Richard Cypher was once but a simple woods guide in his home town of Hartland. That all changed after meeting Kahlan Amnell and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, who revealed to Richard he is the first true Seeker the world has known in a thousand years, destined to wield the powerful Sword of Truth and defeat the evil tyrant Darken Rahl. With the Confessor and the Wizard of the First Order beside him.

Kahlan is the Mother Confessor, leader of an ancient order of magical women. She has the power to make anyone she touches tell the truth, but whoever Kahlan "confesses" also loses their free will and is compelled to love and obey her for as long as they live. Kahlan risked everything to find Richard Cypher. What she didn't expect was to fall in love with him. But her powers keep them from ever being together. Despite their dilemma, Kahlan helped Richard defeat Darken Rahl, the tyrant who was so close to becoming ruler of the three territories.

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander is a wise and powerful Wizard of the First Order, protecting Richard from birth so that he could fulfill his destiny of becoming the first true Seeker in a thousand years, bringing down Darken Rahl's tyrannical rule of dark magic. And Zedd revealed that he is Richard's grandfather as well as the Seeker's protector. When the wizard helped Richard use the three magical Boxes of Orden to destroy Rahl, he thought their quest was finally over.

This is the embodiment of pure evil, in the face and golden form of a handsome young man. Darken Rahl wanted nothing less than total dominion over all of the free world. If he gained possession of all three Boxes of Orden, Rahl would have the ultimate power he so coveted. Through the use of dark magic and sorcery, evil wizards, duplicitous collaborators and legions of soldiers, Rahl stopped at nothing to achieve his goal. But he couldn't stop the Seeker, Richard Cypher, from fulfilling the prophecy, killing Rahl and ending his reign of terror.

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