they can turn invisible too. The Slith is a living magical portal who had been transformed into this long ago by magic. Richard asks about her life prior to this, and it turns out she'd been a prostitute who had wizard clients. This made her considered disposable and a candidate for transformation. Richard is disgusted to hear how she was treated though, and it makes him realize those long dead wizards were evil men, even those on the supposed "good" side.
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Sword of Truth / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Sword of Truth / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Names such as Richard, Warren and Nicci are present alongside Kahlan, Zeddicus and Jagang. Both normal and unusual names can be found in almost equal measure anywhere in the world, among heroes, muggles and antagonists. How the real-world names (with histories and etymologies that are incompatible at best with the fictional languages and cultures of the setting) ended up in this world is never addressed.
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Sword of Truth / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
Sword of Truth / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: Nicci. Confessors also use this idea as a public image, adopting their "Confessor's Face."
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Sword of Truth / int_ba0e3912	type	Power Nullifier
Sword of Truth / int_ba0e3912	comment	Power Nullifier: The Rada'han, whatever the hell Six and Violet were doing in Phantom.
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Sword of Truth / int_ba557643	type	Terms of Endangerment
Sword of Truth / int_ba557643	comment	Terms of Endangerment: Jagang is very fond of calling women who oppose him "Darling."
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Sword of Truth / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Sword of Truth / int_bb5126ec	comment	Richard constantly rejects the guidance of prophecy, calling it unreliable, even though every single time the prophecies end up coming true, just not in the expected way.
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Sword of Truth / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Sword of Truth / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Richard Rahl, and Du Chaillu's fourth child. Also the children of Confessors, since their fathers are always brainwashed, though it's not actually referred to as rape.
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Sword of Truth / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Sword of Truth / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Richard slowly turns into one, despite being warned against doing so. Then there's the series canonical Knight Templar, Sister Nicci. The Blood of the Fold, an Anti-Magical Faction who enslave or purge magic-users. While magic is in fact very dangerous in this setting, and the storyline that features them shows that they sort of have a point about wanting to control it to keep ordinary people safe, the means they use to do it are brutal and inhumane at best and unforgivable at worst.
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Sword of Truth / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
Sword of Truth / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: Tobias Brogan, who not only hates magic and its users, but leads the Blood of the Fold, a group intent on killing them all, himself has the gift. It's a secret his mother and sister kept hidden from him all of his life. The protagonist Richard Rahl is clearly able to recognize Brogan has the gift, confusing Brogan greatly during a discussion on defeating insidious evil, and telling him "Be careful the shadow you chase is not the one you cast." Brogan explicitly does not understand what Richard is hinting at. After he finds out, it drives him mad.
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Sword of Truth / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Sword of Truth / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Used a few times in the first book. Also inverted once. A man entreats Richard and Kahlan to follow them, saying it was sent by their friend, the wizard. Richard instinctively asks "Zedd?" and the man responds in the affirmative. But while they're following him, Richard notices something's off, and demands the man tell them their friend's name. The man repeats that it's Zedd, at which point Richard points out he'd know that because Richard told him, and demands the wizard's full name. The man is then revealed as a shapeshifting creature.
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Sword of Truth / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Sword of Truth / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Nicci, having had "relations" with men in circumstances that vary to an insane degree, from rape, to ritual sex with a namble, to being handed to random men as "punishment", to willingly/semi-willingly staying as Jagang's consort, to one case that could almost be called prostitution, to one scenario where she slept with a man she actually disliked just to get revenge on Richard and Kahlan.
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Sword of Truth / int_bf6907cb	type	Destroyer Deity
Sword of Truth / int_bf6907cb	comment	Destroyer Deity: The Keeper of the Underworld wants to kill all living things, so he can torture them forever in the afterlife.
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Sword of Truth / int_bfa7a7e7	type	God of the Dead
Sword of Truth / int_bfa7a7e7	comment	God of the Dead: The Keeper of the Underworld, who rules over spirits in the afterlife. Unlike in many examples though, he is explicitly a malevolent being.
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Sword of Truth / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
Sword of Truth / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Richard many times, in most of the novels. He seems incapable of feeling anger in particular without announcing it. Other emotions get this to a lesser extent.
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Sword of Truth / int_c09c2921	type	Dystopian Edict
Sword of Truth / int_c09c2921	comment	Dystopian Edict: In the first book, Darken Rahl outlaws the use of fire in the lands he holds and conquers, because he was scarred by Wizard's Fire as a child.
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Sword of Truth / int_c20f49de	type	Tautological Templar
Sword of Truth / int_c20f49de	comment	Tautological Templar: Discussed in the first book, when Zedd describes Darken Rahl's mindset as being like this. Later, however, in Naked Empire, the author argues, completely seriously, that it's not only morally permissible, but morally necessary, to kill anyone who stands in the way of protecting your own life, regardless of what other circumstances may apply.
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Sword of Truth / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Sword of Truth / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: Richard doesn't actually know anything about magic, but the powers he eventually develops work instinctively; he does impossible feats of magic without knowing the slightest thing about how he's doing it. Frequently used as an Ass Pull.
