Debt of Bones

Author	Terry Goodkind
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Sword of Truth
Genre(s)	Epic fantasy
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	December 2001
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	128
ISBN	ISBN 0-575-07256-3
Followed by	Wizard's First Rule

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Plot introduction

Before the Boundaries there was the war between D'Hara and the Midlands. Zedd was First Wizard of the Midlands in charge of countering the dangerous magic of Panis Rahl, and was doing quite well until a supplicant came to the Wizard's Keep bearing a burden as heavy as bones. Abby's request was quite simple: Repay a Debt of bones by saving the people of her home, Coney Crossing, from the cluches of the D'Harans; save her daughter. But this is no simple debt to be repaid. If Zedd is to uphold his end, it might forfeit the war with D'Hara.

Plot summary

During the war against D'Hara, a young woman meets with Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Wizard of the First Order and First Wizard.

Much later in the plot, Wizard Zorander, during a coup attempt from the D'Haran Empire, summoned a massive ball of wizard's fire while invoking a spell of threes. With one of the three wishes the spell effectively grants, he gained the knowledge to summon barriers, barriers wrought from the underworld that split the Midlands, D'hara, and Westland. With the next invocation, he split the Midlands and Westland with his subtractive-magic barriers. While still summoning his blast of wizard's fire, he used the final invocation to create a barrier between the Midlands and D'hara. As the barrier went up, he released his wizard's fire, which screamed towards the palace where Panis Rahl and his young son, Darken, lived. The wizard's fire grazed the underworld barrier and gained it's properties, slicing through Panis Rahl's mighty defenses. Panis Rahl perished and his son almost died, permanently scarred--and vengeful.

Characters in "Debt of Bones"

• Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander
• Penis Rahl
• Abby