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Murder
Richards father, George Cypher, get’s murdered. -
The Search
After finding that his father was murdered/killed, he goes out searching. -
Kahlan
While searching the woods, he finds a young women in a white dress walking the woods. After figuring out that she was being stalked by four young men, he helps her out, saving her. -
Destination Zedd
After the encounter with the four men, Richard goes to his old friend’s, Zedd, house, for help. First to protect Kahlan, and second to save Richard from the thorn of a lethal plant called a Snake Vine.) -
Someone Waiting
But, before he goes to Zedd’s home, he must gather some things his own. But, before he can get in, he realizes that he can gather very little belongings, for there was someone waiting. Presumably the “someone” who killed his “father”. -
To Zedd's, once again
After gathering his important belongings, by sneaking into his home, he and Kahlan head to Zedd’s house. -
Seeker of Truth
After arriving at Zedd’s, his hand, the one with the thorn in it, is treated, he finally pieces suspicious things about Zedd together, and proclaims that Zedd is a Wizard. Zedd, after admitting it’s truth, names Richard the Seeker of Truth.) -
Tyrant
After being named Seeker, he is told of the thing that he must do as Seeker. He must help defeat the Tyrant King Darken Rhal.) -
Last Box of Orden
It turns out that Darken Rhal has found two of the three boxes of Orden, magical boxes which will either kill him, destroy all humanity, or give him the power over life and death. The only way to defeat him is to keep the last box from him.) -
Boundary of Boundarys
To defeat Darken Rhal, the tyrant, the first thing he must do is get across the boundary, a sort of portal, between the two lands. Inside the boundary is the Underworld. Anyone who goes in there will not come out.) -
Chase
Richard must get the help of his friend Chase. Chase is a boundary warden, one of the people who keeps the people of the Westlands from going inside the boundary, so he will be lots of help in finding a path through the boundary. Also, this guy kind of reminds me of a Butler from this one book. The reason being they’re both huge guys absolutely loaded with weapons of all different kinds, all over the body. -
Underworldly creatures
Chase and Zedd knocked out by a creature of the underworld. If struck by an underworld creature, you are knocked unconscious, into a deathly sleep, and not many people actually wake up from it. -
Bone Woman
To actually make it across the boundary, they must find a bone woman by the name of Adie, who will not only do that, but will also heal Zedd and Chase. -
The pass
Richard must go through the pass with Kahlan. The pass, at places, can be only a few feet wide. If you stray out of the pass, you will be sucked into the underworld. It makes it even more intense because there only source of light is something called a night stone, and that also draws the creatures of the underworld towards it. -
The Mud People of Midlands
After getting through the boundary, they must travel to the Mud People. The mud people are an indigenous people who live in the Midlands. They have very strange customs, such as slapping people across the face to show your respect for there strength. -
Spirits
The only way to figure out the next step of the journey, and some tips to help them through it, is to talk to the good spirits of the underworld.) -
Sadly...
Sadly, the only way to talk to the spirits is to hold a gathering, and to do that, you must be a mud person. And to become a Mud Person, you must do something that will benefit the mud people.) -
Roofs are the way
Richard then realizes that the roofs of the mud people’s buildings leak, and so he helps that by tiling the roofs. -
From Westland, to Mud
Finally, Richard becomes a mud person, and is able to hold a gathering. -
Shota
Richard then holds the gathering, and, from the ancestor spirits, learns that the only way to find where the box is, is through the Witch Woman Shota, who lives in the treacherous place of Agaden Reach. -
Dragon
But, before Richard can get out of the Spirit House, the place where the Gatherings are held, Darken Rhal comes to the mud people on a red Dragon, and steals a child, after killing many of the Mud people -
Kahlan gone missing
On there way to the Witch Woman Shota, Kahlan mysteriously disappears. After interrogating Shota’s “companion”, Richard realizes that Kahlan was captured by Shota. -
Golem! Golem!
After Kahlan is captured, Richard manages to find Shota’s “companion”, Samuel. Richard is also told where Kahlan is. After reading this partI realize that Samuel, the Companion of Shota, is a lot like Golem, from the series “The lord of the Rings." -
Rachel and the Wizard Giller
- In a castle, the princesses play mate, Rachel, meets the wizard Giller, who was the protector of Kahlan (Kahlan is actually the mother Confessor), and is now in the service of the queen to protect the last box of Orden, which is in the queens hands. To do his duty, Giller must send it away, so he gives it to Rachel, and asks her to take it away.
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Fake Orden
- After meeting with Shota, Richard and Kahlan learn that the box of Orden was in the queens hands (no longer, but they don’t know that. Giller, the wizard, placed a fake in it’s place, and no one knows that the box isn’t in the queens hands anymore).
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So close!
- As Rachel is traveling away from the castle, and Richard and Kahlan are traveling towards it, they bump into each other, and for one night, Rahel feels safe in the hands of some other people. But, since Kahlan doesn’t know that Giller went into the service of the queen to protect the Box of Orden, Kahlan threatens Giller, and Rachel runs away with the box.
