uhmmm perhaps you are right but I think that Goodkind put his own convinctions in Richard and put what he thinks wrong in the Order.....
" I'm the one of the prophecies. I AM Fuer Grissa OSt Drauka. I'm the true Seeker of Truth because I'm the only one who could make the blade become white. I'm Lord Rahl and I'm searching my Mother Confessor......."