Stee Jans

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Stee Jans is a character from The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks. He is the leader of the legendary Free Corps, the shock unit of the Border Legion.

[edit] Biography

Stee Jans is known as the "Iron Man". He gained this reputation from being the only survivor of a group of 20-odd soldiers faced by an army of Gnomes. His reputation carried him to the battle against the Demons, alongside Allanon, Eventine Elessedil, Ander Elessedil, and the Elven and Troll armies assembled behind them. With the death of Elven commander Kael Pindanon, Ander appointed Jans commander of the assembled army.

Stee Jans was one of the few members of the Free Corps to survive the War of the Forbidding. It is unknown if the Free Corps were reassembled before the Border Legion was disbanded, but before his departure, Jans was offered a command in the Elven army by Ander Elessedil, now King of the Elves. Whether he accepted the command or remained with the Legion is unknown, but no known trace of his bloodline remains 300 years later when the Four Lands are threatened by the Shadowen. However, there are rumors that Stee Jans later changed his identity, becoming a similar seemingly invincible warrior known as Garet Jax.