Cara Mason

Character
Name:	Cara
Occupation:	Mord-Sith
Relationships:	Dahlia/Cara, Leo Dane/Cara
Fandom:	Legend of the Seeker
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Cara Mason is a main character in Legend of the Seeker in Season 2 and first appears in S1E22 "Reckoning."

Cara in Canon

Cara is one of the feared order of women known as Mord-Sith, a faction controlled to serve the House of Rahl with undying and unflinching loyalty. In Season 1 when Mistress Denna fails to break and train Richard Cypher, Cara is personally selected by Darken Rahl to intercept Richard and Kahlan's attempt to use the Boxes of Orden and secure Rahl's possession of the great, magical power once and for all. After her Mord-Sith magic throws both her and Richard far into the future where Darken Rahl has won, When Cara sees the disastrous future will come to pass if she kills Richard and lets Darken Rahl win, Cara is convinced to ally herself with the Seeker and change the course of history. After Cara betrays Darken Rahl and allows Richard to kill him, she returns with her Sisters of the Agiel to make a better life for the Mord-Sith.

In S2E1 "Marked," after attempting to gain power over her Sisters of the Agiel, Cara is beaten, her Mord-Sith braid is cut, and she is left to die in shame. Cara is found by allies of Richard and he vouches for her value within the group. Cara begins Season 2 as a hardened Mord-Sith whose only tie to the group is her loyalty to Richard as the new Lord Rahl. Cara immediately clashes with Kahlan Amnell, the Confessor believing that Cara will betray them and Cara doing little to stop antagonizing her. Cara reveals in S2E3 "Broken" that she was responsible for killing Kahlan's sister (Denee) and her infant nephew, forcing Richard to kick her out of the group for her own safety after Kahlan's anger towards Cara invokes the Con Dar. When Cara gets captured and placed on trial on behalf of all Mord-Sith who have wronged her hometown of Stowecroft, Kahlan is forced to be the council's Confessor, and Richard plays the lawyer who defends Cara's actions. Throughout this episode while Richard believes that Cara did not have a choice in becoming a Mord-Sith, citing his own experience of being trained by Denna, Cara is generally combative, has little care for self-preservation, and defends being a Mord-Sith. At the end of the episode, Kahlan is about to execute Cara by confession but sees that Cara is remorseful and decides to spare her.

After this episode Cara begins to markedly soften, and so begins her redemption as a Mord-Sith. Cara removes her corset and her neckpiece to her leather suit, symbolizing her transformation from Lord Rahl's Mord-Sith to a new kind of Mord-Sith. Although often begrudgingly, Cara conforms to the whims of the protagonist-heavy group. Cara eventually befriends Kahlan even though they are magically predisposed to be enemies, stating in S2E16 "Desecrated" that she considered Kahlan a friend, then embraces her. Cara's relationship with Richard stays predominantly the same throughout the season, and she appears to be slightly closer and more trusting of Zedd later on in the season.

Cara is canonically bisexual, with her first appearance in S1E22 "Reckoning" featuring a sexually suggestive tease regarding warmth under blankets aimed at Richard Cypher. In S2E20 "Eternity" she has sex with her old lover Dahlia, and earlier in Season 2 has a relationship with Leo Dane. Cara's bisexuality is not played as a joke, nor do any of the characters objectify her because of her bisexuality. No in-universe or metatextually-framed homophobia or biphobia canonically or sub textually exists in Legend of the Seeker, however Cara's interaction with Dahlia in "Eternity" is the only on-screen, confirmed queer representation the show offers.

Cara in Fandom

In fanfiction Cara is often paired with Kahlan, Richard, Dahlia, and Darken Rahl, although in recent years the fandom has turned predominantly to Kahlan/Cara as the main ship.

Fanworks

Fanfiction

• The World Not Reeling by lmPerrin
• Confession, and Other Trouble a Mord'Sith Can Get Into by hibernate

Resources

• Cara Mason works on Archive of Our Own
• Cara Mason on Legend of The Seeker Wiki