Aydindril

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Aydindril is a fictional location in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

[edit] Description

Aydindril is a town in the center of the Midlands and was the home of the confessors, the wizards, and the Central Council of the Midlands. It is also the location of the Wizard's Keep, the home of the First Wizard. It is a beautiful place. Many of the side streets are narrow with tightly packed buildings and tiny courtyards. The streets were always teeming with people, especially the market streets.

The Home Guard of Aydindril kept the city safe, and patrolled the Wizard's Keep as well. They wore breastplates or chain-mail covered with red tunics banded around their edges in black. They were heavily armed with swords or battle-axes, as well as knives, and many additionally carried pikes tipped with winged and barbed steel.

[edit] History

Before the war with Darken Rahl, no one held claim to Aydindril. No ruler would dare to lay claim to it; they all feared it, feared the Confessors and the wizards. All the lands of the Midlands contributed to the support of Aydindril, all paid tribute.

Aydindril fell to the might of D'Hara and Darken Rahl shortly after the boundary between D'Hara and the Midlands went down. The D'Haran troops were everywhere in the city, but at the cost of many lives, on both sides of the battle. After the death of Darken Rahl, the D'Haran troops had no leader, no guidance. After the recognition of Richard Rahl as the lord of D'Hara, the city of Aydindril reverted back to D'Haran rule.