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* ArtAttacker:
** There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
** Later in the series, Princess Violet and Rachel learn and use this kind of magic, in ''Phantom'' and ''Confessor'' respectively.
** There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
** Later in the series, Princess Violet and Rachel learn and use this kind of magic, in ''Phantom'' and ''Confessor'' respectively.
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* ArtAttacker:
**ArtAttacker: There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
** %%** Later in the series, Princess Violet and Rachel learn and use this kind of magic, in ''Phantom'' and ''Confessor'' respectively.%%Does not explain the trope. How/why are these two characters an example of Art Attacker?
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* ArtAttacker: There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
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* ArtAttacker: ArtAttacker:
** There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
** There's a court wizard who places spells on people by drawing them, using their likeness for SympatheticMagic.
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%% ** Later in the series, Princess Violet and Rachel learn and use this kind of magic, in ''Phantom'' and ''Confessor'' respectively.
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%%* FreudianExcuse: The Mord-Sith's "training."
%%* FunctionalMagic: Additive and Subtractive magic.
%%* FunctionalMagic: Additive and Subtractive magic.
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* FunctionalMagic: The description of Additive and Subtractive
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%% * LadyOfBlackMagic: Nicci.
%% * LadyOfWar: Kahlan functions as this, graceful yet deadly.
%% * LadyOfWar: Kahlan functions as this, graceful yet deadly.
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* LadyOfWar: As the Mother Confessor is one of the closest things the Midlands has to an emperor (her near-absolute authority is recognized by all of the nations there), Kahlan
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%% * MagiBabble: See also MagicAIsMagicA.
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** Attempted, but it's never all that consistent. By the end of the series, it seems to boil down to [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands "however Richard needs it to work."]]
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** Attempted, sometimes with full-on MagiBabble explaining things, but it's never all that consistent. By the end of the series, it seems to boil down to [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands "however Richard needs it to work."]]
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* HiredByTheOppressor:
** The Imperial Order makes extensive use of magic users despite their dedication to exterminate all magic.
** The third book is centered around Blood of the Fold, a similar organization where the leader has a sorceress for a sister and is not ashamed of using her power for his purposes.
** The Imperial Order makes extensive use of magic users despite their dedication to exterminate all magic.
** The third book is centered around Blood of the Fold, a similar organization where the leader has a sorceress for a sister and is not ashamed of using her power for his purposes.
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* {{Irony}}: The Sword of Truth is only effective against objects or opponents that the wielder believes are justified in attacking. Thus, a weapon called the Sword of ''Truth'' can only be used against opponents the wielder ''perceives'' as being guilty or deserving, not necessary opponents that actually ''are'' guilty.
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* SolitarySorceress: Two regulars in the series: Adie, a sorceress who helps early on and eventually becomes one of Zedd's traveling companions, and Shota, a witch who is more antisocial and tells and gives things to Richard that he doesn't like but she deems to be for his own good.
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* SolitarySorceress: Two regulars in the series: Adie, a sorceress who helps early on and eventually becomes one of Zedd's traveling companions, and Shota, a witch who is more antisocial antisocial, telling and tells and gives giving things to Richard that he doesn't like but she deems to be for his own good. good.
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* WeaponsBreakingWeapons: The Sword of Truth can cut through any weapon without a similar enchantment. The first time Richard uses it to kill a man, the narration describes in detail how the Sword shatters the enemy's sword... and then his skull.
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** Also of note are female Confessors. Male Confessors are much, much stronger than female ones to the point where it becomes impossible to control them; according to the backstory, the vast majority were complete monsters, using their powers to get whatever they wanted, and sparking off decades of war before they were wiped out. So, all female Confessors are ''forced'' to have their mate kill any of their male children immediately at birth, while the Confessor herself tends to be overcome with grief for some time afterward.
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** Also of note are female Confessors. Male Confessors are much, much stronger than female ones to the point where it becomes impossible to control them; according to the backstory, the vast majority were complete monsters, using their powers to get whatever they wanted, and sparking off decades of war before they were wiped out. So, all female Confessors are ''forced'' to have their mate kill any of their male children immediately at birth, while the Confessor herself tends to be overcome with grief for some time afterward. After Kahlan and Richard are married, there is much drama on this point — particularly as a male will definitely inherit Kahlan's Confessor powers, but also potentially Richard's magical gifts.
