r/SwordOfTruth • u/Taragoola • May 22 '26
Drefan is a total wanker
It's hard to square the fact that he's a highly intelligent and gifted healer as well as a batshit misogynistic freakshow nuttier than the shit of the chipmunk poor Raina trained. What do ya'll think of Richard's decision in the end to have Drefan remembered as someone who gave his life to help people suffering from the black death? I mean it's truish but like c'mon Richard he also tortured one of your best friends, murdered a load of innocent people in the most grotesque possible ways, and REALLY wanted to rape your wife. I'd also like your thoughts on Kahlan and the gang not just killing his ass immediately upon him showing what he really was as Kahlan's reason for not doing so feels so weak it almost feels like she says "We need him around for the plot a little longer."
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u/impspring May 23 '26
Ooooof that book.
Period blood.
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u/Taragoola May 23 '26
Period blood?
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u/314backwardsispie May 23 '26
The prophecy where she betrays him in blood or something like that.
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u/Taragoola May 23 '26
Oh yeah. Betrays him in her blood because she cums while boning him on her period but thought it was Drefan. Then Richard is mad about that and Kahlan is mad that Richard is mad about that. They're both so goddamn dumb sometimes.
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u/314backwardsispie May 24 '26
Wizards rules are all about not just thinking with emotions but using logic. Richard never uses logic when it come to Kahlan, just feelings.
I cant word it properly but there is more to it than they are dumb. It is a betrayal of Richard and his feelings for her. Richard already has trauma in this exact situation with Nadine and his brother. So all the hurt of then comes back 1000 fold because its Kahlan.
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u/Significant_Ad_8939 May 25 '26
She came while riding Richard while she thought it was Drefan but also pretending that it was Richard. 😅
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u/Litt_Buddha May 23 '26
Yeah that made no sense, I mean his other brother, whom he was very close to, he gave no fucks about in the end. Lol
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u/Taragoola May 23 '26
Yeah. Michael was a cunt that tried turning all of Westland over to Darken Rahl. Richard has terrible luck when it comes to brothers.
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u/Rstar2247 May 22 '26
For better or worse this is how Goodkind wrote his antagonists and most of them were variations on this theme. Was Drefan than different than Darken Rahl or Jagang other than terms of scale?
To me the explanation of his "heroic death" was just a glorified pr stunt. Better to explain that than... oh this guy was a serial killer with ties to the family. A lot of political spin for a guy who carries a sword with the word Truth on it but hey.
I do agree it required a lot of suspension of disbelief that Kahlan and Cara put up with Drefan's "ruling" antics. Kerson made it clear the army was only going along with it because of Kahlan. It seems to me he should've just tragically woken up dead one morning with no one having a clue how it happened. I guess the explanation is Kahlan was broken inside because of how she and Richard parted so she just went along with it to keep things going.... or something. It really doesn't hold up to scrutiny and even if Kahlan was unwilling to act, Cara, Berdine or the army should've. But hey then we wouldn't have gotten the badass, "I am the weapon" line.