Death's Mistress
novel 2017 Sword of Truth
Record
| First published | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780765388230 |
Synopsis
Once a lieutenant of the evil Emperor Jagang, known as Death's Mistress and the Slave Queen, the deadly Nicci captured Richard Rahl to convince him that the Imperial Order stood for the greater good; instead Richard converted her, and for years she served him and Kahlan as one of their closest friends and most lethal defenders. Now, with Richard and Kahlan's reign finally stable, Nicci sets out on her own, charged among other things with keeping her travelling companion, the unworldly prophet Nathan, out of trouble. Their journey takes them to the mysterious witch-woman Red, into the street life of the port city of Tanimura, to deadly battles on the high seas and finally to a vast magical confrontation far from home, with the future of life itself, in the Old World and the New, at stake. The first book of the Nicci Chronicles.
Where it sits
- Universe: Sword of Truth
- Series: The Nicci Chronicles ; position 1 of 4 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Terry Goodkind
Notes
- The Nicci Chronicles: same universe/continuity, set after Warheart, following the character Nicci.
- From the series record (The Nicci Chronicles): 4 novels (2017-2020), same continuity as the main sequence, post-Warheart.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series The Nicci Chronicles: position 1 of 4: next Shroud of Eternity (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Truth
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Truth
- Tor (publisher description)
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