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Characters from ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' include:
=== Richard Cypher{{spoiler|/Rahl}} ===▼
 
▲=== Richard Cypher{{spoiler|/Rahl}} ===
The Seeker of Truth. A former woodsman from Westland, he's pulled into the fight against Darken Rahl when he meets Kahlan, and turns out to be the key to defeating him.
* [[Accidental Marriage]]: Due to Shota's spell.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}
* [[Badass]]
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: Intentionally, by {{spoiler|letting Nicci absorb his Han.}}
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* [[Hot-Blooded]]
* [[Knight Templar]]: He quickly goes down this route when using the magic of Orden, and again when he is leading the Minders. He snaps out of it both times, however.
* [[Lie to Thethe Beholder]]: Shota uses magic to make him appear to be another man.
* [[Magic Knight]]
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: By defeating Darken Rahl, he unintentionally tears the veil and allows the Keeper to begin his war on the living. As Zedd says, the worst harm can come from the best intentions.
* [[The Power of Love]]▼
* [[RefusedRefusal of the Call]]: Until his father was killed. {{spoiler|and again when he was told that he is the rightful Lord Rahl}}
* [[Screw Destiny]]: He doesn't believe in prophecy.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: When he actually uses his magic in ''Perdition.''
* [[Temporary Blindness]]
▲* [[The Power of Love]]
* [[Refused the Call]]
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Kahlan; her Confessor powers mean that if they were to consummate their feelings, it would destroy who he is.
* [[Workplace-Acquired Abilities]]: His skills as a woodsman, which are even used against him at one point.
 
=== Kahlan Amnell ===
A Confessor, and now Mother Confessor. She was charged with finding the Great Wizard and bringing the Seeker of Truth to save the Midlands from Darken Rahl's tyranny.
* [[Action Girl]]
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* [[Compelling Voice]]
* [[Dual-Wielding]]
* [[Hoist Byby His Own Petard|Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: In the Season 2 finale, {{spoiler|Nicci uses Kahlan's own Han against her, causing ''Kahlan'' to be confessed.}}
* [[Hot Chick Withwith a Sword]]
* [[Knife Nut]]: Always goes into battle with two knives.
* [[Lady of War]]
* [[The Lancer]]
* [[Last of His Kind|Last Of Her Kind]]: Goes back and forth. Unlike in the books, she starts as one of many Confessors; then later on, they're all wiped out, leaving her the last. ''Then'' {{spoiler|her sister is brought [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}, so she's no longer the only one.
* [[Literal Split Personality]]
* [[Living Lie Detector]]
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* [[Woman in White]]
 
=== Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander ===
Wizard of the First Order. He fled the Midlands years before, bringing the infant Richard with him. He serves as Richard's mentor, and his mind is more than a match for his Wizard's Fire in getting the job done.
* [[The Archmage]]
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* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: After demonstrating his powers as a wizard of the First Order and blasting a tree out of the way, all he gets is, "thanks for moving the tree, Zedd."
* [[Eccentric Mentor]]
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Chickens]]: He's known in Westland as a crazy old man who talks to his chickens, which he can be seen doing while using his cloud rock. Let's hope none of them are [[Sword of Truth|Evil Manifest]].
* [[Hellfire]]
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Wizard's Fire is one of his most frequent tricks. Justified in the second season, as they're often fighting Banelings, who can only truly be stopped by burning their bodies.
* [[Last of His Kind]]
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]
* [[The Obi-Wan]]
* [[Old Master]]
* [[Playing Withwith Fire]]
* [[The Smart Guy]]: As First Wizard, he has in-depth knowledge of most every bit of magic the group comes across.
* [[The Trickster]]: Utterly ''owns'' Darken Rahl in "Puppeteer" through his wits and tricks alone, without having to cast a single attack spell.
* [[The Worf Effect]]: In ''Perdition'', Nicci easily deflects his magic, overpowers him, and knocks him down, demonstrating her status as the most powerful of all sorceresses. {{spoiler|Though he does recover in time to help Richard defeat her.}}
 
