She believes Richard may be this hero after he is chosen to be the Seeker of Truth in charge of handling the Sword of Truth, the namesake of the series. Richard enters the story after Kahlan Amnell, a Confessor from the Midlands, arrives in Westland in search of a prophesied hero: The First Wizard living in Westland.
A global conflict breaks out when Darken Rahl, the villainous leader of D'Hara, invades the Midlands with a mind to conquer it. When the story begins, it has been twenty years since boundaries were placed in the New World to separate Westland from the magical kingdoms of D'Hara and the Midlands. Many of Richard's personal conflicts revolve around his refusal to submit to the arcane rules of the wizarding community, preferring to live his life as a free man. The first book, Wizard's First Rule, introduces Richard Cypher who lives a relatively normal life in Westland until discovering that he belongs to a long line of magical, truth-seeking heroes not unlike the Confessors.
The Confessors possess the ability to use magic to place anyone under their influence, though, generally, they are said to use this power, not for greed or power, but for the noble task of seeking the truth. Finally, the Midlands are ruled by a group of magically endowed women called the Confessors and their leader, the Mother Confessor. Meanwhile, the Eastern region of D'Hara is ruled by a magician belonging to the family Rahl.
There, reason and technology reign supreme as opposed to magic, and the region is led by a chosen group of representatives as opposed to magical beings. Westland, the region most like our own, in many ways represents ideas of the West. The New World is divided into three main regions: Westland, D'Hara, and the Midlands. Most of the action takes place in the New World from which most of the major characters hail. The world of the books is divided into two main regions: the New World and the Old World. The books have sold more than 25 million copies worldwide. Beginning in 1994 with Wizard's First Rule, American writer Terry Goodkind’s bestselling fantasy series, The Sword of Truth, follows a group of heroes who fight an Imperial Order of villains desiring to wreak havoc on the world by wielding an ancient evil.
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