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Richard
Richard Cypher
"They say it's my destiny."
Played By: Craig Horner
The Seeker of Truth. When Darken Rahl sent his soldiers to kill every first-born son in Brennidon, Zedd helped Richard by bringing him into Hartland and giving him to George and Mary Cypher. Kahlan arrives in Hartland to find Richard and Zedd. Zedd tells Richard who he really is - the Seeker destined to defeat Darken Rahl.
- Accidental Marriage: Due to Shota's spell.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Not as violent as in the books.
- Back from the Dead: Several times, most notably in Resurrection and Tears.
- Brought Down to Normal: Intentionally, by letting Nicci absorb his Han.
- Chosen One: Richard is selected mystically as 'the Seeker', the only one who can kill Darken Rahl.
- Chick Magnet: Kahlan is not the only woman into him.
- Child by Rape: Albeit a rape by fraud.
- Chronic Hero Syndrome: Stops to help everyone he comes across and is adamant about never sacrificing anyone's life for any reason. The women he travels with tend to get pretty snarky about this.Kahlan: Well, if you're going to rescue every Damsel in Distress along the way, then there's no time to waste!
Nicci: Do you always stop along your quest to help people? No wonder you haven't found the Stone of Tears, yet.
Cara: Who would have ever dreamed that the Seeker could go twelve days without stopping to save helpless children and distressed farm animals! - Determinator: Even the prospect of eternity in the underworld can't make him accept the Keeper's offers.
- Enemy Mine: Defied initially, and when he's forced to participate in one, he makes sure to keep the other party on a tight leash.
- Guile Hero: Gains traits of this in Season 2.
- The Hero: The chosen one, wielding the sword of truth, protecting the innocent? Richard's pretty much a picture perfect fantasy hero.
- Heroic Bastard: The result of Panis Rahl seducing Taralyn.
- Hot-Blooded: Richard frequently lets his emotions rule his actions. It often spurs him into making rash decisions.
- 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 the Beholder: Shota uses magic to make him appear to be another man.
- Magic Knight: Turns out he's inherited his grandfather's magic.
- Nice Guy: Valiant, compassionate and noble, even the Creator herself comes to recognize his kindness.
- 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: Turns out he can't be Confessed by Kahlan because he "couldn't possibly love [her] any more" than he already does.
- Real Men Cook: He is perfectly capable of putting together a tasty meal from what he can hunt or forage when moving through the wilderness. Cara at one point mocks him for the unmanliness of the pasttime, but he's undaunted.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Kahlan's blue. He's the more inexperienced hot tempered warrior, to Kahlan's calm strategist.
- Refused the Call: Until his father was killed. 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.
- Small Steps Hero: In contrast to Zedd and Kahlan, who are plenty heroic but tend to keep an eye on the big picture, Richard always wants to do the immediate good thing and help everyone who needs it, regardless of whether they deserve it and regardless of whether he's busy doing something more important.
- Temporary Blindness: Both blinded and healed by magic.
- Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: In "Reckoning", he's less than pleased to meet Kahlan's son with Darken Rahl, though his brother is less a rival and more he forced Kahlan to marry him.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Kahlan at first; her powers meant that if they were to consummate their feelings, it would destroy who he is. Although they did have sex once when she was magically split apart and thus her powers didn't work. In the last episode it turns out they've gotten around this by The Power of Love, as seen above.
- Workplace-Acquired Abilities: His skills as a woodsman, which are even used against him at one point.
Kahlan
Kahlan Amnell
Played By: Bridget Regan
The Mother Confessor. After Richard is named, she is sworn to protect him with her life and proves worthy to the team because, during battles, when she gets the chance, and when necessary, confesses people (uses her powers to put people under control) so that they can find out information and temporarily add someone to their team.
- Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the books, she wore white because she was already the Mother Confessor, and only the MC wears white. Here, she doesn't become the Mother Confessor until the episode Sacrifice, yet she still wears the white dress of the Mother Confessor before hand.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Her power to make anybody fall completely in love with her carries some pretty nasty implications, but in universe the confessors are a force of good.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted, Kahlan gets dirtied, sweaty and cut during many fights. She heals up like it never happened though.
- Beware the Nice Ones: As Mother Confessor, she is one of the most compassionate and kindest women alive, she's also one of the most merciless warriors.
- Can't Have Sex, Ever: Not unless she wants to make her partner a slave, as during sex Confessors are unable to control their powers.
- Child by Rape: Like all Confessors. Her father didn't choose to have children or be with her mother, because he was under Confession.
- Compelling Voice: Confession is basically a permanent compelling touch.
- Dual Wielding: Wields two knives in combat.
- Fate Worse than Death: In Season 1's finale "Reckoning", she considers dying more preferable than marrying Darken Rahl and bearing him children, but to help Richard, she had to agree.
- Hoist By Her Own Petard: In the Season 2 finale, Nicci uses Kahlan's own Han against her, causing Kahlan to be confessed.
- Lady of War: Frequently battles in slow-motion with knives without mussing her pretty medieval dresses.
- 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 her sister is brought Back from the Dead, so she's no longer the only one.
- Like Mother, Unlike Daughter: Her mother used her powers to confess a man to father her daughters. Kahlan refuses to even consider the notion on Richard.
- Literal Split Personality: In one episode her shrewd Confessor side and her emotional human side get split in two.
- Living Lie Detector: Can detect lies just by looking into someone's eyes.
- Magic Knight: She mostly fights with her twin blades, but also uses her Confessor's touch when its needed.
- Mind Control: A Confessor's powers means that she can make anyone love her completely, unconditionally, and they will do anything for her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: She mortally wounds Richard while being controlled by Nicci's powerful magic. When The Power of Love snaps her out of it, she responds with this.
- Nice Girl: As Mother Confessor she is one by default. Her compassion for the people, and her never-ending kindness are at the center of her being. Though she isn't one to be trifled with.
- Offing the Offspring: In "Reckoning", she tried to kill her newborn son when warning her husband, Darken Rahl, of the dangers of male Confessors and even offered to have a daughter instead, but comforting her son and developing an attachment to him prevented it. When she tried again years later, it backfired.
- The Power of Love: In the final episode, she breaks out of Nicci's control because of her love for Richard.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She falls for Richard, who is an all around good guy and The Hero of the story.
- Statuesque Stunner: Bridget Regan is 5 ft 9.
- Undying Loyalty: She will do anything to help Richard, the man she loves. This includes marrying and having a son with Darken Rahl, the man she hates.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Richard; see above.
- Unstoppable Rage: When she goes into the 'blood rage' which is basically a super form of her confessor powers triggered by emotional distress.
Zedd
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
"Wizard's First Rule: People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it might be true."
Played By: Bruce Spence
The First Wizard and a Wizard of the First Order. After Richard is named as the Seeker of Truth, he swears to protect him with his life. He proves worthy to the team, especially on matters involving magic. When there is no one Kahlan can confess, he normally finds the right answer. He never rushes, always considering the consequences of his actions, and never fails to consider what has to be done.
- The Archmage: He was the most powerful wizard alive until Richard's powers manifested.
- Big Eater: Always the first one to think about food, and downs so much stew and so many apples that it makes sense why he'd worry about running out.
- The Casanova: Quickly drifts down this direction when he loses his memory, but he gets better.
- Cool Old Guy: 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. He turns out to be Richard's real grandfather as well.
- 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."
- Hellfire: Wizard's fire, which comes in handy for destroying many enemies who would otherwise refuse to stay dead.
- 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: He's the last surviving wizard of the First Order, after Giller dies.
- Naked People Are Funny: His Establishing Character Moment is standing on a rock, naked, talking to a chicken.
- Playing with Fire: Wizard's Fire, again.
- 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.
