When Richard recovers from the snakevine bites, he identifies Zedd as the First Wizard whom Kahlan seeks. Zedd identifies the plant as snakevine, and treats Richard.

Soon after arriving at Zedd's, Richard collapses from the illness caused by the vine after showing Zedd his vine piece.

Richard takes Kahlan to his best friend and mentor, Zedd. Richard helps to save Kahlan's life from the men, and learns that Kahlan crossed the boundary with the aid of five wizards searching for the First Wizard, who is rumored to have crossed into Westland after the creation of the boundaries. Trying to return to town to find healing help, he happens upon a woman named Kahlan Amnell, who is being hunted by a group of four men sent to assassinate her. He finds the plant, but it attacks him, implanting a poisonous thorn. He discovers a small 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.

Richard works as a woods guide leading important political figures through dangerous forests, while his brother, Michael, is a newly elected minister of the Westland.Īfter the unexplained murder of his father, Richard feels compelled to investigate. Of the three, Westland is united under one government and contains no magic, the Midlands are a coalition of sovereign nations with magic, and past another magical boundary lies the empire of D'Hara - a single kingdom ruled by Wizards. Richard lives in an area of the world known as Westland, which is one of three parts of the known world, divided by magical underworld boundaries. The primary protagonist in Wizard's First Rule is Richard Cypher, a young woods guide.

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