What is the importance of names in the novel, Wizard’s First Rule?

Names carry special significance. The author often imbues names of creatures or characters with special meaning, as when he names Darken Rahl, a name that evokes images of a "dark ruler" or "evil king." In another example, the sadistic Denna is named a Mord-Sith. Mord evokes the word mortal, meaning death or deadly. In the Star Wars universe, a sith is an evil creature. The word also echoes the hiss of a snake, another symbol for evil. The Mord-Sith is truly a creature that brings the most "evil death" through torture.