![]() ![]() He can only be defeated with the Sword of Shannara, which has, as luck would have it, been broken and rendered unusable. In the game, you play as Jak Ohmsford, son of Shea Ohmsford and hero of the first novel, who learns of the return of the Warlock Lord Brona, commander of the undead. It’s technically an original story, although it functions as a sequel to The Sword of Shannara, the very first book, a copy of which was bundled along with the packaging. Legend Entertainment, fond of creating graphic adventures based on books, developed their own entry into the series, simply dubbed Shannara. Anyway, stay young at heart and enjoy the show.Terry Brooks’ Shannara series is one of the most prolific of modern fantasy novels, consisting of over twenty entries over the course of nearly thirty years. Consider that it is targeted towards teenagers, and I am sure I myself would have enjoyed it more if I would have still been a teenager. At first, there was no mention, then there were some hints that it may be a world similar to ours with tubes underground (subways), and then progressing to more or less explicitly stating that is indeed our world. I read the first series of books as teenager in the 90s, and the hints that the Shannara world is indeed our world progressed from nothing to obvious. The opening sequence shows skyscrapers being burned by a nuclear blast, and there are scattered pointers within the show, such as car wrecks etc, such definitely confirm this. ![]() The show very clearly show that this is indeed our world sometime in the future. So this shouldnt be considered as spoilers. The show is now well into its first season with the 4th episode just released. Across the Blue Divide is the land of Parkasia - modern day Asia.There is a vast ocean (called the Blue Divide), also to the west, that is almost certainly the Pacific Ocean.There is a volcanic region, Morrowindl, found the west of the Four Lands, which Terry Brooks has basically admitted is Hawaii (which must have moved quite a ways North during the cataclysm). ![]() It's not clear just how badly the geography is messed up, but there are some hints about familiar places: The majority of the novels take place in the Pacific Northwest (this is made clear in the Genesis series - they're in the Columbia River basin) which will eventually become known as the Four Lands. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series takes place about 450 years after The Sword of Shannara in the novel Antrax, one of the few remaining Druids rediscovers a bunker containing a bunch of "old world" technology left over from the war, including what is obvious an AI. It's still a transitional period - I don't think the Druids have emerged yet, for example, but it's clearly the beginnings of what would eventually become that world. The most recent series, the Legends of Shannara, picks up ~500 years later, with the refugees emerging into the world. What's left of the human and Faerie population eventually find refuge to wait out the ongoing destruction. This causes the creatures of Faerie to emerge from hiding, including the Elves and their Elfstones. At this point, the Demons of the Void are trying to bring about a world-wide apocalypse. In that series, several characters from the Word and Void novels either appeared or were mentioned. However, in 2006, the Genesis of Shannara series was published, picks up about a hundred years after the final book in the Word and Void series (putting it right around 2100 on our calendar). Those novels were published in the late 1990s, much later than the original Shannara books, and don't seem to have anything in common with the Shannara world. However, with the most recent publication of the Genesis of Shannara series, it becomes clear that Shannara is our world, after a terrible apocalypse.Ĭhronologically, the story begins with the series Word and Void novels, which take place in the midwestern United States in more-or-less present day. When originally published, the Sword of Shannara and it's sequels appeared to take place in a completely fictional world. ![]() (And you see the entire thing unfold, sort-of.) This is a massive spoiler for at least 4 different series of novels, so you might want to stop reading after this, but: yes. ![]()
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