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The Third Kingdom Author Terry Goodkind Cover artist Rob Anderson Country United States Language English Series The Sword of Truth Genre Epic fantasy novel Publisher Tor Books Publication date August 20, 2013 Media type Print (hardcover) Pages 527 ISBN 0-7653-3599-9 OCLC 2013021461 Dewey Decimal 813/. 54 23 LC Class PS3557. O5826 T48 2013 Preceded by The Omen Machine Followed by Severed Souls [1] The Third Kingdom is the thirteenth novel in Terry Goodkind 's epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth, continuing the story arc started in The Omen Machine. Plot summary [ edit] Having survived their encounter with the Hedge Maid, Richard and Kahlan are stranded in the Dark Lands and captured by two cannibals, whom Richard repels with the help of a group of villagers sent by the boy Henrik. These people, led by a woman named Ester, hurry them to a village of caves known as Stroyza. There a young sorceress named Sammie tries to heal Kahlan but becomes hysterical when she discovers that Kahlan contains an active morbid force or 'presence of death', which she also sees in Richard.
Henrik reveals that a mob attacked Richard and Kahlan's caravan and that General Meiffert, Cara, Zedd, and Nicci concealed Richard and Kahlan. They fled to divert their attackers while Henrik was ordered to find help. He also reveals that they need a containment field to be healed. The only one they know of is in the People's Palace. They are interrupted by screams and other noises of struggle, and Richard destroys a number of reanimated corpses but the exertion pushes him into unconsciousness. Sammie heals their minor wounds but is unable to remove the death within. Though Richard awakens, Kahlan remains unconscious, and Sammie tells Richard the story of her family, including the disappearance of her mother and of the duty of the gifted people of Stroyza (which Richard reveals is High D'Haran for 'sentinel'): to watch the north wall beyond which the world of life and the world of death are united. On the other side are a people devoid of souls called the half people, created by the Emperor Sulachan in an ancient war who seek to obtain souls by eating their enemies.
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