Han

**Han** was the power of life that was, according to the Sisters of the Light, encased inside mankind by the hand of the Creator. Humans used their Han when they directed their mind to do anything. Those who were gifted wizards or sorceresses were able to use their Han to perform magic. Han could also be taken by having the person relinquish it or having a Sister kill them with a Dacra to take it.

A wizard or sorceress was able to direct their Han to do things outside their body. A normal person used their Han when they moved, talked and other such everyday things, but their Han was otherwise useless. There were several kinds of people capable of using their Han to direct certain abilities outside of their body, however sorceresses and wizards were the most powerful.

Sorceresses were formidable women, capable of exceptional feats. However, they were only capable of some of what a wizard is. The male Han was naturally stronger than the female and it was thought to be impossible to absorb the Han of the opposite sex. The Sisters of the Light knew of techniques to absorb the Han of other females; Sister Verna absorbed the gifts of the two Sisters who gave their lives on their journey together. When on missions, Sisters gathered young wizards to be trained in their gift. They brought these young children (better at this age because of obedience levels throughout one's life) to the Palace of the Prophets. The Han encased inside the gifted caused excruciatingly painful headaches if the individual was not trained. Eventually, these headaches would kill the individual who possessed the Han if it was powerful enough. Only a Rada'Han, or training from another wizard, was able to prevent the headaches from becoming fatal.

The Keeper of the Underworld knew the secret of how a female could absorb the male Han and taught this to the Sisters of the Dark. Using a quillion, the Dark Sisters were able to gain the Han of a wizard, as well as Subtractive Magic.

War wizards are not able to sense their Han like other wizards or sorceresses, but rather they used their Han instinctively to perform tasks. War wizards who understand the Wizard's Eleventh Rule can use their Han by choice; it is unclear if they could sense their Han, though.

# Gift

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“*I’d be more inclined to call it a curse.*”
―Shota[src]
The **Gift** was the power of magic. One who possessed the gift was able to wield magic. These people were commonly referred to as the **gifted**. People such as wizards, sorceresss, and witch women were all gifted, though people who possessed a set type of magic or ability (like Confessors and Andolians) were not recognized as such. Those particular individuals were simply known as creatures of magic.

The gift was different from one person to the next. In some people, it manifested itself more strongly in certain areas. For example, a prophet had the ability to glimpse the future. Other wizards might have been more skilled at telekinesis, healing spells, or the construction of magical objects.

Power levels achieved by different gifted individuals could vary greatly. As a result, one gifted person might have been able to best another simply by combating the opponent with a superior level of strength. The more powerful the gifted person was, the more complex the webs they could cast became.

Those who could manipulate their gift were called the gifted, but even those who were unable to manipulate even the smallest spark of the gift were considered to have it. As such, they were still targetable by the power of magic. Only the pristinely ungifted, those without the tiniest spark of the gift, were unharmed by Additive magic. They could, however, be harmed by Subtractive magic. This was said to be because the pristinely gifted were still alive, and therefore still vulnerable to death. Death was said to be the power of Subtractive magic.

## Gifted Sects

Sects, groups or organizations of the gifted included;

* **Sisters of the Light**; Sorceresses dedicated to serving the Creator and using the gift to help His children.
* **Sisters of the Dark**; Sorceresses dedicated to the Keeper of the Underworld, who used their gift to further his cause.
* **Brothers of the Fellowship of Order**; Wizards dedicated to serving the Imperial Order.
* **Wizards of the First Order**; Wizards of great importance. They were more powerful than normal wizards and sorceresses. A Wizard of the First Order was the guardian of the Sword of Truth, and he alone was considered to have the necessary authority to name a new Seeker of Truth.

## Common Abilities of the Gifted

Common powers which were possessed by the gifted included:

* Fire.
* Lightning.
* Air Manipulation.
* Wizard's Fire
* Wizard's Life Fire
* Shields.
* Healing.