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Sword of Truth / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Sword of Truth / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Confessors' power results in the person subject to it turning into a wholly brainwashed love slave. They take "mates" from among men to reproduce. Yet this is never called rape, even though after that's done their mates can't refuse to consent. This is particularly hypocritical as the Confessors are in the "good" camp, while rape is ubiquitously used as a mark of their evil enemies.
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Sword of Truth / int_c2c9748c	type	Standard Fantasy Setting
Sword of Truth / int_c2c9748c	comment	Standard Fantasy Setting: The series shares some of the elements, but mainly uses them as a vehicle for its Author Tract, particularly when the latter begins to take precedence over the fantasy elements.
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Sword of Truth / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Sword of Truth / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: The Sword of Truth is only effective against objects or opponents that the wielder believes are justified in attacking. Thus, a weapon called the Sword of Truth can only be used against opponents the wielder perceives as being guilty or deserving, not necessary opponents that actually are guilty.
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Sword of Truth / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Sword of Truth / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Warren. By all appearances, he is a class A nerd. But then Faith of the Fallen reminds us he's also a natural born wizard who can throw Wizard's Fire around with the best of 'em.
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Sword of Truth / int_c4500946	type	Break His Heart to Save Him
Sword of Truth / int_c4500946	comment	Break His Heart to Save Him: This is how Kahlan persuades Richard to go away with the Sisters of the Light in Stone of Tears. Later, when Richard has to do the same thing to his pet gar Gratch, he realizes what Kahlan was actually doing.
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Sword of Truth / int_c4eff1b7	type	Sorcerous Overlord
Sword of Truth / int_c4eff1b7	comment	Sorcerous Overlord: Darken Rahl, lord of the D'Haran Empire. Later Emperor Jagang, head of the Imperial Order. Both have powerful magic and rule as brutal despots. Some might also see Richard as this later on, despite him officially being the hero, since he becomes ruler of the D Empire and uses more than a little brutality.
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Sword of Truth / int_c5ee8215	type	Magical Society
Sword of Truth / int_c5ee8215	comment	Magical Society: The Palace of the Prophets in the Sword of Truth series. Sisters of the Light, an order of sorceresses, live there and have a Wizarding School. It's also suggested that something of this nature existed within the Wizard's Keep at Aydindril, but is no more because there are so few wizards left.
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Sword of Truth / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Sword of Truth / int_c6538cc6	comment	The Dulcinea Effect: Richard first meets Kahlan when he spots her being pursued by four men who appear to mean her harm in the woods.
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Sword of Truth / int_c66f2bb5	type	Witch Hunt
Sword of Truth / int_c66f2bb5	comment	Witch Hunt: The Blood of the Fold, a group from Nicobarese that believes people with magic are evil, seeks to conduct these in the eponymous book. Whenever they face real magic users (as opposed to muggles they've accused, or sympathizers) they're naturally screwed unless their leader hypocritically uses his sister (a sorceress) to even the odds.
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Sword of Truth / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Sword of Truth / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Richard Cypher's real name is actually Richard Rahl. He is a Child Of Rape by Darken Rahl, and has inherited his kingdom and magical powers. Neither of them knows this until Zedd reveals it.
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Sword of Truth / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Sword of Truth / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Learning about the "training" the Mord-Sith go through, which consists of a particularly horrifying form of Break the Cutie (on the theory that the people who start out with the most empathy eventually become the best torturers), eventually results in Richard feeling sorry for and forgiving the Mord-Sith that's torturing him.
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Sword of Truth / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Sword of Truth / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: Mord-Sith, the elite D'Haran women warriors, are selected from the gentlest girls, then they're broken through torture. After suffering it themselves, they're forced to witness their mothers being tortured fatally, then do the same with their fathers. Once that's done, they train to be full Mord-Sith.
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Sword of Truth / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Sword of Truth / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: In Wizard's First Rule, it's Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd, the last Seeker, Confessor, and First Wizard, respectively. In Temple of the Winds, it's Richard, Kahlan, and Cara. In Chainfire, it's Richard, Cara, and Nicci.
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Sword of Truth / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Sword of Truth / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Wizard's Life Fire, where a wizard who knows he's doomed throws literally everything he has into Wizard's Fire; one demonstration of it from a Wizard of the Second Order (considerably less powerful than Zedd) is enough to vaporize people instantly. Kahlan also threatens to do this to Nicci, but she isn't intimidated at all. When Zedd is captured by the Imperial Order and forced to identify magic items, he tries to use a music box with a Sunset Spell on it in this fashion. Fortunately for him, he gets rescued in between triggering it and the explosion itself, which conveniently helps cover said escape.
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Sword of Truth / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Sword of Truth / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Richard hates prophecy and goes his own way. About half the time he succeeds, half the time, not so much. But then someone always rationalizes it as prophecy being misinterpreted and Richard actually doing what the prophecy said in the first place. However, it may not be rationalization. A repeated theme is that only a Prophet has ANY chance whatsoever of correctly interpreting a Prophecy, and even then is extremely unlikely to be able to get the real meaning across to anyone other than another Prophet. A Prophet can, however, attempt to manipulate events...
