BOOKS OF PROPHECY: Book of Counted Shadows, The Glendhill Book of Deviation Theory, Procession and Binary Inversions, Selleron's Seventh Task, Twelve Words Left For Reason, Destiny's Twin, Subdivision Of Burkett's Root, Collected Origins, A Pebble In The Pond, Fuer Grissa Ost Drauka, Continuum Ratios and Viability Predictions, Gegendrauss (means Countermeasures), Ordenic Theory, Chainfire.

******* By winter's breath, the counted shadows shall bloom. If the heir to D'Hara's vengeance counts the shadows true, his umbra will darken the world. If he counts false, then his life is forfeit.

Meaning:
By winter's breath,
Before winter solstice,
the counted shadows shall bloom.
The boxes of Orden will be opened
If the heir to D'Hara's vengeance counts the shadows true,
The "heir to D'Hara's vengeance" refers to Darken Rahl and "counts the shadows true" means if he opens the right box
his umbra will darken the world.
He will control the world for his own designs.
If he counts false,
If he opens the wrong box,
then his life is forfeit.
He will die.

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Should the forces of forfeit be loosed, the world will be shadowed yet by darker lust through what has been rent. Salvation's hope, then, will be as slim as the white blade of the one born true.

Meaning:
Should the forces of forfeit be loosed
If Darken Rahl opens any box of Orden,
the world will be shadowed yet by darker lust through what has been rent.
"shadowed yet by darker lust" means that the world will be in greater danger because of "what has been rent", the veil.
Salvation's hope, then, will be as slim as the white blade of the one born true.
The "white blade of the one born true" is referring to the Sword of Truth, meaning that Richard is the one born true. This also means that Richard maybe the hope or the "destroyer" of that hope.

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Vengeance under the master will extinguish every adversary. Terror, hopelessness, and despair will reign free.

Meaning:
Vengeance under the master will extinguish every adversary.
If Darken Rahl had opened the box of Orden that would allow him to control the world, he would have killed or bent to his will all of his enemies.
Terror, hopelessness, and despair will reign free.
Rahl's rule would bring all of these on the populace.

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Prophecy: Four True
Of all there were, but a single one born of magic to bring forth truth will remain alive when the shadow's threat is lifted. Therefore comes the greater darkness of the dead. For there to be a chance at life's bond, this one in white must be offered to her people, to bring their joy and good cheer.

Meaning:
Of all there were, but a single one born of magic to bring forth truth will remain alive when the shadow's threat is lifted.
"Born of magic to bring forth truth" refers to confessors and their magic. Only one Confessor, Kahlan, will live after the threat of Orden is over.
"Therefore comes the greater darkness of the dead.
This refers to the tear in the veil.
For there to be a chance at life's bond,
For anyone to remain alive,
this one in white must be offered to her people,
"This one in white" is Kahlan, the only confessor left, specifically the white-wearing Mother Confessor. "Must be offered to her people" means that she must be killed for the people of the Midlands,
to bring their joy and good cheer.
And the people must be happy about it.
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The Seeker who commands the wind against the heir to D'Hara...
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On the red moon will come the firestorm. The one bonded to the blade will watch as his people die. If he does nothing, then he, and all those he loves will die in its heat, for no blade, forged of steel or conjured of sorcery, can touch this foe.
To quench the inferno, he must seek the remedy in the wind. Lighning will find him on that path, for the one in white, his true beloved, will betray him in her blood.

Meaning:
On the red moon
The sign of the Temple of the Winds
will come a firestorm.
The plague
The one bonded to the blade
Richard
will watch as his people die
of the plague
If he does nothing, then he, and all those he loves will die in its heat...
Richard and Kahlan and Co. will also die if they don't try to stop it.
To quench the inferno,
To stop the plague
he must seek the remedy in the wind
Richard can find the cure to the plague in the Temple of the Winds
Lighning will find him on that path,
During the storm
for the one in white, his true beloved,
Kahlan
will betray him
To allow Richard into the Temple of the Winds, Kahlan believes that she has sex with Drefan, even though it is really Richard. She betrayed Richard by believing in the sex with Drefan.
in her blood
It happened during Kahlan's period.
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Jebra was the Seer that Zedd met in the People's Palace in Stone of Tears. Below are the prophecies she predicted about the people he asked about.

