Then, they are tortured until they choose to torture and kill their own fathers they are broken the third and final time. They watch, helpless, as their mothers are tortured to death before them, to break them a second time. These girls are beaten and tortured with a weapon called an Agiel - a thin leather rod imbued with magic that makes it feel as if thunder and lightning are charging through you - until they are “broken”. Failing to thrown a knife as a young girl cost Cara her life.
Many of them, such as Cara, a woman who you, should you venture into either the books or the television show, become intimately familiar with, learn young the importance of not hesitating when faced with life and death decisions. Stolen from villages as young D’Haran children, the soldiers of D’Hara choose the sweetest, most lovely and wonderful girls with the kindest hearts and pluck them from their families. Goodkind can’t leave alone, but I can’t help but love several of them.įrom gruesome beginnings that have me asking some serious questions about why someone has fantasies about torturing children (because this is NOT the only example I can come up with of him describing the torture of children) come the Mord-Sith. They are at the same time antithetical and thematic of the philosophical bullshit that gets caked on to the poor horse that Mr.
The Mord-Sith in the Sword of Truth series are some of my favorite characters.
I preface it with a strong trigger warning for descriptions of violence, sexually hinted violence, spoilers, and very wordy rants. I have been talking to people more informed than me. Pop Culture Good Idea/Bad Idea: Denna, Violent Portrayals of Sex and the Mord-Sith in Terry Goodkind’s Universe Part Iīuckle on your roller skates, peeps, because this post has been a long time coming.