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Richard puts together the three Boxes of Orden, while Kahlan confesses him. However, Rahl’s Mord’Siths find them just as this happens. In the middle of the confession, Cara, the lead Mord’Sith, uses her Agiel on Richard. This combination of the powers of Orden, Confessor and Agiel results in a magical explosion that sends Richard and Cara 57 years into the future. Meanwhile, in the ensuing conflict, Zedd is killed by his own wizard’s fire, and Kahlan is taken prisoner by Rahl. When Kahlan learns from Shota that the only way for Richard to return is to replicate the magical combination of Orden, Confessor and Agiel, she decides to conceive a child with Rahl. Kahlan gives birth to a son, Nicholas, who grows into a merciless tyrant. In the future, Richard joins forces with Cara to destroy Nicholas. They meet up with Shota, who tells Richard about the magical combination required to travel back in time. Nicholas fails to deter Cara and Richard from returning to the present, where they save Kahlan and Zedd, with Richard finally fulfilling the prophecy in defeating Rahl. The Boxes of Orden are destroyed. Continue

Darken Rahl raids a village where Jennsen is living, looking for the Boxes of Orden. Jennsen, pursued, throws them into a lake. When Rahl’s soldiers find her, they beat her mercilessly causing her to lose her memory. As Jennsen is nursed back to health, Rahl convinces her that Richard is evil in order to obtain the location of the boxes. Meanwhile, Richard, Kahlan, and Zedd enter a camp which has been struck by a plague, created by Darken Rahl. In exchange for the Seeker’s head, he will provide them with the cure. As Zedd sets about healing the sick villagers, Richard retraces Jennsen’s steps to the lake and is able to retrieve the missing boxes. Believing in Rahl’s story, Jennsen follows his orders to steal the boxes from Richard. She succeeds but Richard captures her and manages to restore her memory. Rahl is out of options, so he sends orders for his army to pull back and to have Cara and her sisters of the Agiel summoned, as Richard sets about using the magic of Orden with Kahlan’s help. Continue

Richard, Kahlan and Zedd arrive at the library in which the remaining copy of the Book of Counted Shadows is hidden. To find it, they seek the help of a librarian named Livia, who suddenly disappears. A painter named James had use magic to transport her into a world he had created through a magical painting, where she reunites with her missing son, Aidan. After James explains that he was keeping Aidan safe, Livia informs him that she is needed at the library. James promptly returns to the real world to paint the library into their sanctuary, transporting everything inside it along as well. He is found by Richard and Kahlan, who he also transports into the painting. With Livia’s help, Richard finds the Book. At first unwilling to return them to the real world, James is forced to when Rahl discovers the painting and burns it, but he himself is unable to escape. Richard begins reading the Book to understand the magic of Orden. Continue

King Gregor, an ally of the Seeker, allows Shota to curse him with magic that transforms him at sunset into a beast called the Calthrop in order to protect his kingdom from Rahl’s army. However, he is unable to control the Calthrop as it preys on the innocents, forcing Richard and Kahlan to kill him. Meanwhile, Zedd discovers from Shota that without the Calthrop, the D’Harans will be able to take over the throne. Upon the D’Harans’ invasion, Zedd and Shota use magic to darken the sky, unleashing the Calthrop. Corah, who inherited the throne and the Calthrop curse from King Gregor, turns into the beast herself, driving the D’Harans away. Just as Corah decides not to hide the identity of the Calthrop from her people, Kahlan realizes that she must accept and learn to control her magic. After returning, Zedd reveals the existence of a second Book of Counted Shadows and that they must find it before Rahl. Continue

Gwildor, a common thief, uses a magic mirror to change his appearance to that of a D’Haran captain. He also causes two other thieves named Clayre and Frytss to appear like Kahlan and Richard in order to rob the people of Midlands. Upon seeing Richard and Kahlan, the thieves hatch a plan to steal the Sword of Truth. Clayre and Frytss succeed in stealing the sword but are captured by D’Haran soldiers after Gwildor betrays them. Clayre and Frytss escape only to be found by Zedd, who discovers that they are not Richard and Kahlan. Meanwhile, Richard and Kahlan are captured by D’Harans after being tricked by Gwildor’s lover, Bianca. Zedd uses the mirror to pose as Bianca and attempts to trade Clayre and Frytss for Richard and Kahlan. When that fails, he tricks the D’Harans again by having Bianca appear as him, while they escape. Zedd changes Frytss and Clayre back to their original appearances before continuing on his journey with Richard and Kahlan. Continue

