The Sword of truth

the Sword of truth is a series written by Terry Goodkind, telling the history of Richard Cypher, a forest guide, and of his/her companions, Kahlan Amnell, Zeddicus Zul' Zorander and well of others through a rather dark world always threatened by the destruction or control.

The author envisages to write 11 pounds, the series enclosing himself by a trilogy.

The volumes are published in France by the editions Bragelonne at the rate/rhythm of a volume per annum.

They are also published by the editions France Leisures.

Cycle

The cycle is consisted of the following books:
  • the First Lesson of the Wizard ( Wizard' S First Rule , 1994)
  • Pierre of the Tears ( Stone off Tears , 1995)
  • the Blood of the Tear ( Blood off the Fold , 1996)
  • the Temple of the Winds ( Temple off the Winds , 1997)
  • the Heart of Fire ( Drunk off the Fire , 1999)
  • Faith of Rejected the ( Faith off the Fallen , 2000)
  • the Pillars of Creation ( The Pillars off Creation, 2001)
  • Naked Worsens (2003) - not translated into French
  • Chainfire (2005) - not translated into French
  • Phamtom (2006) - not translated into French
  • Confessor - envisaged for November 2007 with the US

  • Posthumous Debt ( Debt off Bones , 1996) - préquelle with the series translated in 2001 and published in Légendes with the editions I read.

Lessons of the wizard

Each volume of the cycle states a rule (of English rule , translated lesson). Each one of these rules has a philosophical dimension.

Here rules stated in the cycle:

  • 1st lesson: People tend to hold for truth what they wish to be the truth or what they fear being the truth.

  • 2nd lesson: The worst evils rise from the best intentions. One finds the popular proverb here: “The road to Hell is paved with good intentions”.
  • 3rd lesson: Passion dominates the reason.
  • 4th lesson: To exonerate, it is to give to the different one. But to as receive them more as what one offered to them. (page 365)
  • 5th lesson: Point out what people do, and not only what they say, because the acts will betray a lie.
  • 6th lesson: The only sovereign which one must accept the yoke is the reason.
  • 7th lesson: The life is the future, not the past.
  • 8th lesson: Deserve the victory.
  • 9th lesson: A contradiction can exist, neither partly, nor in entirety.
  • 10th lesson: To voluntarily deviate from the truth is a treason towards oneself even.
  • 11th lesson:

Fictitious characters of the saga

In the cycle of the Sword of truth , one meets only the human ones (not dwarf Elfe nor of ; although there exist Sorcier S, Magicien S, Prophète S or of the inquisitrices) and monsters in any kinds. There exist also people having a magic capacity characteristics like generating a field anti-magic around oneself.

Main characters

Monsters

Various monsters all, more dangerous the ones than the others, populate the regions of the New World:
  • Garns : winged reptiles provided with sharp-edged hooks and sharp claws, they have powerful arms and are covered with fur safe on the breast piece where it smears blood for their fly. They are the powerful predatory ones. Two races of garns exist: those with long tail, with the very limited intelligence, and those with short tail, more frightening still, because they have a capacity of surprising reflection. To drive out, the garns use particular flies, the flies with blood: bound to them, they fold back game by pricking it painfully, obliging it to reveal its hiding-place. The garns with short tail count their flies regularly, in order to know if a game in the vicinity killed one of the flies not to be located.
    Ayant one day killed the mother of a garn, Richard collected the baby and raised it, taming it and managing even to be made a friend of it.

  • Dogs in heart : kinds of wolfhounds, but much more powerful than the two joined together species. As large as horses, their jaws can tear off an arm. They are named thus because they locate their preys thanks to the beats of its heart and raffolent heart of their victims. At the time of the border, they populated primarily the accesses of this one.

  • Skrins : creatures of the kingdom of deaths. They are extremely resistant and very powerful. A priori, no human being is able to fight against such a creature.

  • red Dragon : independent creatures with a clean conscience, they any more are not presented. In the Sword of truth , the red dragons are the worst of all. Richard succeeded in becoming friendly with a female, and being made allied, but it is an exception. In the beginning, the red dragons kill without pity all that they meet.

  • Mriswiths : formerly of the wizards, they exchanged their gift against invisibility and celerity. Able to melt itself in the decoration thanks to their cape. They have the covered head of skin and the remainder of the covered body of scale to the same properties as the skin of the chameleon. Their mouth is furnished with frayed teeth.

  • Shades : they are creatures living in the kingdom of died and thus in the borders. They can be called upon in the real-world and are immaterial, a simple contact with a shade is mortal.

  • Grinceur : Creature of the kingdom of died to the skeletal body covered with a partly broken up skin of black color. It is characterized by a piercing laughter. It has black eyes which have reflections with the light. It is insensitive with the pain, does not fear fire, is also very fast. It has long claws as well as sharp-edged hooks. It locates its preys with their immobility or their escape (race), the walk of those Ci disturbing it. The only means of overcoming it is to put it in part. They are only present in volume 2.

Fictitious localities of the saga

the New World

  • Ground of West

  • Countered Medium

    • Anderith
      • Fairfield
    • Aydindril
    • Galea
      • Ebinissia
    • Kelton
    • Mardovia
      • Renwold

  • D' Hara

    • the Palate of the People

the Old world

The sword of truth

The saga car its name of the weapon of the same name. It is about a magic weapon, carried by a Sourcier of truth and handing-over with this last by the wizard of first order.

There exists a great difference between a traditional Waterfinder, who found the sword, or stole it, and authentic Sourcier, to whom a wizard gave the weapon to him: Authentic Sourcier is able to use his capacity independently of the weapon, that makes it much more frightening than whoever. The wizard does nothing but find the Waterfinder, it does not make a Waterfinder of it while giving the weapon to him.

On the guard of the sword is encrusted the word truth in wire with gold. The spirits of the former Waterfinders can intervene through the weapon when this one is carried by current Sourcier, in order to help it in various spots, mainly to fight.

This weapon is very dangerous, as well for its carrier as for its adversary, because it increases the fury and the rage of its owner. When this one gives death by using it, it feels a great suffering, the only parade being the right ire of the Waterfinder. If anger is right, it attenuates and can make disappear the suffering except at the time of the first setting with death. It destroys the Waterfinder gradually, except if this last arrived to make transfer the color of the blade to the white; for that it must all forgive with the person whom it will kill. The sword can kill innocent only if the blade is white, the innocence of the person depends however on the point of view of the waterfinder of truth.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Official site of the French-speaking author
  • Official site
  • Site nonofficial French-speaking person on the series, with a forum to speak
about it

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