=== Darken Rahl ===
Master of D'Hara. The [[Big Bad]] of the first season, he had heard of the prophecy of the Seeker, and sought to kill him when he was an infant. When he finds out Richard is alive, he stops at nothing to have him killed or pressed into his service.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Blond in the books, dark-haired here.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}
* [[Big Bad]]: In Season 1
* [[Blood Magic]]: Because he needs it to power journey books.
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Once he comes [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], he has no magic.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]
* [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]
* [[The Dragon]]: To the Keeper in Season 2
* [[Evil Overlord]]
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|How he comes [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]].}}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Wasn't Darken Rahl [[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|an elf once?]]
* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: He survives the season 2 finale.}}
* [[Kick the Dog|Kill The Kitten]]
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]
* [[Offing the Offspring]]
* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: He tries to do this to Zedd, but ends up decapitating a puppet.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]
* [[What an Idiot!]]: Trying to seduce Nicci in ''Tears.''
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: Often says this to his underlings. {{spoiler|And gets put on the receiving end of it for a change by the Keeper in the episode, "Creator."}}
 
=== Cara ===
A Mord-Sith. Formerly a loyal servant of Darken Rahl, a trip to the future with Richard showed her what would happen if Rahl should succeed. She turned on him, and now serves Richard.
* [[Action Girl]]: Formerly [[Dark Action Girl]]
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* [[Anti-Hero]]: After her [[Heel Face Turn]]
* [[Anti-Magic]]
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]}}
* [[Badass]]
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Averted, once again. She gets beaten up pretty badly when the Mord-Sith turn on her in the season 2 opener, and is covered with cuts and nasty bruises when {{spoiler|she's captured by [[Darken Rahl]]}}.
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* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Tsundere]]
* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]
 
=== Leo ===
The new Seeker chosen when Richard is taken to the Old World to train as a wizard. A blacksmith, he shares Richard's courage and compassion, and was chosen by Zedd to wield the Sword of Truth.
* [[Back for Thethe Finale]]
* [[Chosen One]]: Not to the same extent as Richard, but he is still a true Seeker who was named in a prophecy of his own.
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Only temporarily, though.}}
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: According to Zedd, this is why he got together with Cara.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
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* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet]]}}
 
=== Chase ===
A boundary warden from Hartland and a long-time friend of Richard's. He remains loyal to Richard even when Michael turns the rest of Hartland against him.
* [[Badass]]
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* [[With My Hands Tied]]: Being unarmed, tied up, or having his wrists chained together are ''no'' inhibitions to winning fights, with his bare hands if need be.
 
=== Shota ===
The Witch Woman. Sometimes Ally of the Seeker and his friends, she has the gift of prophecy, and works to make sure the terrible result of her visions don't come true. This often puts her at odds with Richard and the others.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]
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* [[Wild Card]]
 
=== Jennsen Rahl ===
Richard's sister. A Pristinely Ungifted woman, Magic has no effect on her, making her dangerous and valuable to those that use magic.
* [[Anti-Magic]]
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* [[The Woobie]]: Among the first things that happen to her are getting kidnapped and then watching her mother die. It tends to get worse from there, and in the first half of the Season Two finale, in an alternate timeline, she's {{spoiler|kidnapped by Sisters of the Dark, who drain her blood and leave her to bleed slowly to death.}}
 
=== Denna ===
A Mord-Sith in service to Darken Rahl, changed with breaking the Seeker.
* [[Agony Beam]]
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* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
* {{spoiler|[[HeelDeadly Face Door SlamChange-of-Heart]]: She's shot with an arrow by Cara at the very moment when she seems to be considering becoming a better person.}}
* [[Light Is Not Good]]: In Season 2 her leathers and Agiel were white.
 
