Skull Bearers

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The Skull Bearers are a fictional organization from the Shannara series.

They were once Druids who were subverted by the Ildatch alongside Brona, the Warlock Lord. Later becoming monsters who flew through the air, they originally took their name from silver Skull-shaped pendants that they wore as generals during the First War of the Races. Serving as scouts and emissaries for the Warlock Lord, the winged Skull Bearers proved hazardous to the Druid Bremen and his companions. They were all banished along with Brona when Jerle Shannara used the Sword of Shannara.

500 years later, the Skull Bearers returned, several of them hunting Shea Ohmsford and Allanon. However, the Skull Bearers proved unable to defeat the heroes, despite pitched battles with Allanon in the furnace of Paranor and with Keltset and Panamon Creel in the fields of Streleheim. The Skull Bearers were destroyed when Brona fell to the Sword of Shannara.

The Skull Bearers had the appearance of beings in black cloaks, and also had wings and claws. Their most common attack methods were these physical weapons, as well as red bolts from their eyes and green fire from their hands.