First publish: 1994
Pages: 820

Summarie:
In the book are 3 lands: at the left Westland, The Midlands and at the right D’hara, they were separated by magic boundaries which you can’t cross, because there was a war in which the ruler of D’Hara wanted to rule all the countries. At the end of the war, some people wanted to live without magic, so they created Westland, where no magical things or creatures are.
When the book starts, the main character, Richard,who’s living in westland, is looking for a tree, because George Cypher, his father was murdered by someone, and Richard found in his fathers house, in a jar where they kept important things, a vine and he thinks it is a last message from his father. When he finds the tree, a vine from it bites him, so he wants to go to his old friend Zedd, but on his way he sees an unknown woman followed by 4 men.
He goes to her and tells that she’s being followed, she says that they are a quad, 4 men send to murder and want to kill her, so they flee, but the men find them anyway and Richard has to kill one and the woman kills the 3 others with some kind of magic, a thunder with no sound.
She tells that her name is Kahlan and she comes from The Midlands. Richard doesn’t know what he must think. They’re going Richards brother, Michael, who is first councilor and he’s holding a speech, then they’re going to Richards place, because he wants to have a triangular shaped tooth which he had gotten from his father, the tooth is from a beast that his father killed when he stole a very important book from it, \\\"The book of counted shadows”, and he made Richard learn the book by heart and made him promise to never speak of it again and then destroyed it.
But there is someone in Richards house, so he sneakes in, gets his tooth and some other stuff and Richard and Kahlan go on their way to Zedd.
On their way to Zedd, they meet a longtailed-gar, it’s a magical, carnivorous creature from D’Hara, but it doesn’t notice them.
It’s getting dark, so they stop in a wayward pine, it’s a kind of shelter tree. Then Kahlan tells to Richard that the boundary between The Midlands and D’Hara vanished and that Darken Rahl, the current ruler of D’Hara is invasing The Midlands. Kahlan was sent to Westland through the boundary with the help of five wizards who got killed while trying. In Westland, Kahlan has to find the First Wizard, who made the boundaries fifty years ago and then vanished to Westland. Then Kahlan shows Richard a night wisp,called Shar, a little creature who helped Kahlan cross the boundary and is going to die soon. She wants to talk with it alone, so Richard leaves the tree. Shar tells Kahlan that she has to tell who she is, but Kahlan sais she doesn’t want to. Then she askes Kahlan to touch her with her power, so she dies happily. From outside, Richard again sees thunder with no sound. The next day, Richard got a fever from the vine that bit him, but they make it to Zedds place, Zedd is also from the Midlands, but chose to be in Westland without magic when the boundaries came on, because he had arguments there. He knows what Kahlan is and gets angry, but that changes when he heard where Kahlan has been through. Kahlan tells him that the boundary between the Midlands and D’Hara has fallen and that Darken Rahl has put the 3 boxes of order in play. When Richard hears this, he is thunderstruck, because “the book of counted shadows” goes about the 3 boxes of order.
Because of the fever, Richard gets unconsciousness, but Zedd gives him a cure. While Richard is sleeping, Zedd and Kahlan have a chat. Kahlan says that Darken Rahl has killed all the confessors, except her, so you now know that she is an important woman, and then says that the First wizard has to apoint a seeker of truth, who must defeat Darken Rahl. Then Kahlan goes to bed and Zedd goes outside. There he commands a gar and tells it has to kill the other people who are on the way to kill Kahlan. So then you know that Zedd is the First wizard. Then he calls up his dead parents and askes for advice. They say that Zedd has to apoint Richard as seeker, they tell that Darken Rahl is after Richard too, but they don’t know why, but it is because richard knows where the book of counted shadows is, which Darken Rahl needs. They tell that Darken Rahl only has 2 boxes of order and that he is searching the last one.
When Richard is awake again, he figures out that Zedd is the wizard they are searching for. He knows because of 3 things. When Kahlan told the story about the war and the boundaries and what the first wizard did to the wizards in the midlands, that is to let them suffer the consequenses of their own actions, he thought that would be a typical thing Zedd would do.
And when Kahlan told where she had been through, his whole attitude changed and he said to them that they were safe. And Zedd would never lie about such a important thing like Darken Rahl. Then Zedd apoints Richard to the seeker of thruth, Richard has no idea what it means, so Zedd explains. The seeker is a law upon himself, he seeks the truth. He stand above kings and queens, even above confessors. Zedd gives him the sword of truth, which has magic and belongs to a seeker. There is only 1 seeker and it is a very important person and is the standard bearer of Justice.
Then Zedd explains what the 3 boxes of order are. They are not bad things of itself, but you can use it for evil goals, like Darken Rahl wants. When you have put the boxes into play, you have to open 1 on the first day of winter, that’s in 2 months in the book. One of the boxes represents dead, if you open that one, then you will die. When you open an other box, you will have the power over all things living and dead, like, just by a thought, you can kill someone, but you can also help people with it. If you will open the other box, then every living thing is incinerated into nothingness. You can learn how to open the right box with “the book of counted shadows”. Richard knows all this, but acts if he doesn’t, but know he does know who has killed his father.
Because Richard is now the seeker, Zedd and Kahlan rely on him. They have to get to the Midlands to get the last box and Richard figures out that there has to be a pass to cross the boundary, he doesn’t tell them why he knows that, but he knows because his father must had to cross the boundary to get “the book of counted shadows”.
Then they hear people outside and they take a look, it are farmers from the countryside who want to attack Zedd, because they think he is evil, but he scares them away and then they...








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