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* RefugeInTheWest: When the war between D'hara and Midlands ended with the first boundary's creation, a lot of people were left fearing and hating magic due to its use in the war. They were given a region without magic in the west and a second boundary was created, sealing it off.
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* LandOfOneCity:
** Aydindril, which was essentially the Capitol of the Midlands, was an autonomous city-state ruled by the Mother Confessor.
** The Palace of the Prophets, a large structure which houses the Sisters of the Light (an order of sorceresses) and the wizards whom they train, is large enough to count as a small city by itself. It's ruled by the Prelate, the Sisters' head.
** Aydindril, which was essentially the Capitol of the Midlands, was an autonomous city-state ruled by the Mother Confessor.
** The Palace of the Prophets, a large structure which houses the Sisters of the Light (an order of sorceresses) and the wizards whom they train, is large enough to count as a small city by itself. It's ruled by the Prelate, the Sisters' head.
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** The city where the [[WizardingSchool Palace of the Prophets]] is, Tanimura, plus Halsband Island around it, appears to be ruled by the resident Sisters of the Light, headed by the Prelate.
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* ForcedTransformation:
** When the Confessors use their gift on an innocent person, they're then transformed into animals since Confession affects them less. Brophy is one of these, who'd been transformed into a wolf. He shows up in the first book. In his case however he can [[TalkingAnimal still talk]] and is devoted to Kahlan, who'd Confessed him, like a human Confession victim.
** The mriswith descend from long ago humans ancient wizards experimented on to make them invisible. However, this ended up leaving them as LizardFolk crossed with BeePeople (in how they reproduce) although they can turn invisible too.
** The Slith is a living magical portal who had been transformed into this long ago by magic. Richard asks about her life prior to this, and it turns out she'd been a prostitute who had wizard clients. This made her considered disposable and a candidate for transformation. Richard is disgusted to hear how she was treated though, and it makes him realize those long dead wizards were evil men, even those on the supposed "good" side.
** When the Confessors use their gift on an innocent person, they're then transformed into animals since Confession affects them less. Brophy is one of these, who'd been transformed into a wolf. He shows up in the first book. In his case however he can [[TalkingAnimal still talk]] and is devoted to Kahlan, who'd Confessed him, like a human Confession victim.
** The mriswith descend from long ago humans ancient wizards experimented on to make them invisible. However, this ended up leaving them as LizardFolk crossed with BeePeople (in how they reproduce) although they can turn invisible too.
** The Slith is a living magical portal who had been transformed into this long ago by magic. Richard asks about her life prior to this, and it turns out she'd been a prostitute who had wizard clients. This made her considered disposable and a candidate for transformation. Richard is disgusted to hear how she was treated though, and it makes him realize those long dead wizards were evil men, even those on the supposed "good" side.
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* MagicalSociety: The Palace of the Prophets in the Sword of Truth series. It's also suggested that something of this nature existed within the Wizard's Keep at Aydindril, but is no more because there are so few wizards left.
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* MagicalSociety: The Palace of the Prophets in the Sword of Truth series. Sisters of the Light, an order of sorceresses, live there and have a WizardingSchool. It's also suggested that something of this nature existed within the Wizard's Keep at Aydindril, but is no more because there are so few wizards left.
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** Darken Rahl has the ability to project horrific visions into others' minds, which he does to [[spoiler: Kahlan]] in ''Stone of Tears.'' However, the undisputed king of MindRape in the series is the Dreamwalker [[EvilOverlord Emperor Jagang]].
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** Darken Rahl has the ability to project horrific visions into others' minds, which he does to [[spoiler: Kahlan]] in ''Stone of Tears.'' However, the ''
** The undisputed king of MindRape in the series is the Dreamwalker [[EvilOverlord EmperorJagang]].Jagang]], who enters peoples dreams with his mind and thus takes control over them, being able to make them do anything which he wants, which is shown to be a horrifying experience.
** The undisputed king of MindRape in the series is the Dreamwalker [[EvilOverlord Emperor
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** Kahlan's first encounter with the Pristinely Ungifted after [[spoiler:the Chainfire Event.]] She may not have said it, but she was certainly surprised. Further, the spell in question was corrupted [[spoiler:by the Chimes]], so some normal people weren't affected. Jagang realized this, and to find those people, has her ''walk naked through his camp''. The people who saw the beautiful, naked women and tried to grab her were caught by Jagang's troops and conscripted to guard Kahlan.
