History Series / LegendOfTheSeeker

* TrackingSpell: In "Bounty" Sebastian the mapmaker creates a map which serves as one by getting Richard's pendant from a bounty hunter after him when it's lost. He grinds it up and mixes this with the ink used for making the cap. When it's made in a magical machine afterward, Richard's shown on the map as a glowing gold dot, since an item the target had is [[SympatheticMagic connected to them somehow]].

* DualWielding: Cara has been seen wielding two Agiels.

* KnifeNut:
** Kahlan uses two for double the fun.
** Richard tends to use a knife whenever the Sword is unavailable for whatever reason, especially in Season 2.

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!!''Legend of the Seeker'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* {{Brainwashed}}: Everyone subject to Confession turns into a completely devoted slave of the Confessor. This is only broken with the Confessor's death or [[DePower losing their magic]] (in the books, it's ''permanent'', and Confessed people die of despair if they witness the Confessor dying).

* MoralDissonance: One season 1 episode has a secondary character who steals Richard's identity and leaves Richard behind to take his place, despite knowing that he can't use the Sword of Truth, he can't read the Book of Shadows, he isn't the Seeker and therefore, by prophecy, cannot save the world and is therefore dooming it. And then he tries to sleep with Kahlan wearing the identity of the man she loves. And we're supposed to root for him and his implied romance with the actually heroic secondary heroine of the episode.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Kahlan is the lone woman of the trio in Season 2, along with Richard and Zedd.

* TheStarscream: Both Darken Rahl and Nicci (independently), during season two.

* SympatheticMagic: Sebastian's {{magic map}}s in "Bounty" work this way-they can track an object using part of it, or if a person, an item belonging to them, ground up in the ink used to print it. In "Bound", the [[{{Synchronization}} maternity spell]] Nicci casts on Kahlan uses a strand of her hair, retrieved from her brush by a [[{{Familiar}} crow in Nicci's control]].

* SexySurfacingShot: In "Marked", we get a shot of Cara emerging out of the water in her pool-sized bath. When Triana [[InterruptedBath interrupts her bath]] and challenges her for command of the Mord-Sith. Cara slowly steps out of her bath, backhands Triana, throws her into the bath and almost drowns her, [[FullFrontalAssault all while completely naked]].

* ToppledStatue: At the state of Season 2, after Darken Rahl's death, people in the Midlands can be seen taking down his statute to great fanfare.

** The Mord Sith are the BodyguardBabes of the D'haran Empire's ruler Lord Rahl and his {{torture technician}}s. With their agiels, magical weapons that inflict pain, they're formidable opponents, and also use bows ably. They can also rebound spells back on sorceresses or wizards, making them feared among even the most powerful magic users.

** The Mord Sith are the BodyguardBabes of the D'haran Empire's ruler Lord Rahl and his {{torture technician}}s. With their agiels, magical weapons that inflict pain, their formidable opponents, and also use bows ably. They can also rebound spells back on sorceresses or wizards, making them feared among even the most powerful magic users.

* OneHitKill: The dakras can kill instantly with magic if they hit someone (at least when this isn't a [[PlotArmor main character]]).

* OfCorsetsSexy: Kahlan. Mord-Sith. A fair number of female characters. Mocked by Zedd during his brief magical disguise as a woman in "Mirror".

** It's more likely he's referring to [[DCupDistress breasts.]]

* SexyDiscretionShot
* SexySufracingShot

* TokenMinority: Chase is portrayed by a Samoan actor, with his family and many minor characters being Maori. On a lesser note, we see a single black Mord'Sith, and one played by mixed race actress Katrina Law, the rest being white (in the books, they all were).

* WorldOfActionGirls: Kahlan, Nicci, Cara, the Confessors, Sisters of the Dark/Light and Mord Sith are all very skilled women warriors, frequently displaying their skills. These are most of the female characters.

* NotSoDifferent: Quite a few episodes illustrate that the Resistance against Rahl can be a little extreme.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: The episode "Home" features an enchantment that can only be cast when a constellation of three stars is encircled by the moon's crescent. It gets even worse, though-the spell ends when all three stars are eclipsed by the crescent portion of the moon. Not ''quite'' as bad as it seems, though: until pretty recently, the term "star" meant "any celestial object not the Sun or the Moon." "Planet" and "comet" are from old terms for "wandering star" and "hairy star" after all.

* CrazyJealousGuy: The ([[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane apparent]]) Creator says the Keeper is intent on destruction of all life due to jealousy. Before she created living things, they were lovers, with no other beings in existence. When she created life, and especially lavished love on humanity, the Keeper became enraged by this due to her affections no longer solely being his. He created death as a start, as she'd originally made them immortal, and the Creator refused to be with him ever after. The Keeper things by destroying all life she'll be forced to return. Whether or not [[GodInHumanForm she's the Creator]] isn't certain, as she might be a delusional woman. However, he ''does'' attempt to draw her down into the underworld after learning her location so they're together again, thus at least his love for her is apparently real.
* CurseCutShort / SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: Cara, who'd been forced to speak in rhyming couplets while posing as a Princess, delivers this gem to the Margrave in "Princess":

You decadent, pompous, self-satisfied-''(socks the Margrave)''''

* ActionGirl: Kahlan, Nicci, Cara, the Confessors, Sisters of the Dark/Light and Mord Sith are all very skilled women warriors, frequently displaying their skills.

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Dennee's son is killed offscreen]]. Later in "Deception," which opens with several children finding a mysterious device. The next we see of them is their dead bodies having fallen around the device, along with everyone else in the village.

* InfantImmortality: Played straight with [[spoiler:Dennee's son, at least until he's killed offscreen]], but averted in "Deception," which opens with several children finding a mysterious device. The next we see of them is their dead bodies having fallen around the device, along with everyone else in the village.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Craig Horner (Richard) and Tabrett Bethell (Cara) occasionally let their UsefulNotes/{{Australian Accent}}s slip. Many New Zealander actors [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent don't even bother to hide it]].

* LadyOfWar: Kahlan all the way.

* EvilOverlord: Darken Rahl.

* SorcerousOverlord: Darken Rahl. Richard also becomes this briefly when possessed of the power of Orden in an alternate reality.