The Sword of Truth

On the data. The later books get numbered three different ways depending on where you look, which is why this page groups them. The estate's own site markets a single Sword of Truth of seventeen volumes, which is the eleven core novels plus the four Richard and Kahlan books plus the two prequels bolted on at the ends, and then presents The Children of D'Hara and The Nicci Chronicles as separate follow-on series. Other retailers count differently. The grouping here follows the shape of the story rather than any one shop's numbering. Terry Goodkind died on 17 September 2020 at home in Boulder City, Nevada, aged 72; the cause was not released. Everything listed here was published in his lifetime except the collected edition of The Children of D'Hara, which gathered all five novellas into roughly a thousand pages in February 2021. No new or unfinished fiction has been published since. On the television series, the important thing for a reader is how far it sits from the books. Legend of the Seeker ran two seasons of 22 episodes each, verified from two sources that agree exactly, produced by ABC Studios with Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert's Renaissance Pictures and shot entirely in New Zealand. Season one is loosely based on Wizard's First Rule and season two loosely on Stone of Tears, and that is the entire book coverage: two novels out of eleven. It is a monster of the week syndicated adventure show that borrows the premise, the names and a few set pieces and invents most of its episodes. The clearest structural change is that Darken Rahl is rewritten as Richard's half brother rather than his father, which detonates the central reveal of book one and reshapes everything downstream, and the novels' torture, sexual violence and long political set pieces are largely absent. Goodkind initially said he would be intimately involved in writing each episode and later stated publicly that the studio chose not to consult him on actors, scripts or any other aspect of the show. The cancellation was a distribution problem rather than a ratings one in the usual sense: it was syndicated and depended on station groups, and when Tribune Broadcasting declined to renew in March 2010 an apparent rescue by another network fell through, with cancellation reported that April and the last episode airing in May. The series ends unresolved and there is no book faithful conclusion on screen. A few dates are soft. Siege of Stone is given as 1 January 2019 in one place, 31 December 2018 elsewhere on the same page, and 2018 by a UK listing source, which is most likely a late 2018 UK release against a January 2019 US one. The middle Children of D'Hara episodes have conflicting months across sources, though the years are certain, which is why only years are shown here. The estate's own site lists the first two Nicci Chronicles books with their years swapped, so it should not be used as a date source for that sub-series. On what comes next, no new film or television adaptation is announced or in verified development against the sources checked, though that is the one item on this page most worth re-checking. Goodkind's non series contemporary thrillers, including The Law of Nines and the Jack Raines books, are deliberately not listed here.

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