- Wizard Classic: At first it looks like Zedd is a crazy old man who plays with his hens while nude, but he turns out to be a powerful magician of the First Order. He becomes one of Richard's allies throughout the series. He fits most (although not all) of the traits-right age, gender, clad in a long robe usually (though without either a hat or a beard), his magic's explicitly wizardry (but he never uses a staff), he lives by himself, and shows great wisdom.
- 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.
Rahl
Darken Rahl
Played By: Craig Parker
The ruler of D'Hara. Darken Rahl once sent his assassins to kill every first-born child in Brennidon so that the Seeker may be one of the children killed and this can keep the "destiny" of the Seeker from being fulfilled, but Zedd escaped with Richard and raised him in Hartland. After that, Darken Rahl tries everything he can to kill Richard.
- Abhorrent Admirer: Whenever he's around Kahlan, he expresses attraction and interest in her. He was able to drink a potion that rendered him temporarily immune to her confessor power, letting him touch her without concern. During the season 1 finale, he put a collar onto Kahlan that renders her powerless and tells her he wishes to have his as his queen. Kahlan has nothing but hate for him for all of the horrible atrocities he's caused, preferring death over sharing a bed with him. She only gives in to save Richard.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Blond in the books, dark-haired here, though his Body Double Walter does have natural blond hair.
- Back from the Dead: From "Walter" onward.
- Big Bad: He's the main villain in Season 1.
- Blood Magic: Because he needs it to power journey books.
- Brought Down to Normal: Once he comes Back from the Dead, he has no magic.
- Deal with the Devil: He made a deal with the Keeper long before the series began, though this isn't revealed until the second season.
- The Dragon: The lieutenant to the Keeper, who replaces him as the main villain, in Season 2.
- Evil Overlord: As the Lord Rahl of D'Hara.
- Grand Theft Me: How he comes Back from the Dead.
- Karma Houdini: He survives the season 2 finale.
- Kick the Dog: The news of his plot with Jennsen failing enrages him so much that he snaps a kitten's neck with his bare hands.
- Knight Templar: Repeatedly states that he wants to bring order and peace to the three territories by uniting them, and will do just about anything to accomplish that.
- Magic Knight: Even without his magic, though, he's more than capable of holding his own in a fight, shown when he has a Back-to-Back Badasses moment with his brother in "Extinction".
- Manipulative Bastard: He tries to trick several people into working for him, most notably Jennsen.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Darken Rahl.
- Offing the Offspring: Kills his own children upon birth to avoid them turning on him. The only exception was his and Kahlan's son Nicholas, who instead killed Darken when he came of age.
- Off with His Head!: He tries to behead Zedd, but it ends up being only a puppet.
- Patricide: He thought he did, but it turned out that his father survived the sword in the chest. Many years later, Rahl schemes to do this for real.
- Related Differently in the Adaptation:
- In the books he's Richard's father, not half-brother.
- Likewise, he's Jennsen's brother rather than her father.
- Sorcerous Overlord: He's one to D'Hara and the lands he conquered beyond it.
- Unwanted Spouse: To Kahlan in the alternate future of "Reckoning".
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Kahlan theorizes this when she's watching over their son. His father's flashbacks, however, show he had sociopathic tendencies at a young age.
- You Have Failed Me: Often says this to his underlings. And gets put on the receiving end of it for a change by the Keeper in the episode "Creator."
Cara
Cara Mason
Played By: Tabrett Bethell
A Mord'Sith. Cara is always feisty and sharp-tongued and has the stomach to kill good people when none of the rest can. She approaches problems with the simplest, most direct and usually most violent solutions, often to the chagrin and amusement of the others.
- Attack Reflector: Becoming a Mord'Sith enabled her to reflect magical attacks.
- Back from the Dead:
- She died in the alternate timeline created by the spell of undoing, but casting the same spell on Dahlia changed the timeline again and brought her back.
- Also in "Hunger," when she dies and accepts the Keeper's offer to become a baneling. She gets cured.