# Subtractive Magic

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“*He who cannot truly destroy, cannot truly create.* ”
―Joseph Ander - about the gifted without subtractive
**Subtractive Magic** is one of two types of magic that can be used by the gifted. While Additive magic alters physical reality by adding magic to it, Subtractive magic removes elements of physical reality. The magic makes the elements disappear, by transporting them to the Underworld, where Subtractive magic originated.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Discrepancy from Additive Magic
* 3 Combination of Additive and Subtractive Magic
* 4 Those who possess Subtractive Magic

## History

Subtractive magic used to be common in those born with The Gift, but eventually died out, such that the gifted would be born only with Additive magic for centuries. This was caused by the actions of a team of one hundred wizards from the New World who used their magic to lock Subtractive magic away within the Temple of the Winds.

The leader of these was a very high ranking New World wizard named Lothain. Lothain, as the high prosecutor who sentenced the team to death, was selected to undo the damage done in the Temple due to his strong belief in keeping magic in the world. However to gain access to the Temple he was required to take the path of betrayal, leading him to betray his strongest belief, the continuance of magic.

Lothain, corrupted from the path he had to take, released magic stored in the Temple for safe keeping-the magic of the Dream walker. This would allow a person from the future to continue the cause that the current Old World wizards had been unable to accomplish. The person that would be born with the magic released by Lothain would be Emperor Jagang.

The First Wizard of the time, Baraccus, was sent to enter the Temple, after numerous other Wizards lost their lives attempting to undo the damage done by Lothain and the Temple team, upon realizing that Lothain had betrayed the New World.

Baraccus was unable to undo the magic of the dream walker being released to find a host in the future. Instead, he created a balance of sorts; he made it so that Subtractive magic would, like the power of the dream walker, be released and born into another person far into the future, to counter the power of the dream walker. This person would be Richard Rahl. Richard Rahl would be the first wizard to be born since the initial sealing of the Temple with both Additive and Subtractive magic. He would be born a War Wizard.

## Discrepancy from Additive Magic

Subtractive Magic differs greatly from Additive Magic. It is devised to remove elements and place them in the underworld while Additive Magic adds elements. Destruction can be caused by either magic. Subtractive magic also allows someone to destroy shields created from Additive magic and directly kill Pristinely Ungifted people.

## Combination of Additive and Subtractive Magic

It is most devastating when Additive Magic is combined with Subtractive Magic. An example of this occurs when a confessor activates the Con Dar or Blood Rage.

## Those who possess Subtractive Magic

* Richard Rahl (By birth as a War Wizard)
* Kahlan Amnell (The opposing side of her Confessor's power, the Con Dar)
* Andolians (By birth, reason unknown)
* Cara (By absorbing the subtractive magic of an Andolian)
* Darken Rahl (Because he was an agent of the Keeper)
* The Sisters of the Dark (Because they were agents of the Keeper)
* Nicci (Former Sister of the Dark)

There are times that others with the gift may gain limited use of the Subtractive side. Those include the Sisters of the Dark, and those who pledged themselves to the Keeper, receiving use of it.

# Additive Magic

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**Additive Magic** was one of two sides of the gift.

## Description

Additive was the usual side that the gifted were born with; however three thousand years ago, during the great war, it wasn't unusual for gifted to be born with both Additive and Subtractive Magic.

Additive Magic was the power to add to something that is there, multiply it or turn it into something new. When the Wizards of old altered reality, they used Additive to add to or change traits that were required for the task that the being or object was to be transformed to perform.

The Additive side of the gift was often thought of as the magic of life, while Subtractive was thought of as the magic of death. This is why the pristinely ungifted were unaffected by Additive, yet affected by Subtractive Magic.

## Applications

﻿Additive magic has many applications. Some of the most notable include:

* Wizard's fire - done through sucking the surrounding heat to the Wizard's hands, multiplying this and shooting it at its target as fire.
* Lightning - by multiplying the surrounding heat the Wizard or Sorceress creates a spark which can be shot from their hands.
* Air Manipulation - by manipulating the density and flow of air around them a Wizard is able to move objects telekinetically.
* Shields - can be created through Air Manipulation.
* Healing - because additive is the magic of life, healing is done with additive by extracting the pain from the sick to the gifted body.