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Sword of Truth / int_cec7dac0	type	The Magocracy
Sword of Truth / int_cec7dac0	comment	The Magocracy: Aidandril is a city ruled by the Mother Confessor, a woman whose touch can make anyone fall so in love with them they'll do whatever they desire. D'Hara has been ruled by the House of Rahl for centuries, with all of them being powerful wizards. It's said the Rahls will only accept an heir with the gift, something insured by their magic (though it has the side effect of also creating the Pristinely Ungifted, people who not only can't do it, but are immune to most magic). The Imperial Order is run by two magic users, Emperor Jagang and Brother Narev, despite their professed hatred for magic and those with it.
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Sword of Truth / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Sword of Truth / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: At the end of Wizard's First Rule, Kahlan goes after Darken Rahl, resolving to do everything she can to kill him even if she dies herself. The way she does it is, according to Zed, something she shouldn't even know is possible, never mind being able to do it. She enters a state known as the Con Dar or Blood Rage. While in this state she is The Unfettered, and has unlimited access to her Confessor powers.
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Sword of Truth / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Sword of Truth / int_cf1b706e	comment	All proponents of religion are shown to be foolish by contrast to Richard, who espouses that all must live their lives free from backwards religious beliefs because there can be no proof of life beyond death... despite having extensive personal experience with spirits.
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Sword of Truth / int_cf1e5580	type	Wizard Beard
Sword of Truth / int_cf1e5580	comment	Wizard Beard: Averted/parodied in the first book where First Wizard Zedd has no beard. Midway through the first book, Richard calls him out on this, saying that wizards are supposed to have beards, and everyone knows that. Zedd plays along, and magically grows out a long white beard... then immediately shaves it off, saying he doesn't wear a beard because they're itchy. He can't just remove it himself, because he only has Additive magic. Later, it's a plot point that Richard can both grow and remove his own beard â€” signifying that he can use both Additive and Subtractive magic.
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Sword of Truth / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Sword of Truth / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Nicci. While she comes across as a horrible person at first, this is mostly a result of her horrible childhood and severe indoctrination. She fights for the Imperial Order out of duty, rather than being a Straw Hypocrite like most of its leaders, and joins the good guys when Richard finally manages to convince her that Communism is bad.
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Sword of Truth / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Sword of Truth / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Exception-periods (or "moon flow") are mentioned three times: While a plague is going through the Midlands, Richard goes to see Kahlan, and is told she isn't feeling well. Naturally he immediately fears the worst, only to be told by her maid that it's just "that time of the month" and she normally wouldn't have mentioned it except to assuage Richard's fears. Richard is developing a rash on his neck, so Cara goes to a healer to get a salve. She gives it to Richard, and he starts applying it while she lists off the ingredients, only to get squicked out when she gets to "...and some of my moon flow blood." Kahlan's first time with Richard (whom she thinks is Drefan) is during her period, and attempting to arouse him for a second round she winds up tasting the blood.
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Sword of Truth / int_d3ec9dfd	type	Ordered to Die
Sword of Truth / int_d3ec9dfd	comment	Ordered to Die: Confessor magic enslaves a person's mind completely, to the extent that powerful ones can order a person to drop dead, and he will. Kahlan has demonstrated the ability several times over the books. Jagang demonstrates his power to the captive Sisters of Dark by ordering a previously captured one to die... and showing them what it means to die when still formally serving a most displeased Keeper.
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Sword of Truth / int_d4816fb	type	Villainous Face Hold
Sword of Truth / int_d4816fb	comment	Villainous Face Hold: When Richard realizes the new dark sorceress everyone fears is one of his former teachers, he tells the messenger "Pray you never have to look into Nicci's eyes, Captain." We then cut to the next chapter, which starts with Nicci telling a child to look into her eyes while cupping her chin.
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Sword of Truth / int_d4f5426	type	Absence of Evidence
Sword of Truth / int_d4f5426	comment	Absence of Evidence: In Chainfire, after the eponymous spell has made everyone forget that Kahlan ever existed, Richard tries to use this to convince everyone else that she has. He points to where he says he, Kahlan, and Cara had been walking, and notes that there were no footprints between his and Cara's, which were several feet apart. He tells his companions that this means someone erased Kahlan's footprints. Nobody believes him since, as mentioned, everyone is sure that she never existed in the first place.
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Sword of Truth / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Sword of Truth / int_d52d28b6	comment	The Imperial Order is run by two magic users, Emperor Jagang and Brother Narev, despite their professed hatred for magic and those with it.
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Sword of Truth / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
Sword of Truth / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The Chainfire spell was intended to do this to a person, erasing all evidence they ever existed and leaving them an Unusually Uninteristing Sight that people can't remember seeing or interacting with. Unfortunately, actually casting it has the rather unfortunate side effect of causing The End of the World as We Know It.
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Sword of Truth / int_d5abf14c	type	Animal Eye Spy
Sword of Truth / int_d5abf14c	comment	Animal Eye Spy: Slides have an ability to look through animals' eyes and hear with their ears when sending people's captured souls into them. Nicholas used this to always stay one step ahead of Richard until he figures it out.
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Sword of Truth / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Sword of Truth / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster/The Man Behind the Man: Ann is a rather benevolent version of this before her 'retirement' where she arranges events so that Richard is born and can fulfill the prophecies. Afterwards she tries to be this but fails miserably. Becomes even worse at this starting in the Faith Of The Fallen where she becomes quite obsessive about ordering Richard to lead his armies because of the prophecies even though its repeatedly mentioned he fulfills the prophecies anyways and he is supposed to lead, not her. She gets called out on it several times and its even pointed out that her obsession with prophecies allowed the huge conflict to take place, but she doesn't let that stop her from trying for long.