- 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 she's captured by Darken Rahl.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: As a child, from hyper-emotional, easily manipulable and completely against violence to The Stoic, a Noble Demon and a Torture Technician. She grew out of it.
- Broken Bird: By way of Mord'Sith training, which revolves around the principle of Being Tortured Makes You Evil.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Her feelings for Leo.
- Character Exaggeration: While Legend of the Seeker is generally lighter than the books, her character is noticeably Darker and Edgier.
- Composite Character: She borrows traits and roles of Richard's three main Mord'Sith bodyguards from the books, Raina, Berdine, and Cara. Like Raina and Berdine, she had a same-sex relationship with a fellow Mord'Sith, she serves as an advisor for Richard like Berdine did, shares a Pet the Dog scene involving a chipmunk like Raina, and naturally enough shares Cara's name and her role as being his longest-lasting bodyguard.
- Deadpan Snarker: Cara is constantly dropping sarcastic, cutting remarks after she's with the heroes, frequently complaining of Richard having an incessant need to help people which gets them sidetracked from the quest or not listening when she advises just solving problems with his sword.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Leo was trying to defrost her, and seemed to be making headway before he died.
- Depraved Bisexual: Though on the good guys' side starting in Season 2, Cara is still a hard-edged Mord Sith who proposes violent solutions to Richard's problems. Cara is soon revealed to have been in a relationship with fellow Mord Sith Dahlia, while also having casual sex with a man she meets and later their new Seeker Leo. She slowly becomes a bit nicer, starting with him (she admits caring for him when Leo dies). This may come off poorly as Dahlia is a Psycho Lesbian, while Cara only gets nicer after she's with a man, though in fairness it's probably not deliberate since the Mord'Sith are all messed up given they're brainwashed into being torture technicians through torture and coercion into harming others (so whatever their sexual orientation, you'd expect them to be kind of like this).
- Determinator: She manages to keep fighting, and interrogate her enemy, even after he manages to cut her throat open. Though she does die less than a minute later.
- Face–Heel Revolving Door: The episodes "Eternity" and "Tears" quickly put her on this path, thanks to Darken Rahl's scheme.
- Femininity Failure: Cara, a brusque, snarky action girl, is forced in "Princess" to go undercover impersonating a gentle proper lady in Rothenburg. There, women are oppressed and all noblewomen have to speak constantly in rhyming meter, only doing proper "feminine" things like crocheting. Cara, unsurprisingly, is poor at both of them and nearly found out. Zedd, ironically, is far more convincing portraying her aged aunt. She's also quite unhappy to wear a gown, while he isn't.
- Heel–Face Turn: She served Darken Rahl, but after her Enemy Mine situation with Richard, she reconsidered a few things.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: She still wears the default outfit of her order, albeit with the chest-piece removed.
- Important Haircut: The other Mord'Sith cut off her braid when they turn on her. She spends the rest of the series with shoulder-length hair.
- The Medic: Odd, considering her former role, but her Breath of Life has been used on numerous occasions to bring back to life the recently deceased.
- Patricide: The Mord'Sith deceived her into doing this of her own free will. Also an example of Shoot Your Mate.
- The Spock: By far the most pragmatic and least emotional of the main characters.
- The Stoic: To the point where she offers to teach Kahlan how to do the same, which she turns down.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Before her training, even fishing could make her uncomfortable. Her training quickly put an end to that.
- Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?: She often proposes violent solutions to problems, usually killing whoever is causing trouble for the group.
Recurring
Leo
Leo
Played By: Matthew Le Nevez
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 the Finale: He disappears for a long period, until he briefly shows up in an alternate reality.
- 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.
- Back from the Dead: Only temporarily, though, until reality is put back the way it used to be.
- Because Destiny Says So: According to Zedd, this is why he and Cara found each other again in the alternate timeline of Unbroken.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He dies by leaping in front of Nicci's lightning right before it hits Kahlan.
- Pet the Dog: Specifically, he's the dog Cara pets. He's the first guy who actually gets her to laugh, or admit feelings for.
