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It all started in 1994, when Tor Books picked up and published the book, Wizard's First Rule, of which would become the first of many books in the excellent Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. The book established Goodkind as one of the world's bestselling fantasy genre authors. Each subsequent book in the series has sold better than the one before and some twenty million copies of the books have now been sold.

The series features a young man, Richard Cypher, being thrust into a world that he knows nothing about, but he had to save. With the help of Kahlan Amnell and other friends and family, he saves the Midlands from the rule of Darken Rahl, a terrible man bent on rule over everything.

Richard grew up in Westland, a part of the world where the influence of magic did not exist. There he grew up with the instruction of Zedd, an older man that Richard came to call one of his best friends. Little did Richard know that Zedd was actually his grandfather. When Richard came to the Midlands, he started learning things about magic and wanted little to do with it, but when Kahlan Amnell came looking for an old wizard that turned out to be Zedd, Richard was named the Seeker of Truth.

The series is mainly about the struggle for freedom. First against Darken Rahl, and then against the Imperial Order and the Emperor Jagang.

(more coming soon)