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Sword of Truth / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
Sword of Truth / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Oba Rahl kills his mother with a shovel. She was an abusive harpy, though he's no better.
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Sword of Truth / int_d71d51fd	type	The End of the World as We Know It
Sword of Truth / int_d71d51fd	comment	The End of the World as We Know It: Always threatened, but (almost) never happens. Richard actually uses the phrase "the end of the world as we know it" when discussing Chainfire.
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Sword of Truth / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
Sword of Truth / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: Terry Goodkind being the big Ayn Rand fan that he is, the heroes of the books tend to take this view as well. There are many occasions in the series of armies winning against insurmountable odds by using absolutely any and every method they can think of, the more ruthless the better, and by being entirely uncaring of how bad their losses are as long as the enemy's are even worse. The morality of this is also always stated to be impeccable - anyone trying to deprive you of life or freedom deserve whatever they get, and it's better to die fighting than submit to slavery.
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Sword of Truth / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Sword of Truth / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Bags", commonly uttered by Zedd. It's not clear what it's a euphemism for, but he's rebuked for saying it in front of children.
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Sword of Truth / int_d87ba943	type	Combat Sadomasochist
Sword of Truth / int_d87ba943	comment	Combat Sadomasochist: The Mord-Sith. Richard acquires a touch of it through their... tutelage.
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Sword of Truth / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Sword of Truth / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: We only ever see red dragons, but the first book mentions several other varieties of differing size, intelligence, and temperament. Red dragons are intelligent, proud, honorable, and skilled at magic. When asked whether she could land near an army without being seen, Scarlet, a red dragon, boasts that she could land in the middle of the army without being seen.
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Sword of Truth / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
Sword of Truth / int_d9d2c40b	comment	The Mord Sith, a group of female warriors who serve as bodyguards and torturers to D'Hara's Lords Rahl, wielding the agiel, a magical weapon capable of causing intense pain. Additionally they're able to turn magic back against its casters.
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Sword of Truth / int_d9de318a	type	Appetite Equals Health
Sword of Truth / int_d9de318a	comment	Appetite Equals Health: In the fifth book, Zedd claims he is fine, but then immediately goes on to refuse food. Since he is the Big Eater of the series, the rest of them get worried.
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Sword of Truth / int_da4e9c2a	type	Obstructionist Pacifist
Sword of Truth / int_da4e9c2a	comment	Obstructionist Pacifist: The beliefs of the culture that produced evil pacifists are absurd to the point where they won't fight back or even try to get out of the way when people with weapons are nearby and trying to kill each other. Indeed, they are Too Dumb to Live.
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Sword of Truth / int_da512040	type	Fantasy Contraception
Sword of Truth / int_da512040	comment	Fantasy Contraception: Shota gives Kahlan a charm to wear which will prevent conception. However, it stops working in Soul of the Fire after the Chimes disrupt magic, so she becomes pregnant.
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Sword of Truth / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Sword of Truth / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Kahlan is one. Also Cara, and by extension the rest of the Mord-Sith. Nicci later becomes this as well. They're all highly skilled, ferocious fighters using ordinary weapons or magic (although nonetheless Kahlan in the books also gets captured a lot).
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Sword of Truth / int_dbea254f	type	ChosenOne
Sword of Truth / int_dbea254f	comment	Chosen One: Richard is the first person in three thousand years to be a true Seeker of Truth or a War Wizard, in addition to being an integral figure in multiple prophecies. The universe more or less revolves around his actions.
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Sword of Truth / int_dc2c2968	type	Superpowerful Genetics
Sword of Truth / int_dc2c2968	comment	Superpowerful Genetics: The "gift" that enables one to use magic is hereditary, but eons of wizards killing each other have led to it becoming rarer and rarer; by this point, most children of lower-powered wizards will not be wizards themselves. The powers of a Confessor and the Anti-Magic properties of the "pristinely ungifted", however, are guaranteed to be passed on to their children.
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Sword of Truth / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Sword of Truth / int_dc579c91	comment	Khalan almost gets raped, which then ends up not happening due to a Contrived Coincidence. (Growing more and more contrived as the series goes by.)
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Sword of Truth / int_dc587080	type	Medieval Universal Literacy
Sword of Truth / int_dc587080	comment	Medieval Universal Literacy: The civilized countries appear to be literate. In the fifth book, Richard visits a country where an oppressed majority isn't allowed to learn to read, and tries to explain to them the advantages of literacy, which presumably they'll have after siding with him.
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Sword of Truth / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Sword of Truth / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The night wisps mentioned in the first book, and casually in a few others turn out to actually be important.
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Sword of Truth / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Sword of Truth / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Zedd detonates a light spell with similar power to a modern nuclear weapon in the midst of the Imperial Order's gigantic army. The resulting explosion kills an estimated 500,000-1,000,000 soldiers of the enemy army, though there's more where that came from. Though the Imperial Order has always considered Zedd (and Richard Rahl, who he was acting on behalf of) to be the epitome of evil (and more so afterward), Zedd is not bothered by what happened because the soldiers killed were all faceless enemy thugs of an invading army intent on killing him and enslaving/raping everyone on the continent. Zedd's attitude toward murdering a large fraction of the world's known population in the backstory (before the rest of the continent was revealed to also have people in the third book) and burning up their souls to fuel two thousand-mile-long hellmouths to serve basically the same function a ten-foot wall could have filled is essentially "meh, worth it".
