Blood of the Fold (105 page)

The men aahed and leaned back with this news, digesting it as Zedd dug into the roasted duck.

“
Do you know about these winds of change?” one finally asked. “And about this new Lord Rahl?”

“
Wouldn’t be a cloud reader to kings if I didn’t.” Zedd brandished his fork. “It’s a mighty good tale, if you gentlemen have a mind to hear it.”

They all leaned in again.

“
It all started before, in the ancient war,” Zedd began, “when were created the ones called dream walkers.”

Terry Goodkind is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
The Sword of Truth
series,
Richard and Kahlan
stories, author of
The Law of Nines
, foundational novel
The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus
, as-well-as collaborator for
Legend of the Seeker
, the Sam Raimi produced, Disney ABC television series based on The Sword of Truth books.

Goodkind was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, where he also attended art school, one of his many interests on the way to becoming a writer. Besides a career in wildlife art, he has been a cabinet maker and violin maker, and he has done restoration work on rare and exotic artifacts from around the world -- each with its own story to tell, he says.

While continuing to maintain the northeastern home he built with his own hands, in recent years he and his wife, Jeri, have created a second home in the desert Southwest, where he now spends the majority of his time.