Wizard's First Rule, written by Terry Goodkind, is the first book in the epic fantasy series The Sword of Truth.

Published by Tor Books, it was released on August 15, 1994 in hardcover, and in mass market paperback in September 1995.

Ten weeks after I'd written 'The End' it sold for a record price ($275,000),"[2] the most money ever paid for a fantasy novel by a first time author.

He discovers a piece of vine in his father's house, and searches the mountains for a live part of the plant, thinking it might lead him to the murderers.

Kahlan pleads for Zedd's help, asking for him to name a Seeker of Truth to confront Darken Rahl, the ruler of D'Hara.

Once through, Richard asks Kahlan to lead them to the Mud People, a tribe with the ability to contact spirit ancestors, for guidance on how to prevent Rahl from seizing the third box of Orden.

After convincing the Mud People that they are honorable, and seek to help all humans, Richard and Kahlan become members of tribe.

Darken Rahl interrupts the gathering, slaughters several Mud People and kidnaps Siddin, a tribe member and friend of Richard.

Kahlan tells Richard her secret, that she is a Confessor, an enchanted person whose power of love destroys the minds of others and enslaves them.

Mord-Sith wear skin-tight red leather catsuit, blood-red, to hide the blood of their captives during the training sessions.

After only half an hour at her mercy, he is left groveling on the dungeon floor, begging to please his mistress to avoid pain.

She manages to train and break him by the use of several instruments, including a painful small red leather rod by the name of the Agiel.

"Terri Windling identified Wizard's First Rule as one of the best fantasy debuts of 1994, saying that although the novel was "derivative," it "does have a certain charm and earnestness about it".

[5] Kirkus Reviews called the novel "a wonderfully creative, seamless, and stirring epic fantasy debut.

"[4] Booklist favorably described the novel as the "first volume of a saga" and within the "same breath as Robert Jordan" but "hardly an aspirant to Tolkien's mantle.

"[6] The review also stated that "the characters and their world come to life, and Goodkind's ambitious juxtaposition of modern ambiguities and the classical fantasy setting works more often than not.