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’The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason . . . Faith and feeling are the darkness to reason’s light.’ The Wizard’s Sixth Rule, the most important rule there is . . . And one that Richard Rahl, Seeker of Truth, has just worked out for himself. Sometimes it seems that life is naught but a dance with death for the war wizard and his lover Kahlan, until Richard suddenly and irrevocably turns his back on the fight, leaving the people of the New World to fend for themselves. As Kahlan struggles to understand his words, Richard is gone without warning - plucked from her side by a Sister of the Dark known as "Death’s Mistress". Without Richard’s unique magic, there may be nothing left for the New World but life under the crushing weight of the Imperial Order of Jagang the Just . . .