# Pristinely ungifted

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“*The person I fear most in the world."* *"The Seeker."* *"Oh, no. Someone far more fearsome than he.*”
―Darken Rahl and Denna, on the pristinely ungifted[src]
**Pristinely ungifted** people are those who are completely immune to Additive Magic. This is because they were born without a single trace of the gift unlike most people, who are born with a tiny fraction.

Often referred to as "Pillars of Creation" or "Holes in the World", the pristinely ungifted are unharmed and unseen by the gift, and it is thought that they do not see Additive Magic when used. Subtractive Magic, being the power of death and from the Underworld, affects them the same as it does any ordinary individual. Chainfire (spell) is an example of Subtractive Magic that has an effect on the pristinely ungifted.

Though Additive Magic can not directly harm someone who is pristinely ungifted, it can harm them indirectly. A bolt of lightning, conjured by a sorceress, will in itself not injure the pristinely ungifted, but shards of rock sent flying by the conjured bolt would still be capable of wounding them.

The trait of being pristinely ungifted was an unforeseen side effect of the bond to the Lord Rahl. At first, the only pristinely ungifted born were in the house of Rahl, but it was discovered that once the pristinely ungifted reached adulthood and mingled with the general population the trait would then spread to the newly born even though neither parent was pristinely ungifted.

A person who is pristinely ungifted will always bear a child who is pristinely ungifted, regardless of the lineage of, or gift within, their mate. Because of this, and the fact that the presence of a pristinely ungifted could cause the anomaly to occur in unrelated births, it was decided that the pristinely ungifted, if left unchecked, could theoretically destroy all magic by breeding the gift out of mankind. There is no way of restoring the link in the chain of magic once it has been broken in this manner.

To combat the possible erasure of all magic and to save their reputation, the house of Rahl banished the pristinely ungifted to the Old World so that they could not interfere with the populace of the New World. Also, any child born after the banishment that carried the anomalous trait was put to death.

At a later point in time, the wizard Kaja-Rang realized the same phenomenon was occurring in his land (a by product of the arrival of the pristinely ungifted that were banished), the Old World, and it was spreading. He rounded up all of the pristinely ungifted and banished them into a valley beyond the Pillars of Creation and erected a barrier to keep them from escaping. His actions saved magic in the Old World.

Richard Rahl is in part responsible for the eradication of the barrier, since his life is the one that was saved by Kahlan Amnell when she invoked the Chimes which eventually caused the barriers magic to fail. Since then, the pristinely ungifted have remained, for the most part, in Bandakar. That is until, by using the Boxes of Orden to counter the Chainfire (spell) effect, Richard Rahl created an alternate world without magic and sent those of the Imperial Order who wished to follow the tenets and all of the pristinely ungifted to live there. The inhabitants of the world in The Law of Nines are thought to be the descendants of Jennsen Rahl and all of the pristinely ungifted as well as the former members of the Imperial Order that were sent to this alternate world without magic.

## TV Series - Legend of the Seeker

In the TV series 'Legend of the Seeker', Denna made the statement that once every generation or so a child was born on whom magic would have no effect on whatsoever and they, in turn, couldn't use magic. Pristinely ungifted were obviously much more rare in the television series than they were in the books. In the first part of the two part series finale of Legend of the Seeker, some Sisters of the Dark capture Jennsen and drain her blood. They make a serum with her blood which destroyed their gift, and therefore, made them pristinely ungifted, letting them infiltrate the People's Palace unnoticed. Ungifted and pristinely ungifted are two very different qualities found in the books. Pristinely ungifted is an exceedingly rare trait.

## Known Pristinely ungifted

* Jennsen Rahl
* Oba Rahl
* Owen
* Anson
* Marilee
* Wise One
* Laurie