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autumnrae89 January 10 2010, 17:40:15 UTC
And the male heir must also have the gift. It's what makes the agiels work and keeps the 'connection' (through the prayer?) between the Lord Rahl and his people alive.

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moonspinner January 10 2010, 19:05:06 UTC
Yes, I guessed as much: it's a male-oriented power. But what about Panis? Isn't he still alive, and technically Lord Rahl?

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screamingintune January 10 2010, 19:12:58 UTC
no, Darken killed him.

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laracroft87 January 10 2010, 17:08:07 UTC
Not really)))

If you've read the books, you know that...well, I don't know if I should tell 'cause it's actually would be a major spoiler for the books.

The idea is that Jennsen has no magic, the spark of magic and she had to be killed. Only the Rahls with magic should live.

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moonspinner January 10 2010, 19:19:26 UTC
Go ahead and spoil. The TV show isn't following the books, is it? Because I think in the books, Darken is Richard's father, not his half-brother.

So if Jennsen is out of the equation, what about Panis?

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laracroft87 January 11 2010, 12:22:34 UTC
Well Panis was killed by Zedd and Rahl was near when Zedd released the wizard's fire so he[Darken] had burn on his leg that's why he used to touch his lips.
Jennsen is half-sister for Richard and actually in the 7th book we got to know that Richard had a half-brother and not the one))) Really big family.

So, whether the Rahls live or die - that's depend if they have the spark of magic.

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screamingintune January 10 2010, 17:08:47 UTC
I don't think we know for sure that Jennsen is a Rahl, do we? We know they had the same mother but we don't that they had the same father.

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tainted_want January 10 2010, 17:52:45 UTC
In the books she is a Rahl. Darken Rahl is her father...might change with the show though

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screamingintune January 10 2010, 17:55:53 UTC
yeah, at this point I don't think we can assume that what holds true for the books holds true for the show, though.

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philstar22 January 10 2010, 22:13:25 UTC
Well, in the book, it has to be the firstborn gifted heir (which presumably means male) who holds the title. That would rule out Jennsen because she's not the firstborn heir and she isn't gifted.

I guess the assumption would be that Panis eventually died. Otherwise, why would he not have come back after Darken was dead?

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moonspinner January 11 2010, 08:37:56 UTC
Otherwise, why would he not have come back after Darken was dead?

Hopefully, the show will show us why. I'm inclined to think that Panis is still alive, because showing a Mord-Sith resurrect him and then killing him off-screen just seems redundant. Why not just end his story with Darken killing him?

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sawcat January 11 2010, 04:32:37 UTC
Jensen can't since she is pristinely ungifted- magic has no effect on her, so even if she was able to inherit the "Lord Rahl" title, it would still die.

If Panis was alive and still had his magic, then in theory, the bond would still work (the way they seem to be playing it). But I don't think there is a chance that Darken Rahl let him live, the way they've written Panis. Otherwise he'd have come forward to claim or name Richard "Lord Rahl" when Darken Rahl was killed.

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moonspinner January 11 2010, 08:34:13 UTC
But I don't think there is a chance that Darken Rahl let him live, the way they've written Panis. Otherwise he'd have come forward to claim or name Richard "Lord Rahl" when Darken Rahl was killed.

Darken Rahl did kill his father in rage when he found out that Panis had sired a son for the sole purpose to defeat him. And a Mord-Sith brought him back to life and Panis has been in hiding ever since then. This was shown clearly in Episode 2x01. Darken Rahl finding out about this and killing him afterwards is redundant: why clearly show Panis Rahl's resurrection just to have him die again off-screen by the hands of the same man?

I think it's obvious that this was a continuity error on the part of the writers.

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sawcat January 11 2010, 17:43:52 UTC
Panis did have himself brought back by a Mord Sith, but I don't recall them specifically saying what happened to him afterwards. We got it all as flash back from the General, so if they are going that he didn't know and that's why we don't. Darken Rahl would be pissed when finding him to be alive again (if Magic is as it was in the books, he'd know).

There are tons of continuity errors in the series- the more they go away from book canon seems like the more they have. And with the way they are treating the bond they are likely to make a ton more. They've gone a little too far on the Disney-fication of the books, that it kind of kills some of the good parts or characters, like the bond and Denna

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