Prophecy One: About Richard
There was an image of a woman, a beautiful woman with long hair. Maybe a confessor, although I don't know how that could be...The woman's face and his love for her filled the aura.

This is from Stone of Tears and refers to Richard's love for Kahlan.

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Prophecy Two:
I saw him killing a man, but I couldn't tell how. Not with blood, but killing him just the same and then I saw the man he was going to kill: Darken Rahl and I saw that it was his father, but he didn't know it. That was when I knew who he was: the son of Darken Rahl, the soon to be Master Rahl. The aura was flashing in terrible conflicts. Commoner to king.

This is from Stone of Tears and refers to Richard killing Darken Rahl by having him open the wrong box of Orden. Although Richard didn't know it at the time, Darken Rahl was his father and, by killing him, Richard became Lord Rahl and leader of D'Hara.

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Prophecy Three:
One was of something around his neck. I couldn't tell what, but it was something that will cause him great pain, and take him from his woman...Kahlan, you said her name was...take him from everyone he loves. Lock him away.

This is from Stone of Tears and refers to Richard's being collared by the Sisters of the Light and taken to the Palace of the Prophets to be trained as a wizard.

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Prophecy Four:
I saw him in an hourglass. He was on his knees in the bottom of the half, crying in anguish, the sand falling all around him, but not a grain touching him. The gravestones of all those he loved were in the top half, where he couldn't reach them against the fall of the sand.

This is from Stone of Tears and refers to Richard's time at the Palace of the Prophets. The palace had a wizard's web cast on it that slowed the aging process of those living there. Since Richard's training was supposed to take hundreds of years, those he loved would be dead by the time he left the Palace.

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Prophecy Five:
I saw a knife at his heart, a killing knife, held in his own shaking hands.

This is from Stone of Tears and this may have to do with his pain in what Kahlan did to him.

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Prophecy Six:
He was in his fine red coat, the one with gold buttons and brocade trim. He was facedown...a knife in his back. He was dead, but at the same time, he wasn't. His own hands reached down to roll him over, but before I saw his dead face another vision came.

This is from Stone of Tears and it refers to the part where Richard lent his red coat to Perry, a friend at the Palace of the Prophets and Pasha kills Perry by mistake.

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Prophecy Seven:
He was screaming. I could even smell the burning skin. Then, whatever was burning him-I couldn't tell what it was-when it pulled back, he was unconscious, and there was a mark upon him. A mark burned into him...It was the mark of the dead, a mark of the keeper of the underworld. The keeper had marked him to be his own.

This is from Stone of Tears and it refers to the gathering that Richard calls with the Mud People. During the gathering Darken Rahl escapes the underworld and leaves the mark of the keeper on Richard's chest. The mark slowly draws him into the underworld, but before it can kill him Denna's spirit comes and takes the mark to herself leaving only the scar behind.

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Prophecy One: About Kahlan
Circles. I see the Mother Confessor running around in circles.

This is from Blood of the Fold and refers to the circle spell that Lunetta would soon cast on her. The spell caused Kahlan to walk in circles even though she thought she was going straight.

Prophecy One: About Zedd
Well, you are up in the air, with these wings, and you are dropped into a huge ball of flame.

This is from Blood of the Fold and it refers to Zedd's flight on Gratch to the Wizard's Keep in Aydindril. When they reached the Keep, they were attacked by mriswith so Zedd used Wizard's fire on them.

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Shota's Sayings...
These are miscellaneous prophecies and sayings that Shota , the witch, gave about Richard Rahl. These are all through the books.

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Prophecy: About Richard

Prophecy One:
Zedd will use the wizard's fire against you.

This is from Wizard's First Rule and refers to when Richard is under the effects of the enemy web placed by Darken Rahl. Richard approaches Zedd, Kahlan, and Chase to see if they have the last box of Orden but the enemy web makes them see Richard as Darken Rahl. Zedd automatically uses Wizard's fire against Richard. Richard easily use the sword to protect himself from the fire.

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Prophecy Two:
Kahlan has a power, and if she isn't killed, she will use that power against you.

This is from Wizard's First Rule and refers to when Richard is under the effects of the enemy web and Kahlan has gone into the Con-Dar. Kahlan sees Richard as Darken Rahl and uses her power on him. But becuase he already loves her, it has no effect on him.

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Prophecy Three:
If you lie with this woman, she will have a male child. From Kahlan, the boy would be a Confessor. From you, he will have the gift.

