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Title First King of Shannara

1997 paperback edition cover
Author	Terry Brooks
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Prequel to The Original Shannara Trilogy
Genre(s)	High fantasy
Publisher	Del Rey Books
Released	19 March 1996
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages	489 pp (hardcover) 448 pp (paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 0-345-39652-9
Preceded by	Untitled Third Pre-Shannara Novel
Followed by	The Sword of Shannara

The First King of Shannara, a 1996 novel by Terry Brooks, is a prequel to Brooks' The Sword of Shannara, set during the Second War of the Races. Many famous characters from the series, and their ancestors, appear in this story.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Main Characters 3 Other Characters 4 External link

Horrified by the consequences of the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor have stopped studying the arcane arts and have turned to the sciences of the Old World.

But Brona, now the Warlock Lord, thought to have died in the First War of the Races, has come to make a new war on the Races. He is now stronger than ever, gathering spirits from the netherworld and a massive Troll army under his banner. Brona's first target is Paranorhttp://en.wikipedia.org../../../p/a/r/Paranor.html, the home of the Druids who defeated him during the First War of the Races. He easily wipes out the Druid order. The only survivors are the followers of Bremen, an outcast Druid who continued to study the mystic arts and tried to warn the council before it was too late. Needless to say, his caveat went unheeded. Bremen had been cast from the Druid Council because he had an interest in magic, now forbidden since the disaster that turned the Druid Brona into the Warlock Lord. As a result, the council simply didn't trust him. Bremen knows that only magic can fight magic, so he devises a plan to create a magical weapon to destroy the Warlock Lord: the Sword of Shannara. The Sword is created by truth of existence, the only thing remaining to the shades of former Druids. The Warlock Lord never could face the truth that he had died centuries before, and the Sword would force that truth on him. Armed with truth, Bremen leads the battle in the Westland. He equips Jerle Shannara, the Elven King, with the Sword. Jerle confronts the Warlock Lord, and succeeds in driving him into hiding, but he fails to destroy him. To properly wield the talisman of truth, one must first be prepared to face the truth of his own life. Jerle simply could not reconcile the guilt he felt at his best friend's death, and so he lacked the ability to force truth on Brona.

• Allanon
• Bremen
• Brona
• The Druids
• Jerle Shannara
• Kinson Ravenlock
• Mareth
• Risca
• Tay Trefenwyd

Alyten Ballindarroch Arken Screl Arn Banda Ashes Athabasca Caerid Lock Cogline Cormorant Etrurian Courtann Ballindarroch Fleer Geften

Kahle Rese Kier Joplin King of the Silver River Kira Mina Screl Obann Preia Starle Prekkian Raybur Retten Kipp

Risk Rusk Rustin Apt Shade of Galaphile Shifter Smoke Trewithen Urprox Screl Vree Erreden Wyrick

• Del Rey Online | First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks

v • d • e Novels of Terry Brooks’ Shannara universe
	Book I	Book II	Book III	Book IV
Word/Void:	Running with the Demon	A Knight of the Word	Angel Fire East
The Genesis of Shannara:	Armageddon's Children	The Elves of Cintra	Untitled
Prequel to Shannara:	First King of Shannara
The Original Shannara Trilogy:	The Sword of Shannara	The Elfstones of Shannara	The Wishsong of Shannara
The Heritage of Shannara:	The Scions of Shannara	The Druid of Shannara	The Elf Queen of Shannara	The Talismans of Shannara
The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara:	Ilse Witch	Antrax	Morgawr
High Druid of Shannara:	Jarka Ruus	Tanequil	Straken
Other Shannara products
The World of Shannara		Shannara PC Game
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