- Shirtless Scene: He leaves the shirt behind when he trains with the Sword of Truth, something Cara is quick to take notice of.
- Taking the Bullet: The aforementioned Heroic Sacrifice.
Chase
Chase
Played By: Jay Laga'aia
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 Normal: He doesn't have any magic or magical weapons, and he doesn't need either to be deadly.
- Papa Wolf: No matter how bad things get, his family's safety is always his paramount concern.
- Race Lift: Played by a Samoan actor, but not described as any different from the rest of the (white) population in the books.
- 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.
Dennee
Dennee Amnell
Played By: Tania Nolan, Gina Holden
Kahlan's sister, also a Confessor, who is injured and captured by the D'Harans on the way to Westland.
- Action Mom: A painful and complicated breech birth in the middle of the wilderness? No problem! She's up again and cutting down fully armed and armored D'Haran soldiers like nothing the very next day!
- Adaptational Badass: In the books, she was a timid girl who could barely even use her Confession power, and died before the books even began. Here, she's almost as capable as her sister.
- Back from the Dead: When her spirit is put into a new body as part of Dena's plan.
- Cynicism Catalyst: Kahlan mentioned several times in the first season that the reason why she was so dedicated to finding the Seeker and stopping Darken Rahl was because Dennee had died trying to do it.
- Mama Bear: Enough to prompt her turning against the Mother Confessor.
- The Nth Doctor: Is Killed Offscreen between seasons and eventually resurrected in Lucinda's body.
- Not Quite Dead: She survived the fall she took in the first episode, though Kahlan thought she had died.
- Offing the Offspring: Mother Confessor Serena wanted her to, after she gave birth to a male child. She, Richard, and Kahlan went to great lengths to avoid this. Though tragically, she was forced to kill the child after all, when Rahl's Mord'Sith attacked them in hopes of gaining control of a male Confessor.
- Replacement Goldfish: Lucinda's son, for Dennee's own dead child.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After Denna brings her back to life and tells her where Cara is, Dennee wastes no time in going after her.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the books, she died before the first chapter, and certainly never came back.
Shota
Shota
Played By: Danielle Cormack
The Witch Woman. Sometimes an 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: A firm believer in prophecy, and that it cannot be changed.
- Fountain of Youth: She uses this ability to halt her aging. When deprived of her magic in an alternate timeline, she eventually ages into the same haggard appearance that she previously used as a disguise.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In season 2, especially, when she is trying to stop Richard because of the prophecy that he'll end up handing over the Stone of Tears to the Keeper.
- Wild Card: Though she's an enemy of Darken Rahl, she's most likely to cause harm while giving her own manner of "help."
Jennsen
Jennsen Rahl
Played By: Brooke Williams
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: Of a different kind than the Mord'Sith, as magic simply doesn't work when directed against her.
- Badass Normal: She's just a shepherd girl, but proves herself quite brave and resourceful though she has no special skills or magic. Given that she has both Rahl and Zorrander heritage, it's probably not surprising (her brother is also the Seeker of Truth).
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Jennsen's quite pretty, but this is averted by way of a gigantic black eye when she's captured by D'Haran soldiers.
- Nice Girl: Jennsen is a quiet, kind young woman, though she'll grow angry when pressed.
- Mythology Gag: She first appears in a scene with her goat, who had a more prominent role in the books.
Denna
Denna
Played By: Jessica Marais
A Mord'Sith in service to Darken Rahl, changed with breaking the Seeker.
- Adaptational Villainy: She does not go through a Heel–Face Turn as she did in the book, remaining an enemy of Richard's during all of her appearances.
- Agony Beam: She uses the agiel more than any character except Cara.
- Character Exaggeration: Her evilness and scheming nature are more prominant, and her redeemable traits are downplayed.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: 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.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: She has a very powerful desire for Richard, to the point of wanting to have his child. She went as far as to kill him and replace his soul with another's who would be more than willing to sleep with her.