** In a curious inversion, Adie is blind but sees using magic. She encounters a pristinely ungifted person, and she hears them but can't see them, and is thoroughly disturbed.
** Kahlan's first encounter with the Pristinely Ungifted after [[spoiler:the Chainfire Event.]] She may not have said it, but she was certainly surprised. Further, the spell in question was corrupted [[spoiler:by the Chimes]], so some normal people weren't affected. Jagang realized this, and to find those people, has her ''walk naked through his camp''. The people who saw the beautiful, naked women and tried to grab her were caught by Jagang's troops and conscripted to guard Kahlan.
** In a curious inversion, Adie is blind but sees using magic. She encounters a pristinely ungifted person, and she hears them but can't see them, and is thoroughly disturbed.
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* {{Jerkass}}: In later volumes of the series, after he became a rabid Objectivist, he had a tendency to write his views into his books in the most blatant way possible; by having his "good" characters stop the story for pages and pages at a time, so that they can speechify to those around them (and thus, the reader), expounding upon Goodkind's views in a ham-fisted fashion that left no doubt in anyone's minds that this was just Goodkind preaching at us. Anyone who was shown disagreeing with this was portrayed not only as wrong, but irredeemably evil, and those nay-sayers who were important to the plot would ultimately prove themselves to be rapists and child molesters. This had the undesired but very present effect of making it seem like all of Goodkind's "heroes" were total jerkasses, unable to accept any viewpoint but their own. After all, this is the series that had its ''hero'' kick a little girl in the face with such force that she went into a coma and her healers weren't sure if she would ever wake up! In fairness, she turns out to be an AssholeVictim and an EnfantTerrible.
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* {{Jerkass}}: In later volumes of the series, after he became a rabid Objectivist, he Goodkind had a tendency to write his views into his books in the most blatant way possible; by having his "good" characters stop the story for pages and pages at a time, so that they can speechify to those around them (and thus, the reader), expounding upon Goodkind's views in a ham-fisted fashion that left no doubt in anyone's minds that this was just Goodkind him preaching at us. Anyone who was shown disagreeing with this was portrayed not only as wrong, but irredeemably evil, and those nay-sayers who were important to the plot would ultimately prove themselves to be rapists and child molesters. This had the undesired but very present effect of making it seem like all of Goodkind's "heroes" were total jerkasses, unable to accept any viewpoint but their own. After all, this is the series that had its ''hero'' kick a little girl in the face with such force that she went into a coma and her healers weren't sure if she would ever wake up! In fairness, she turns out to be an AssholeVictim and an EnfantTerrible.
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* IRejectYourReality: The Bandakar are philosophical skeptics who believe there's no reality as our senses are not reliable. When something goes wrong, they start chanting "Nothing is wrong" (until Richard [[EasyEvangelism easily shows this view is absurd]]).
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* IRejectYourReality: The Bandakar are philosophical skeptics who believe there's no reality as our senses are not reliable. When something goes wrong, they start chanting "Nothing is wrong" real" (until Richard [[EasyEvangelism easily shows this view is absurd]]).
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The series introduces antagonists who have spoke rhetoric that's pretty obviously communist, starting with the first book's villain Darken Rahl (he lives in the "People's Palace", has a "People's Peace Army" and lectures a ''peasant'' on how his duty is to aid others-he's also a vegetarian), then increasingly so with the Imperial Order. ''Naked Empire'' has pacifists so committed they're basically suicidal, who also use slogans straight out of 20th century American anti-war movements. This all seems fairly out of place in the {{medieval European fantasy}} setting that the books take place in (though such groups occasionally occurred even then, it was always far more on the fringe and soon suppressed by the establishment).
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The series introduces antagonists who have spoke have rhetoric that's pretty obviously communist, starting with the first book's villain Darken Rahl (he lives in the "People's Palace", has a "People's Peace Army" and lectures a ''peasant'' on how his duty is to aid others-he's also a vegetarian), then increasingly so with the Imperial Order. ''Naked Empire'' has pacifists so committed they're basically suicidal, who also use slogans straight out of 20th century American anti-war movements. This all seems fairly out of place in the {{medieval European fantasy}} setting that the books take place in (though such groups occasionally occurred even then, it was always far more on the fringe and soon suppressed by the establishment).
