Adie

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This article is about the fictional character. For the recording artist, see Adrienne Camp.

Adie is a fictional character in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

[edit] Physical Description

Adie is a tall fine-looking woman, taller than Kahlan, but not as tall as Richard. She typically wears a simple tan robe of a coarse weave with red and yellow symbols and decoration at the neck. Her hair is fine and straight, a mix of black and gray, parted in the middle, and chopped square with her strong jaw. Age has not stolen the handsome features of her weathered face, which is covered in fine wrinkles. For a good part of her life, she leaned on a crutch, having had to sever her own foot when a gripper attached itself to her in the King's Port pass. Zedd restored her lost foot during his first visit. Her eyes are completely white and she is physically blind, although she can see with her gift. She has thin lips and her voice has a harsh, throaty, raspy quality that can send shivers up one's spine. Her arms are skinny, her hands wrinkled, and her fingers slender.

[edit] General Characteristics

Adie is an old but powerful sorceress. She lived in the mouth of the King's Port in Westland, about 4 hours ride from Southaven. Many call her the bone woman. Most of the people of Southaven were afraid of her and wouldn't go near her home (partially because she lived so close to the boundary). Many also thought she was bad luck of some sort and that the people she didn't like had a bad habit of dropping dead. Whether these rumors were true or not is unknown, although she has been known to help some folks out from time to time. She is known, as most sorceresses are, for speaking in riddles.

Adie claims that she lived in the mouth of the pass because she became tired of people coming to her all the time, wanting spells and potions. She wanted to be left alone to study her "higher summons", although the actual reason is much more complex.

Adie's home was destroyed when the bones of a skrin came to life. Adie and Zedd later returned and destroyed the remains of the house in order to keep the bones from reaching the wrong hands.

Adie is a long-time friend of Chase. She is now also good friends with Richard and especially Zedd. In fact Adie soon becomes one of Richard most trusted allies in the war against the Imperial Order.

When Adie was a young woman she travelled to the Old World and studied with the Sisters of the Light. She also travelled the Midlands and learnt a great deal about her gift of magic from other sorceresses and soon learnt of how rare her strength of power was.

[edit] Known Powers

• The ability to see with her gift, despite being blind.
• The ability to be in the rain without getting wet.
• The ability to know of the occurrence of some past events even though she was not present.
• The ability to sometimes determine whether someone has knowledge of something or not.
• The ability to fill the head of someone with their own memory of a past event simply by a touch of her finger.
• By using a bone rattle and chanting for about 10 or 15 minutes she can briefly awaken one who has been struck down by underworld beasts, although they can't speak and don't know where they are.
• By rubbing her hand in a slow circle over someone's stomach she can detect the nature of the anger within someone and how it will manifest itself.
• The ability to survive and endure (and with her powers, cause) great trauma
• The ability to learn the fears of anyone,the secrets spill form their mouth against their will. The power cannot uncover anything but fears.
• The ability to create shields of magic to protect herself or another.
• The ability to create lightning or other blasts of light and fire that create extreme damage to her surroundings or death to those she aims at.
• The ability to stop or explode someones heart.
• As she is one of the most powerful sorceresses she is able to even send another sorceresses' magic back at them to destroy them, as she did to a Sister of the Light in the Confessors Palace.
• She can create a certain spell thats magic is embedded inside the victim, if it fails to kill on impact, that must be removed quickly and will almost certainly kill some of those gifted that heal the victim or the victim themselves.
• The ability to create the illusion of being someone else.