Nicholas
Nicholas Rahl
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Played By: Jack Hurst
The son of Darken Rahl.
- Ambiguous Situation: His mother implies that Rahl had used magic to ensure the child would be a boy. Her reasoning is that a male confessor is only born once a generation, and Kahlan herself acknowledged her sister had a son. She argues that a male born with her power would lead to corruption, offering to kill the child and willing to have another with Rahl, a daughter who would dote on him. Rahl never confirms or denies her accusations, though his refusal to have his son killed suggests her theory true and that he didn't want a daughter.
- Babies Make Everything Better: Nope, subverted. Darken attempted this by convincing Kahlan not to kill him and that their son is a blessing and needs her. By making Nicholas cry, Rahl gets Kahlan to grow attached to him. Despite the love she (and possibly also Darken Rahl) had for their son, it doesn't change how much she hated her husband. Nicholas still also grows up into a monster.
- Bald of Evil: As Lord Rahl.
- Canon Foreigner: He does not exist in the books. He is a character created for the series, specifically for this episode since there was no story where Richard is hurled through time and Kahlan was forced to accept Lord Rahl's marriage proposal and have a son with him.
- Creepy Monotone: His voice displays less and less emotion as he becomes more and more corrupted.
- Enfant Terrible: Kahlan did warn Darken male Confessors were likely to be corrupted by their own powers. Mother knows best, indeed.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He did at first, but when Kahlan realized that he was corrupted and was going down the path of evil, she tried to kill him. She failed, and afterwards Nicholas killed her himself.
- Evil Overlord: Took over the land after killing his parents.
- Hollywood Genetics: He has blonde hair, which neither of his parents have.
- Hope Spot: Delivers a particularly brutal one to Kahlan. When Darken Rahl sentences her to die for trying to kill their son, Nicholas tells him not to do it...because he wants to kill her himself.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: While he was already abusing his powers, he completely loses it after his beloved mother tries to kill him.
- Kids Are Cruel: Confesses a playmate and has him cut off his own finger because he didn't want to play the same games as Nicholas.
- Mind Control: Inherited from his mother, Kahlan.
- Ret-Gone: Thanks to Richard going back in time to the exact point he disappeared, he saves Kahlan and kills Rahl, thereby making it so Nicholas was never born. Given what he told Kahlan and her relief she never had to have Rahl's child, it's safe to say this is one birth that needed to be prevented.
- Self-Made Orphan: Murders both of his parents in the same day. His mother was understandable since she tried to kill him, his father was just For the Evulz.
- The Sociopath: A vicious animal for an Evil Overlord who brainwashes people to serve him and kills those who either resist or simply just because.
- Turn Out Like His Father: Many of his subjects are of the opinion that he's even worse than Darken Rahl, who definitely seems to have had this sort of influence on him.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: His mother, Kahlan, suggests his father might have been like that as well.
- Walking Spoiler: Only appeared in Reckoning, but even mentioning his mother's name is giving away too much.
- 0% Approval Rating: The only people who don't hate him once he's in power are the ones he's Confessed.
Nicci
Nicci
Played By: Jolene Blalock & Emily Baldoni
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.
- Adam and Eve Plot: After leaving the Keeper's service, she planned to let him wipe out most of the life in the world, and then repopulate it with Richard.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Played straight in "Dark", subverted in "Princess" when she possesses a new body, which is blond, like her book incarnation.
- The Archmage: 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 with her was Maia, the supposed Creator.
- Back for the Finale: Several episodes pass before she returns in "Tears" to try to influence the final battle against the Keeper.
- Back from the Dead: Twice. First by a new body, and again by the breath of life.
- Became Their Own Antithesis: The saddest part of her Start of Darkness consists of this, as she lost her idealism.
- Because Destiny Says So: The Keeper can't win while Kahlan is alive. Therefore, Nicci is going to do her best to kill her.
- Black Magic: An expert in all sorts of obscure and dangerous spells, from underworld magic to the Maternity Spell.
