Reply #7: Ah! I see what you're talking about [View All]

now.

The Imperial Order is the brainchild of one man: Emperor Jagang. Is it any coincidence that both the first dream walker and the first war wizard in three thousand years have been born into the world again at roughly the same time? I think not.

In Goodkind's world, magic must exist; as is stated in Blood of the Fold, even a newborn baby of a mother without the gift is still touched by magic, even if only for a moment. Magic is 'the force' in his world, sent by the Creator to both hold together the fabric of Creation and imprison the Keeper.

The Order wishes to extinguish all magic, and the Order's ideaology stems from the preaching of Jagang. Jagang himself takes his cues from his ancestors, those ancient dream walkers from three thousand years ago.

The war wizards and the dream walkers were really two halves of the same coin, as I understand it; after Alric Rahl cast the spell of the bond, the dream walkers were less of a threat and the war wizards as well as other wizards in the New World were able to construct the Towers of Perdition.

I don't really see a parallel between the New and Old Worlds of Goodkind's realm and our own humble little nonmagical planet. Goodkind is describing an ancient evil in the form of an ideaology rising again, and it's a threat that could tip the balance into the favor of the Keeper, and thus cast all into the underworld.

That's a bit more extreme that any socialism comparison ;)