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Sword of Truth / int_dd8deee1	type	Xenofiction
Sword of Truth / int_dd8deee1	comment	Xenofiction: At one point in Soul of the Fire, the narrative briefly takes the Point of View of a horse.
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Sword of Truth / int_df4edb04	type	Corrupt Bureaucrat
Sword of Truth / int_df4edb04	comment	Corrupt Bureaucrat: Subverted. Nicci needs to raise a large sum of money to secure Richard's release from the dungeons, which she believes will line the pockets of the bureaucrat in charge of these matters. It turns out that he's honest after all, flatly rejecting this due to being a true believer loyal to the government.
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Sword of Truth / int_dfa15af2	type	Hair Memento
Sword of Truth / int_dfa15af2	comment	Hair Memento: Kahlan gives Richard a lock of her hair after she forces him away in a Break His Heart to Save Him way. For added value, she cuts off the hair herself, which, for a Confessor, means terrible pain.
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Sword of Truth / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Sword of Truth / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic: The description of Additive and Subtractive magic qualifies; Additive Magic can only create things, and Subtractive Magic can only destroy things. For example, "creating" fireballs to burn your enemies would be Additive Magic, while curing a case of poisoning by eliminating the toxin would require Subtractive Magic.
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Sword of Truth / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Sword of Truth / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: The Baka Ban Mana were assigned the task of one day helping the Chosen One to unlock the full potential of the Sword of Truth. How are they to do that? Train their swordsmen to be the best fighters in the world, then sic thirty of them at the candidate. If he dies, he wasn't the man.
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Sword of Truth / int_e12c23fb	type	Splitting the Arrow
Sword of Truth / int_e12c23fb	comment	Splitting the Arrow: Kahlan mentions her Home Guard gives ribbons for such shots (called shaft shots). A few had half a dozen ribbons, one had ten. She herself manages such a shot after some training by Richard... who, due to his magical powers awakening, ruined a hundred arrows in a single session.
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Sword of Truth / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Sword of Truth / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: The heroes have few qualms about the use of this, and at one point cross the line into full-blown Cold-Blooded Torture.
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Sword of Truth / int_e1b2070b	type	Chameleon Camouflage
Sword of Truth / int_e1b2070b	comment	Chameleon Camouflage: It has mriswith, lizard people capable of changing their color for a fairly good concealment. They also wear capes which do the same, but much better.
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Sword of Truth / int_e1f90397	type	Body Paint
Sword of Truth / int_e1f90397	comment	Kahlan uses this to her advantage as a battle tactic against the Imperial Order in Stone of Tears by fighting (almost) completely naked.
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Sword of Truth / int_e205b147	type	Merlin and Nimue
Sword of Truth / int_e205b147	comment	Merlin and Nimue: Richard Rahl has this relationship with Sister Verna, as well as the other Sisters of Light. In the later books, the trope is even more prevalent in his relationship with Nicci, who has become something of his right hand, mentor, and unlike Verna, definitely has feelings for him.
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Sword of Truth / int_e42fbc	type	The Gift
Sword of Truth / int_e42fbc	comment	The Gift: Most magic users have the gift, the inherent ability to use it. However, some have the calling, the ability to learn magic regardless. It's noted that the latter is inherited, but over the centuries with so much battle between magic users the gifted are steadily dying out.
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Sword of Truth / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Sword of Truth / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Samuel bears more than a passing resemblance to Gollum. There are also the various similarities between Goodkind's world and that of The Wheel of Time. The most direct parallels appear in Stone of Tears (the title of which is in itself suspicious) and Blood of the Fold. The Sisters of the Light are similar to the Aes Sedai in Robert Jordan's work (complete with evil members). The Keeper of the Underworld and the Dark One are both Satan figures that are trying to break the magical barriers keeping them out of the normal world. They both have human followers, called "banelings" and "darkfriends", respectively, and there are organizations (the Blood of the Fold, the Children of the light) dedicated to hunting them that only manage to spread paranoia and kill innocent people.
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Sword of Truth / int_e5a11ab1	type	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks
Sword of Truth / int_e5a11ab1	comment	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks: A variant occurs in the fourth book of the series. A healer goes to see a family where the kids are sick from a plague outbreak, and the parents described the youngest child having some strange sores on her legs. The healer misses a step...they just described a variant that is 100% lethal, no exceptions.
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Sword of Truth / int_e7ae1ebc	type	Moral Disambiguation
Sword of Truth / int_e7ae1ebc	comment	Moral Disambiguation: It starts out with a deep discussion of good and evil, right and wrong, and cause-and-effect, including black, white, and lots of distinct shades of grey. As the focus of the series switches to the war against the Imperial Order, it becomes a very us-against-them, black-and-white morality environment, to the point where the protagonists were doing things at the end of the series that they would have decried as evil at the beginning.