Richard and Kahlan return to the Midlands and come to the aid of a group of rebels whose homes have been destroyed by a new weapon created by Darken Rahl called the “Whisperer”. Kahlan manages to confess a D’Haran soldier named Carver Dunn, who helps them to deduce that the Whisperers are being stored at a fort nearby. Richard infiltrates the fort using Carver’s identity and discovers that a cargo of Whisperers is being sent from D’Hara to replenish the fort’s supply. As Richard befriends the fort’s captain, Kahlan becomes protective of Carver, who is later killed by one of the rebels. When Kahlan learns of the rebels’ plan to use the intercepted cargo of Whisperers on villages loyal to Rahl for revenge, she goes to the fort to inform Richard, and together, they are able to stop the rebels in time. As Richard and Kahlan destroy the Whisperers, they reflect on the choices they made to save the innocent D’Harans. Continue

Zedd reunites with Richard and Kahlan in D’Hara after hiding the third box of Orden near the People’s Palace to lure Darken Rahl out. Rahl’s minions locate the box but are unable to retrieve it due to a magical shield. Rahl sends Denna to recruit a young woman named Jennsen, who is immune to magic. Denna forces Jennsen to retrieve the box by threatening to kill her mother but loses the box to Richard, Kahlan and Zedd. After Denna escapes with Jennsen’s mother, Richard discovers that Jennsen is his sister and Zedd is their grandfather. In exchange for the third box, Denna helps Richard and Jennsen to steal the two boxes in Rahl’s possession. When she attempts to take all three boxes, Richard assembles them and obtains the power to command others. Finding his mother dead, Richard is overcome with vengeance, and commands Kahlan to kill Denna and Rahl’s soldiers to kill each other. Jennsen, horrified by Richard’s actions, separates the three boxes to cease their hold over him. To keep the boxes apart, Zedd gives two boxes of Orden to Jennsen to protect, while they protect the third. Continue

Giller attempts to recreate the Confessor’s magic for Darken Rahl by experimenting with ancient magic on Rahl’s prisoners. Dismayed by Giller’s slow progress, Rahl decides to pay a visit. Richard, Kahlan, Chase and Devlin, a resistance fighter, rescue the prisoners from Giller’s keep. Chase is struck ill when his wife Emma, whom Giller had performed one of his experiments on, unknowingly unleashes a form of Confessor’s power on him. Upon discovering that Rahl will be arriving at the keep, Richard and Kahlan head there in hopes of killing Rahl and capturing Giller. They are captured when Giller proves resistant to Kahlan’s Confessor power and Richard is defeated by Rahl in a fight. As Giller works to take Kahlan’s Confessor power, Rahl reveals his plan to use it on Richard, triggering Kahlan into the “Con Dar” or “Blood Rage”. She kills Giller and confesses Rahl’s minions, forcing Rahl to retreat. After returning to Chase to give him Giller’s potion, which will keep him safe from Emma’s power, Richard and Kahlan receive a message from Zedd, who tells them to meet him in D’Hara. Continue

After reuniting with Chase, Richard and Kahlan return to Hartland to find that the D’Harans have taken control of everything. Despite the fact that most people in Hartland seem to think that the D’Harans are helping them, Richard, Kahlan, and Chase discover that the D’Harans have been taking dissenters prisoner, and feeding them to gars. Even though Michael, Richard’s brother, first resists their efforts, he finally is convinced and helps them. Michael helps them, in particular, after the D’Harans discover that Richard is in Hartland by giving up his life to help them escape back to the Midlands. Continue

Zedd leads Kahlan and Richard to the tomb of a past Seeker named Kieran, where he plans to hide the third Box of Orden but they find Kieran’s remains missing from his sarcophagus. After they are led by the spirit of Kieran’s Confessor, Viviane, to his remains, Zedd undoes the spell that prohibits Kieran’s soul from going to the underworld. Kieran’s spirit possesses Richard and expels Zedd from the room. Kieran, in Richard’s body, uses Kahlan as a vessel for Viviane. Zedd meets Kieran’s former wizard, Amfortas, who explains to him that the thousand-year old legend of Kieran and Viviane is not as it was. After Viviane committed suicide to release Kieran, whom she had confessed, from her power, Kieran turned into a violent killer, forcing Amfortas to kill him and to keep his spirit from entering the underworld. With Amfortas’ help, Zedd re-opens the door and forces both Kieran and Vivane to depart for the underworld. Zedd decides that the tomb is not a safe place to hide the Box of Orden, and that he will take it somewhere secretly by himself. Continue