Temple of the Winds (place)
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The Temple of the Winds is a place between the worlds. It was created by the wizards of the old war, in an attempt to lock away dangerous forms of magic from the world. It is through meddling done by wizards of old in the Temple that Subtractive Magic was lost to the world and Emperor Jagang and Richard Rahl were born with their respected abilities. Later, Jagang would have Sister Amelia unleash a plague, from the Temple.
[edit] History
When the great war was nearing its end, the New World wizards, decided to lock away certain, dangerous magic's within the Temple of the Winds. A team was created to accomplish this, however, it soon became apparent that something had gone wrong with their efforts.
It would soon be discovered that the one hundred members of the Temple team, had betrayed the New World and locked away Subtractive Magic, in an attempt to rid the world of magic. These wizards would be sentenced to death by the New World's head prosecutor, Lothain.
Lothain himself, would then volunteer, to enter the Temple and attempt to reverse the damage done by the Temple team. However, his meddling only caused more damage.
After realizing Lothain had betrayed them, Baraccus entered the Temple to see if he would be able to reverse the Temple team and Lothain's tampering. Baraccus would learn that Lothain had allowed the magic of the dream walker to seep out, so that person born with the abilities it gave, to continue the Old World's crusade to end magic.
Baraccus realized he was unable to reverse this damage, but instead created a balance. He allowed for some Subtractive Magic to seep out so that when a dream walker would be born in future years, so would a war wizard. While in the Temple, Baraccus also wrote a book titled; Secrets of a War Wizard's Power, so that the person born with that particular gift would have aid in learning to deal with his powers.
[edit] The Plague
Having learnt of the Temple, Jagang forces Sister Amelia to enter, though to do so, she is forced to betray her oath to the Keeper of the underworld. Amelia leaves the Temple with a special book, that she is able to use to unleash a terrible plague upon the world.
Many thousand are killed by the plague, until Richard Rahl fufills the wishes of the spirits and is allowed to enter the Temple himself. While within the Temple, Richard is able to end the plague, though he is forced to contract the plague himself.
The book stolen by Sister Amelia, is then used by Richard's wife Kahlan Amnell, to call upon the chimes to come to the aid of Richard and cure him of the plague.
