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Naked Empire :: Goodkind Terry
Страница: 72 из 495They thought that these pillars of Creation could be cured of being pristinely ungifted, much like wizards with only Additive could be trained to use both sides of the magic, and those without the gift for wizardry could be made wizards able to use at least the Additive side of it."
The way he used his hands when he talked reminded her of the way Zedd did when he became worked up. "They tried to modify the very nature of how these people had been born. They tried to take people without any spark of the gift, and alter them in a desperate attempt to give them the ability to interact with magic. They weren't just adding or enhancing, they were trying to create something out of nothing."
Kahlan didn't like the sound of that. They knew that in those ancient times the wizards had great power, and they altered people with the gift, manipulated their gift, to suit a specific purpose.
They created weapons out of people.
In the great war, Jagang's ancestors were one such weapon: dream walkers. Dream walkers were created to be able to take over the minds of people in the New World and control them. Out of desperation, the bond of the Lord Rahl was created to counter that weapon, to protect a people from the dream walkers.
Any number of human weapons were conjured from the gifted. Such changes were often profound, and they were irrevocable. At times, the creations were monsters of boundless cruelty. From this heritage, Ja-gang had been born.
During that great war, one of the wizards who had been put on trial for treason refused to reveal what damage he had done. When even torture failed to gain the man's confession, the wizards conducting the trial turned to the talents of a wizard named Merritt and ordered the creation of a Confessor.
Magda Searus, the first Confessor, extracted the man's confession. The tribunal was so pleased with the results of Wizard Merritt's conjuring that they commanded that an order of Confessors be created.
Kahlan felt no different than other people felt, she was no less human, no less a woman, loved life no less, but her Confessor's power was the result of that conjuring. She, too, was a descendant of women altered to be weapons-in this case weapons designed to find the truth.
"What's the matter?" Richard asked.
She glanced over and saw the look of concern on his face. Kahlan forced a smile and shook her head that it was nothing.
"So what is it that you discovered by jumping ahead in the book?"
Richard took a deep breath as he folded his hands over the pommel of the saddle.
The way he used his hands when he talked reminded her of the way Zedd did when he became worked up. "They tried to modify the very nature of how these people had been born. They tried to take people without any spark of the gift, and alter them in a desperate attempt to give them the ability to interact with magic. They weren't just adding or enhancing, they were trying to create something out of nothing."
Kahlan didn't like the sound of that. They knew that in those ancient times the wizards had great power, and they altered people with the gift, manipulated their gift, to suit a specific purpose.
They created weapons out of people.
In the great war, Jagang's ancestors were one such weapon: dream walkers. Dream walkers were created to be able to take over the minds of people in the New World and control them. Out of desperation, the bond of the Lord Rahl was created to counter that weapon, to protect a people from the dream walkers.
Any number of human weapons were conjured from the gifted. Such changes were often profound, and they were irrevocable. At times, the creations were monsters of boundless cruelty. From this heritage, Ja-gang had been born.
During that great war, one of the wizards who had been put on trial for treason refused to reveal what damage he had done. When even torture failed to gain the man's confession, the wizards conducting the trial turned to the talents of a wizard named Merritt and ordered the creation of a Confessor.
Magda Searus, the first Confessor, extracted the man's confession. The tribunal was so pleased with the results of Wizard Merritt's conjuring that they commanded that an order of Confessors be created.
Kahlan felt no different than other people felt, she was no less human, no less a woman, loved life no less, but her Confessor's power was the result of that conjuring. She, too, was a descendant of women altered to be weapons-in this case weapons designed to find the truth.
"What's the matter?" Richard asked.
She glanced over and saw the look of concern on his face. Kahlan forced a smile and shook her head that it was nothing.
"So what is it that you discovered by jumping ahead in the book?"
Richard took a deep breath as he folded his hands over the pommel of the saddle.