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Sword of Truth / int_e7c33c6a	type	True Sight
Sword of Truth / int_e7c33c6a	comment	True Sight: The pristinely ungifted, being unable to sense magic at all, are unaffected by magical illusions.
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Sword of Truth / int_e83c4c85	type	Deadly Force Field
Sword of Truth / int_e83c4c85	comment	Deadly Force Field: A spell capable of doing it is used against Richard in the first book. The spell could have crushed him, although it's also poisonous (in his case, it was intended for capture, not killing). He manages to change it so that the caster is crushed to death instead. One of the magical barrier types featured in the books is a so-called light spell. It can be set as a simple incinerating barrier, but it can also be set to expand, breaking all in its path. Out of the cases shown of that happening, one leveled a house, one destroyed a palace... and one was an outright Fantastic Nuke. The background of the books has Zedd stopping a war between the Midlands and D'Hara by erecting a magical boundary between the two regions, one instantly killing anyone attempting to enter it. A prequel short story set at the time shows that he originally claimed he intends to drive the boundary over the whole D'Hara as a wave of death, but ultimately decided that such indiscriminate and complete genocide is way too much.
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Sword of Truth / int_e85976d4	type	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That
Sword of Truth / int_e85976d4	comment	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: When Richard learns two of his Mord-Sith are lesbian lovers, he's quick to assure one, Berdine, that he's got no problem with it. However, the manner in which it's done, including comparing it to pea soup (he doesn't like that for food, but wouldn't care if someone else does) comes off this way.
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Sword of Truth / int_e8749dab	type	Teach Him Anger
Sword of Truth / int_e8749dab	comment	Teach Him Anger: Zedd has to do this briefly for Richard in the first book, because the Sword of Truth's magic won't work if its wielder isn't angry.
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Sword of Truth / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Sword of Truth / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: The series began as pretty typical high fantasy, but increasingly became a vessel for the author to express his Objectivist beliefs. For example, the central struggle in Faith of the Fallen is between free market capitalism and socialism. The main character Richard delivers a number of author tracts in which he states Goodkind's Objectivist opinions, which often contradict views the character expressed earlier in the seriesâ€”or even the story's reality itself, such as claiming that belief in the afterlife is unfounded, when Richard has been there and back himself. The afterlife thing is particularly noteworthy, since Goodkind's attempt to justify it is more baffling than any Retcon could be. It is revealed in a later book that since the world was devoid of magic for a time the afterlife, magical in nature, has ceased to exist. So now belief in the afterlife is unfounded, even though it could be proven to exist before. This overwhelming change in the world and its profound impact on the human condition is mentioned exactly once, and after that all the characters behave as if they had always lived in a world where there was no life after death... and this still doesn't account for the fact Richard goes to said afterlife years after the Chimes deprived the world of magic briefly.
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Sword of Truth / int_e8d730c4	type	Easily Conquered World
Sword of Truth / int_e8d730c4	comment	Easily Conquered World: Bandakar, whose strawman pacifists put up as little of a fight as you'd expect them to. Also Anderith, which is guarded by a circle of magic bells that can be defeated by plugging wax into your ears; their army is literally entirely for show.
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Sword of Truth / int_e9432eb	type	Concepts Are Cheap
Sword of Truth / int_e9432eb	comment	Concepts Are Cheap: The heroes use the word "Freedom" to justify a whole bunch of brutal actions and atrocities including using confession to take away people's free will and kill people who disagree with them.
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Sword of Truth / int_ea8c9e21	type	You Will Know What to Do
Sword of Truth / int_ea8c9e21	comment	You Will Know What to Do: Richard often knows instinctively what to do to solve problems or use his powers. It's subverted in the second book, however. Prophecy was counting on Richard grabbing a certain item from Adie's house in the first book because he would have a feeling about it. Instead, the feeling just made Richard uneasy about the item, and he left it right where it was.
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Sword of Truth / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Sword of Truth / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: In later volumes of the series, after he became a rabid Objectivist, Goodkind had a tendency to write his views into his books in the most blatant way possible; by having his "good" characters stop the story for pages and pages at a time, so that they can speechify to those around them (and thus, the reader), expounding upon Goodkind's views in a ham-fisted fashion that left no doubt in anyone's minds that this was just him preaching at us. Anyone who was shown disagreeing with this was portrayed not only as wrong, but irredeemably evil, and those nay-sayers who were important to the plot would ultimately prove themselves to be rapists and child molesters. This had the undesired but very present effect of making it seem like all of Goodkind's "heroes" were total jerkasses, unable to accept any viewpoint but their own. After all, this is the series that had its hero kick a little girl in the face with such force that she went into a coma and her healers weren't sure if she would ever wake up! In fairness, she turns out to be an Asshole Victim and an Enfant Terrible.
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Sword of Truth / int_eba911fd	type	Dark Messiah
Sword of Truth / int_eba911fd	comment	Dark Messiah: Jagang of the later books claims he's been chosen by the Creator to create a paradise where all the needy are taken care of, while everyone works for others' benefit. He can inflict mental torture on those who can use magic and whisper into the minds of those who can't. He's also a rapist and generally terrible human being and the leader of a horde of fellow ones. He even has his own false prophet guy who sets up the religion of evil and has a scheme so they can practically live forever, luckily they both get killed and all their followers sent to another dimension. Most critics of the series would also view Richard Rahl, the "hero", as one of these too. He executes people without trial, coerces countries into submitting to his rule, massacres civilians, uses torture on prisoners and in general won't accept anything except people completely signing up to his side. All in the name of liberty, don't you know.