=== Nicholas Rahl ===
The son of Darken Rahl and Kahlan, in the [[Bad Future|timeline created when Richard travels into the future]].
* [[Bald of Evil]]: As Lord Rahl
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* [[Self-Made Orphan]]
* [[Turn Out Like His Father]]: Oh, yeah.
* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]
 
 
=== Nicci ===
A Sister of the Dark totally devoted to the Keeper and his cause to destroy all life. She is convinced that the Keeper cannot win while Kahlan is alive, and devotes her efforts to killing her. Later, Nicci renounces the Keeper as well as the Sisters of both the Light and the Dark and becomes a neutral party.
* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Played straight in "Dark", {{spoiler|subverted in "Princess" when she possesses a new body, which is blond, like her book incarnation.}}
* [[Amoral Nihilist]]: She believes the world is "like a lame horse" and that trying to do good will only prolong the suffering of existence, and everything would be better off if the world was "put out of its misery." {{spoiler|After her defection, she reconsiders a few things and becomes an [[Ubermensch]] determined to destroy humanity and remake it in her own image, creating a new world more suited to her desires.}}
* [[Back for Thethe Finale]]
* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: ''Twice''.}}
* [[Badass]]
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: The Keeper can't win while Kahlan is alive. Therefore, Nicci is going to do her best to kill her.
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* [[Blondes Are Evil]]
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: In the books, Nicci noted two things in passing: that she considered the world to be a wretched, senseless existence that had no purpose except for torment, and that she hated it when men "assumed they had a right to her body." These two traits seem to have become the basis of her character, here.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: At the end of the series, {{spoiler|Nicci narrowly manages to come [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] for a second time, but is now at the mercy of Darken Rahl and his Mord'Sith, who are using a Rada'Han to suppress her powers.}}
* [[Composite Character]]: Her character and role is a combination of ''three'' distinct Sisters of the Dark from the books: Liliana, a power-hungry Han-stealing sorceress who pretended to be Richard's friend at the Palace of the Prophets and tried to take his magic; Ulicia, the most powerful of the Sisters of the Dark who served as their leader and [[Evil Genius|primary schemer]], and plotted to capture Kahlan; and most strongly, Nicci, a [[Anti-Villain|sympathetic]] Sister with a [[Dark and Troubled Past]] who used a Maternity Spell on Kahlan, and was eventually convinced by Richard to leave the side of evil.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]
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* [[Over Nine Thousand]]: ''The'' most powerful of all sorceresses (or wizards) in the entire series by a huge margin. The only one who might have been able to compare to her was Maia, the supposed Creator.
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: When she meets up with Richard and the others in ''Bound''.
* {{spoiler|[[Rape Asas Backstory]]}}
* [[Shock and Awe]]
* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: Because [[He Knows Too Much]]
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* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]
 
=== Sister Marianna. ===
A Sister of the Dark who becomes the Keeper's primary servant after Darken Rahl and Nicci defect.
* [[Anti-Magic]]
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Temporarily, though.
* [[Black Magic]]
* [[Black Shirt]]: She's been waiting for the chance to tear the veil all her life.
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* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: She wants to burn the scroll that the Seeker needs immediately when she gets it, and is puzzled when Darken Rahl forbids her to.
 
=== The Keeper of the Underworld. ===
A being that rules the dead, and wishes to extinguish all life.
* [[Big Bad]]
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* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]
* [[Satan]]
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: to Darken Rahl when he fails to kill the Creator's avatar.
 
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Latest revision as of 21:21, 16 July 2021


Characters from Legend of the Seeker include:

Richard Cypher/Rahl

The Seeker of Truth. A former woodsman from Westland, he's pulled into the fight against Darken Rahl when he meets Kahlan, and turns out to be the key to defeating him.

Kahlan Amnell

A Confessor, and now Mother Confessor. She was charged with finding the Great Wizard and bringing the Seeker of Truth to save the Midlands from Darken Rahl's tyranny.

Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander

Wizard of the First Order. He fled the Midlands years before, bringing the infant Richard with him. He serves as Richard's mentor, and his mind is more than a match for his Wizard's Fire in getting the job done.

  • The Archmage
  • Badass Grandpa: Even when he can't use his magic, he can generally defend himself, at one point managing to beat a Mord-Sith with a walking stick, with a little help.
  • Big Eater
  • Casanova: Quickly drifts down this direction when he loses his memory, but he gets better.
  • Deadpan Snarker
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: After demonstrating his powers as a wizard of the First Order and blasting a tree out of the way, all he gets is, "thanks for moving the tree, Zedd."
  • Eccentric Mentor
  • Everything's Better with Chickens: He's known in Westland as a crazy old man who talks to his chickens, which he can be seen doing while using his cloud rock. Let's hope none of them are Evil Manifest.
  • Hellfire
  • Kill It with Fire: Wizard's Fire is one of his most frequent tricks. Justified in the second season, as they're often fighting Banelings, who can only truly be stopped by burning their bodies.
  • Last of His Kind
  • Naked People Are Funny
  • The Obi-Wan
  • Old Master
  • Playing with Fire
  • The Smart Guy: As First Wizard, he has in-depth knowledge of most every bit of magic the group comes across.
  • The Trickster: Utterly owns Darken Rahl in "Puppeteer" through his wits and tricks alone, without having to cast a single attack spell.
  • The Worf Effect: In Perdition, Nicci easily deflects his magic, overpowers him, and knocks him down, demonstrating her status as the most powerful of all sorceresses. Though he does recover in time to help Richard defeat her.

Darken Rahl

Master of D'Hara. The Big Bad of the first season, he had heard of the prophecy of the Seeker, and sought to kill him when he was an infant. When he finds out Richard is alive, he stops at nothing to have him killed or pressed into his service.

Cara

A Mord-Sith. Formerly a loyal servant of Darken Rahl, a trip to the future with Richard showed her what would happen if Rahl should succeed. She turned on him, and now serves Richard.

Leo

The new Seeker chosen when Richard is taken to the Old World to train as a wizard. A blacksmith, he shares Richard's courage and compassion, and was chosen by Zedd to wield the Sword of Truth.

Chase

A boundary warden from Hartland and a long-time friend of Richard's. He remains loyal to Richard even when Michael turns the rest of Hartland against him.

Shota

The Witch Woman. Sometimes Ally of the Seeker and his friends, she has the gift of prophecy, and works to make sure the terrible result of her visions don't come true. This often puts her at odds with Richard and the others.

Jennsen Rahl

Richard's sister. A Pristinely Ungifted woman, Magic has no effect on her, making her dangerous and valuable to those that use magic.

  • Anti-Magic
  • Badass Normal
  • Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted by way of a gigantic black eye.
  • Fiery Redhead
  • Mythology Gag: The scene with her goat.
  • The Woobie: Among the first things that happen to her are getting kidnapped and then watching her mother die. It tends to get worse from there, and in the first half of the Season Two finale, in an alternate timeline, she's kidnapped by Sisters of the Dark, who drain her blood and leave her to bleed slowly to death.

Denna

A Mord-Sith in service to Darken Rahl, changed with breaking the Seeker.

Nicholas Rahl

The son of Darken Rahl and Kahlan, in the timeline created when Richard travels into the future.

Nicci

A Sister of the Dark totally devoted to the Keeper and his cause to destroy all life. She is convinced that the Keeper cannot win while Kahlan is alive, and devotes her efforts to killing her. Later, Nicci renounces the Keeper as well as the Sisters of both the Light and the Dark and becomes a neutral party.

Sister Marianna.

A Sister of the Dark who becomes the Keeper's primary servant after Darken Rahl and Nicci defect.

The Keeper of the Underworld.

A being that rules the dead, and wishes to extinguish all life.

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