Mord'Sith
The House of Rahl's torturers and bodyguards.
The Mord-Sith are women in The Sword of Truth who serve, mainly for the House of Rahl, as torturers and bodyguards. Taken as children and tortured into madness, they wear tight red leather and a single long braid.
Quick Facts
- Weapon
- Agiel
- Serve
- House of Rahl
- Notable mord-sith
- Cara
Facts from the source article.
Background
Their weapon is the Agiel, a leather rod on a gold chain powered by their bond to a master; it can inflict any harm its user wishes but usually hurts her too, since a Mord-Sith often carries the Agiel she was tortured with. Because of that bond, a Mord-Sith has no power without a master. The touch of a Confessor kills a Mord-Sith in a violent and painful death. Debt of Bones notes that they were once more widespread. Cara, one of the series' protagonists, is a Mord-Sith, and the main series ends with her marriage to General Meiffert. The Morazeth of Ildakar are a variation on them.
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