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Sword of Truth / int_ecb3970b	type	Anti-Magical Faction
Sword of Truth / int_ecb3970b	comment	The Blood of the Fold, an Anti-Magical Faction who enslave or purge magic-users. While magic is in fact very dangerous in this setting, and the storyline that features them shows that they sort of have a point about wanting to control it to keep ordinary people safe, the means they use to do it are brutal and inhumane at best and unforgivable at worst.
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Sword of Truth / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
Sword of Truth / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: The only way to reliably stop a screeling (a demonic/undead assassin sent by The Keeper) is to hack it apart.
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Sword of Truth / int_ee29a942	type	Supernaturally Young Parent
Sword of Truth / int_ee29a942	comment	Supernaturally Young Parent: In "Blood of the Fold", it is mentioned that Verna used to have a daughter who died of old age decades ago. Apparently, if a wizard or a sorceress in the Palace has a Muggle Born of Mages, he or she is given up for adoption.
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Sword of Truth / int_eea93c96	type	Blow You Away
Sword of Truth / int_eea93c96	comment	Blow You Away: One of the abilities of the Gifted. Richard is able to stop arrows by manipulating the air, and Nicci can form a blade from the air that can cut a man in half.
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Sword of Truth / int_efafc096	type	Suicidal Sadistic Choice
Sword of Truth / int_efafc096	comment	Suicidal Sadistic Choice: In the second book of the series, Stone of Tears, Kahlan encounters a man who had just tried to kill her hanging from a ledge, about to fall to his death. She gives him the choice of taking her hand and living the rest of his life as an essentially brainwashed slave or falling to his death. He chooses the latter.
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Sword of Truth / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Sword of Truth / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Nicci intentionally uses this, at one point going as far as to pull her dress down to her waist during Chainfire, thereby distracting everyone from looking at her face and possibly recognizing her. One Mord-Sith does this in the seventh or eighth book, leading to some quite amusing scenes when the normally leather-clad torturer marches back into camp in a revealing pink dress. Kahlan uses this to her advantage as a battle tactic against the Imperial Order in Stone of Tears by fighting (almost) completely naked.
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Sword of Truth / int_f13a0451	type	Suicide Attack
Sword of Truth / int_f13a0451	comment	Suicide Attack: Wizard's Life Fire, a spell that uses the wizard's life force to consume their surroundings.
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Sword of Truth / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Sword of Truth / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Denna actually sort of goes through this twice. The first time, she lets Richard kill her so he can be free, having fallen in love with him. The second time, her spirit takes on Richard's mark of the Keeper, sacrificing herself to save him. Luckily for her, though, the Heroic Sacrifice disgusts the Keeper so much that he tosses her back to be with the Good Spirits.
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Sword of Truth / int_f4faa8f8	type	Pity the Kidnapper
Sword of Truth / int_f4faa8f8	comment	Pity the Kidnapper: Zedd and Annalia in Temple of the Winds. It nearly backfires when the group that captured them plans to trade them to cannibals.
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Sword of Truth / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Sword of Truth / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: In Wizard's First Rule. After that, it's more of, "earn your right to suffer even worse horrors in the next book."
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Sword of Truth / int_f690d996	type	Refuge in the West
Sword of Truth / int_f690d996	comment	Refuge in the West: When the war between D'hara and Midlands ended with the first boundary's creation, a lot of people were left fearing and hating magic due to its use in the war. They were given a region without magic in the west and a second boundary was created, sealing it off.
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Sword of Truth / int_f6b7820b	type	Cosmic Keystone
Sword of Truth / int_f6b7820b	comment	Cosmic Keystone: The Boxes of Orden, as using them incorrectly can release the Keeper into the world of the living.
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Sword of Truth / int_f6ca5b54	type	The Archmage
Sword of Truth / int_f6ca5b54	comment	The Archmage: Zeddicus Z'ull Zorrander and Darken Rahl both count, though Darken Rahl had a significant leg up on Zedd because he sold his soul to the Keeper for Subtractive Magic. Notably, Zedd wouldn't have had much standing at all in the presence of the wizards 3000 years before, and Rahl would've been just second-rate. Much later in the series, Richard becomes this, in addition to the Seeker, a Mud Man, Lord Rahl, a wizard, and many other impossible jobs that he asks not to have in the first book. Nathan and Ann from the Palace of the Prophets. Which is saying something, since most of its inhabitants have been there for hundreds of years. Nicci is even stronger, and about as powerful as Darken Rahl (unusual, as sorceresses are almost invariably only a shadow of wizards). That said, she and the other Sisters of the Dark have been stealing wizards' Han and making deals with the Keeper. War Wizards were this 3000 years ago. Special mention goes to Alric Rahl, Joseph Ander, and several others.
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Sword of Truth / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Sword of Truth / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Great Wizard War that happened 3000 years ago, in which many of the artifacts and MacGuffins that exist in the present, including the eponymous Sword of Truth, were created by the war-wizards of the time. Many of the plots of the entire series owe themselves to the direct events of that war.