- 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 entire basis of her character, here.
- Cliffhanger: At the end of the series, Nicci narrowly manages to come Back from 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 primary schemer, and plotted to capture Kahlan; and most strongly, Nicci, a 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 and Troubled Past: Her experiences as a young Sister of the Light were what eventually pushed her into the Keeper's services.
- Deadpan Snarker: Especially in "Bound".
- Grand Theft Me: She pulls this on another Sister of the Dark, albeit one willing to sacrifice herself, in order to come back.
- Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: She's a lot more evil than the Nicci of the books, who was mainly a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
- Lampshade Hanging: Cara isn't the only one who notices Richard's tendency to try to help everyone. "Do you always stop along your quest to help people? No wonder you haven't found the Stone of Tears, yet."
- Magic Knight: In Tears, she cuts down two Mord'Sith before they even have a chance to raise their agiels. Darken Rahl quips that it was a dramatic entrance even by Nicci's standards.
- Manipulative Bitch: In her first appearance, she came close to tricking Richard into falling right into her scheme. She partially succeeded, as she eventually escaped the situation he left her in and still had his magic.
- Mega Manning: While all the Sisters of the Light and Dark can absorb someone else's magic using their dacra, Nicci makes full use of this ability.
- Mythology Gag: Her criticizing Richard for wasting his time trying to help people becomes hilarious to someone who's read the books. It sounds almost like Nicci taking a shot at her book incarnation.
- Psychotic Smirk: When she meets up with Richard and the others in "Bound".
- Rape as Backstory: She became a Sister of the Dark after realizing that the Keeper, unlike the Sisters of the Light, would let her use her powers to kill the prisoner who raped her during a service mission.
- Shock and Awe: Once she absorbs Richard's Han, she begins using this power with abandon.
- Shoot the Messenger: She incinerates a monk of the Order of Ulrich because He Knows Too Much.
- Straw 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." After her defection, she reconsiders a few things and becomes an Übermensch determined to destroy humanity and remake it in her own image, creating a new world more suited to her desires.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Darken Rahl refuses to give her the information she wants and instead tries to seduce her, she makes her displeasure known by superheating and electrifying his bathwater.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: She mentions this to Richard offhandedly, which he reacts skeptically towards. This prompts her to explain much of her past.
- Villainesses Want Heroes: After their heart-to-heart in "Bound", she decides that she won't kill Richard after all. She'll just make him her Sex Slave, instead.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: All the things she went through eventually drive her to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to destroy "all the pathetic life that inhabits this world," and start over.
Marianna
Sister Marianna
Played By: Elizabeth Blackmore
A Sister of the Dark who becomes the Keeper's primary servant.
- Anti-Magic: The Blood Magic spell mentioned below was used for this effect.
- Back from the Dead: Temporarily, when reality is reset.
- Black Magic: Uses Underworld magic to achieve things additive wizards can't, and even her normal spells have a sickly green color, like the flames of the Underworld.
- Black Shirt: She's been waiting for the chance to tear the veil all her life.
- Blood Magic: In an alternate timeline, she uses Jennsen's blood to protect herself from magic.
- The Dragon: After Darken Rahl returns to the world of the living, she seems to take his place as the Keeper's primary lieutenant.
- Evil Genius: She becomes the primary organizer and executor of the Keeper's plans after Nicci leaves his service.
- Mythology Gag: She communes with the Keeper entirely naked, which all Sisters of the Dark did in the books.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She fills Nicci's old role and acts a lot like she had, after Nicci leaves the service of the Keeper.
- 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
The Keeper of the Underworld
Played By: W. Morgan Sheppard
A being that rules the dead, and wishes to extinguish all life.
- Big Bad: The second season is driven by his quest to exterminate all life.
- God of Evil: The creator of death and evil, and opposite number of the Creator.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His ultimate goal is to kill every living thing, hoping that this will drive the Creator back to him.
- You Have Failed Me: To Darken Rahl when he fails to kill the Creator's avatar.
