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The story ''Faith of the Fallen'' begins right where '' Soul Of The Fire '' leaves off. Richard is taking Cara and an injured Kahlan to the high mountains of his homeland, Westland . At the end of the ''Soul of the Fire'' Richard realizes that he cannot win against Emperor Jagang until the people themselves want to fight for freedom. Because of this mindset Richard isolates himself in the woods, to allow Kahlan time to heal, and refusing to give orders to the D'Haran army. He insists that the fight against the Order is a doomed cause and further resistance can only result in the loss of more lives. After Kahlan has made a significant recovery the trio is reintroduced to Nicci, an impassive goals of the USSR . Nicci's goal is to capture Richard, something that she accomplishes using the rare and difficult maternity spell on Kahlan. Faced with a hopeless situation, Richard is forced to go with Nicci into the Old World, leaving behind Kahlan, Cara, and the Sword Of Truth . Kahlan, alone and desolate, harbors a terrible rage against the Order. Despite knowing Richard's objections she returns with Cara to join Zedd and Sister Verna in the fight with the Order. She takes command of the desperate attempt to halt the Order's advance into the Midlands . Of all the books in the Sword of Truth series, ''Faith of the Fallen'' most closely pays homage to Ayn Rand , and has major plot parallels to her breakthrough objectivist novel '' The Fountainhead .'' Both books feature a climactic segment in which a statue of a human figure in a pose of exaltation is unveiled within a temple, triggering great public agitation in the wake of the event. Nicci 's internal conversion upon beholding the LIFE statue which Richard sculpted is (deliberately?) strikingly similar to Dominique Francon 's conversion upon beholding Howard Roark 's masterpiece. Antagonists in both books, Jagang and Ellsworth Toohey respectively, vocally advocate the philosophy of equality for all mankind, the opposite of the relentless rational individualism exhibited by the protagonists. There are many other plot, character, and setting parallels between the two books. Wizard's Sixth Rule In this volume we discover the Wizard's Sixth Rule : "The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason." |
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