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Sword of Truth / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Sword of Truth / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: Happens a lot of times to Kahlan, but no one ever succeeds, though in Faith of the Fallen Nicci, desiring vengeance on Richard and Kahlan, links herself to Kahlan through a maternity spell, then allows a thug to brutalize her (Nicci), forcing Kahlan to feel every sensation.
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Sword of Truth / int_f8c079b3	type	With Us or Against Us
Sword of Truth / int_f8c079b3	comment	With Us or Against Us: While they only actively try to kill the villains, Richard eventually comes to believe that if a person is unwilling to take responsibility for their life into their own hands (read: not an Objectivist), then the life of that person is expendable when it means ensuring the safety of his own people.
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Sword of Truth / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
Sword of Truth / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	Number Two: Whichever side Nicci is currently on, you can bet she'll be number two.
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Sword of Truth / int_fa9cd4db	type	Democracy Is Bad
Sword of Truth / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Democracy Is Bad: One Amazon review for "Soul of the Fire" notes much fantasy has this trope implicitly, and that that book makes it very very explicit, as the people of Anderith vote for neutrality, which then gets them massacred by the Imperial Order whom they won't/can't fight against.
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Sword of Truth / int_fab3235a	type	Easy Evangelism
Sword of Truth / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: Used in Faith of the Fallen. People are shown the light by a pretty statue, of two people standing tall, because no subject in The Empire seems to do that, along with the inscription "Your life is your own...", because no one in the empire seemed to have even thought of that. An alternative reading is that everyone had thought of it, or wanted to think of it, but they were so beaten down by the dystopia that they'd never dare say such things aloud before (the blacksmith and others admit as much in private earlier in the book). And seeing it displayed so openly and proudly finally convinced them to act on it. An ability to convince people is often stated to be a common trait to people who have the gift, Richard Rahl-Sue is the most gifted wizard ever, and the statue was implied to be at least in part a creation of magic, so it's possibly justified, though not explicit. Again in Naked Empire, where Richard easily manages to show a bunch of pacifists that their view is wrong. Not only that, but he can get them to take up arms with no compunctions, despite it going against what they were told all of their lives. It can't be explained by magic here, since Richard's gift was explicitly not working at the time. It helps that they had already been wavering about their pacifism when faced with the Imperial Order ravaging them, but even so.
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Sword of Truth / int_fc45bac0	type	Wouldn't Hit a Girl
Sword of Truth / int_fc45bac0	comment	Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Deliberately averted, and for good reason. Richard notes he is quite aware that women can be just as dangerous as men.
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Sword of Truth / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Sword of Truth / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Used in a twisted fashion with the Mord-Sith. It's explained that they deliberately seek out the kindest, gentlest, most loving little girls to become Mord-Sith, and breaking them makes for a more cruel, sadistic torturer.
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	More than Mind Control / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Motive Decay / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Muggle Foster Parents / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Multi-Melee Master / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Mutually Exclusive Magic / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Mystical City Planning / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Mystical Plague / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Naked People Are Funny / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Named in the Sequel / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Never Got to Say Goodbye / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	No-Flow Portal / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	No One Sees the Boss / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	No-Sell / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Not so Dire / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Not That There's Anything Wrong with That / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Number Two / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Obligatory War Crime Scene / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Official Couple Ordeal Syndrome / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Out-of-Clothes Experience / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Pet Baby Wild Animal / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Pheromones / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Power Loss Makes You Strong / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Prophecies Are Always Right / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Razor Wind / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Really Gets Around / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Screw the War, We're Partying / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Scry vs. Scry / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	So Beautiful, It's a Curse / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Son of a Whore / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Sorcerous Overlord / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Spell Book / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Spooky SÃ©ance / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Stab the Scorpion / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Standard Hero Reward / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Stopped Dead in Their Tracks / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Subverted Suspicion Aesop / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Suicidal Sadistic Choice / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Suicide Attack / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Suicide Watch / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Super Breeding Program / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Supernatural Gold Eyes / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Supernaturally Young Parent / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Supporting Leader / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Sycophantic Servant / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Tap on the Head / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Tarnishing Their Own Beauty / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Teach Him Anger / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Technicolor Eyes / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Tempting Apple / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	That Makes Me Feel Angry / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Anti-God / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Archmage / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Blind Leading the Blind / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Call Knows Where You Live / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Call Left a Message / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Casanova / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Corruptible / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Dulcinea Effect / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Empire / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Gift / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	The Main Characters Do Everything / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Torches and Pitchforks / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Trail of Blood / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Training the Gift of Magic / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Unskilled, but Strong / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Villainous Princess / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	War Crime Subverts Heroism / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	We Help the Helpless / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Weapon Title / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Would Not Shoot a Good Guy / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Wouldn't Hit a Girl / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Writer on Board / int_a33d74a4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	You Are Too Late / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	You Can See Me? / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	You Kill It, You Bought It / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	You Will Know What to Do / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Your Normal Is Our Taboo / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Zip Me Up / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Cliché Storm / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Fictional Document / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Here There Were Dragons / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Hero Secret Service / int_4004dcc4
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Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Pursued Protagonist / int_a33d74a4
Sword of Truth	hasFeature	Teach Me How To Fight / int_a33d74a4

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