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Death of a Wizard
But, after arriving at the castle, they realize that Darken Rhal had killed Giller, and the Box was no longer with the queen. But, after they piece a few things together, they realize also that it is not in Darken Rhal’s hands either, and is actuall in Rachel’s. -
Interrigation
Since they had nothing else to do in the castle, they decided that they should interrigate some of the prisones. Having realized that all of the prisoners are inoccent, they release all of them, and also free Siddin, the Mud person boy who Darken Rhal stole. -
Chase helps out
After fixing up the castle, Richard and Kahlan go to find Rachel, but before they even have a chance to try, Chase finds them, and luckily, he already has Rachel. -
Box in hand
After meeting up with Rachel and Chase, and Rachel realizing that they are allies, Rachel tells them that she has the box. -
Back to Westland
They figure that the safest place to guard the box would be in Richard’s country of birth, Westlands. -
James
But sadly, before they can get to Westland, they find that James, a magician who can actuall draw spells over people, has drawn one over Richard, and he will have to go to the caves in which the spells are drawn and erase his. His being a poisinous barrier all around him, that only he can feel, and that will eventually contract enough that it will kill him. -
Mord Sith
After getting to the caves, he eventually figures out which spell his is, and changes it so it will not affect him. However, after he comes out of the cave, he encounters a Mord Sith, sent by Darken Rhal. A Mord Sith is basically a person trained torture people. They can also take control of magic, and that’s what she did to Richard after Richard uses the magic of the sword to try and kill her. -
There and Back Again (A hobbits tale, by Bilbo Baggins)
After being captured, Richard is taken back to the castle. -
Touch of the Agiel
For many months, Richard is tortured and tortured, and taught to take control over the pain. The thing that is being used torture him is called the Agiel. It is a basic metal cane, but can bring the largest amount of pain in existence, however not by just blunt hitting. The tuch of it is like being hit by lightning. -
Into the Dragon's den
After those many months, Richard is finally taken to the People’s Palace, where Darken Rhal rules. -
More torture
Then he’s tortured for just a few more months. -
Dark wrath
Finally, he is brought before Darken Rhal -
Deciet
- Richard is told that he can walk free, but if he decides to oppose Darken Rhal, all he know will be tortured for the rest of their lives, but if he chooses to help him, and recites the instructions to open the Boxes of Orden so that Darken Rhal can open the right box and rule over all life and death, everyone would be saved. He had one week to decide. Darken Rhal also puts a web around him, so that all his friends will see him as Darken Rhal
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Need to kill
The only way to escape the castle is to kill Denna, Richard’s Mord Sith. However, Denna hands herself over willingly, because she does actually care for Richard. -
Dragon's loyalty
- On his way out of the castle, Richard is told by one of the guards not to take a right on the path. That leads to Darken Rhal’s Dragon, the one he ravaged the Mud People’s village with. Richard, however, knows that Dragons would never give themselves over willingly, so he does take the right. And so, he manages to figure out that Darken Rhal is keeping the egg of the Dragon, and Richard saves it, winning over the Dragons utter loyalty.
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Gone to see his "brother"
Riding on the dragon, Richard goes to see his brother, Michael. -
Betrayl
But, seeing Michael, he realizes that Michael is loyal to Darken Rhal, because Michael sees Richard as Richard, and only those loyal to Darken Rhal see that, because of the Wizards’ web Darken Rhal put over Richard. -
Back to his torture place
After that misadventure, Richard sets out for D’hara again. -
Up with a plan
After the long trip, Richard came up with a plan. -
Kahlan in rage
Way back in the plains, Zedd, Chase, and Kahlan are attacked by two quads, groups of four men bent on killing whoever the are set out to kill. Kahlan, after finding out that Richard is most likely dead, goes into the Con Dar, the Blood Rage, and starts to run to D'hara, seeking vengeance. -
Wrong Vengeance
But, before Richard can get to Darken Rhal, Kahlan, who had finally finally reached the People’s Palace, uses her Confessor power on Richard, because she sees as Darken Rhal -
Deciet for the good
And so, thinking that Richard was under the power of the Confessor, he makes him recite the book called the Book of Counted Shadows, which is all about how to use the boxes of Orden. -
Love against power
Richard, however, tells him lies, because he is not under Kahlans power, because of something to do with how much he loves her anyway, and how much she loves him. -
Into the underworld with you!
Because Richard told him lies, Darken Rhal opens the wrong box, and gets sucked into the depths of the underworld. -
Siddin back home
After Darken Rhal dies, Richard and Kahlan return Siddin, the Mud people boy, back to his home. -
Nightstone
After coming back home, Siddin, the little boy who Richard and Kahlan saved, looks through Richard’s bags and takes out the nightstone, a stone that brings forward the spirits of the dead. -
In ignorance of the greator good
Richard and Kahlan save him, but, in the confusion, one of the Elders of the Mud People try to kill Kahlan. But it all turns out okay. THE END