Shota's warning to Richard from Stone of Tears about having a child with Kahlan. It seems that Shota can see quite clearly that if they do, it will be a powerful male Confessor with the gift of Additive Magic and most likely Subtractive too. Of course we all know what living male Confessors can do.

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Prophecy Four:
You will be trapped in time.
You will have no chance of closing the veil unless you escape the trap.
Unless you learn something of the gift, you have no chance for either.

This is from Stone of Tears and refers to Richard's stay at the Palace of the Prophets, which has a spell causing people there age slowly the trap in time. Richard's main task in the book is closing the veil. Of course, he can't do that unless he's working with the Boxes of Orden. And he can't get out of the Palace of the Prophets, or close the Box without a fully functional use of his magic.

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Prophecy Five:
I see you both being wedded.

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Prophecy Six:
You have not heard the last message from the winds. You will receive one more, involving the moon. This will be the consequential communion.

This refers to the demands made by the Andolians carrying the message from the Temple of the Winds. It was Richard's and Kahlan's final choice to save their people from the plague at the sacrifice of their happiness and marriage.

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When the prelate and the prophet are given to the light in the sacred rite, the flames will bring to boil a cauldron of guile and give ascension to a false prelate, who will reign over the death of the palace of the prophets. To the north, the one bonded to the blade will abandon it for the silver sliph, for he will breath her back to life, and she will deliver him into the arms of the wicked.

Meaning:
When the prelate and the prophet are give to the light in the sacred rite,
When Annalina and Nathan are "burnt" in the ceremony,
the flames will bring to boil a cauldron of guile and give ascension to a false prelate,
The "cauldron of guile" is the trial of Prelate Verna and the "false prelate" is Ulicia, who replaced her as Prelate.
who will reign over the death of the palace of the prophets.
Ulicia was in power when Richard destroyed the palace.
To the north, the one bonded to the blade will abandon it for the silver sliph,
"The one bonded to the blade" refers to Richard, the Seeker, and "abandon it for the silver sliph" refers to when he had to leave the sword behind to enter the sliph.
for he will breath her back to life,
He will call the sliph back,
and she will deliver him into the arms of the wicked.
The sliph takes him to the Old World into the group of mriswith.

This prophecy was never actually stated. However, after Warren's headaches returned, he told Verna that she must go after the Sisters taken by Jagang as she previously planned and he must come with her if he was to have any chance to live. He came along, and after many trials and tribulations, Warren was partially healed by Nathan, thereby validating the prophecy.

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Patronizing past carries forward the same disfavor twisted to new use, for a new master...

Meaning:
Unknown. Warren gave this prophecy while controlled by Jagang. After he had his "lesson" with Nathan, he realized that he had "inadventently given Jagang insight into a prophecy that-"

This was suggested to me by Gregory Jones:
Drefan ascended Richard as the ruler of D'Hara. Think about it; Drefan is a cruel, evil ruler, just as Darken Rahl was. Obviously he would create the same disfavour to the people as Darken would, and that's very patronizing.

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Prophecy One

The prophecies say that the one who truly masters the sword's magic, and in doing so turns the blade white, will be protected from that fate.

This was spoken by Zedd to Richard after Richard asked Zedd if the sword's magic would have the same effect on him as it did on Samuel. As expected, Richard was able to turn the blade white by using love to control the magic of the sword.

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Prophecy Two

When Kahlan was young she was taught by wizards. Some drunken wizards taught her this and scared the crap out her. Little did she know that it's all about Richard...

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Chainfire Prophecies - Hardcover

p.289 - ...splitting the horde that vaunts the Creator's cause...a leader's lost trust...
p.295 - what he seeks is buried with the bones or what he seeks is buried bones
p.327 - They will at first contest him before they plot to heal him.
p.429 - What you seek is long buried. You must find the place of the bones in the Deep nothing. Beware the viper with four heads.
p.529 - In the year of the cicadas, when the champion of sacrifice and suffering, under the banner of both mankind and the Light finally splits his swarm, thus shall be the sign that prophecy has been awakened and the final and deciding battle is upon us. Be cautioned, for all true forks and their derivatives are tangled in this mantic root. Only one trunk branches fromt his conjoined primal origin. If fuer grissa ost drauka does not lead this final battle, then the world, already standing at the brink of darkness, will fall under that terrible shadow.
p.531 - Here we come.

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