Forbidding

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The Forbidding is an alternate dimension contained within the Shannara series of books by Terry Brooks. It runs parallel to the dimension in which all of the races live, the Four Lands. Also, the layout of the land is almost identical, although locations are given similar names [eg. Dragon's Teeth, Dragon Line]. The Forbidding contains all of the Demons of the world, which were trapped there by the Elves many years before the start of the Shannara books. Within Arborlon, the Elven capital, resides the Ellcrys, an Elf who has willingly given her life to serve in tree form, protecting and guarding the barrier between the Forbidding and the world of humanity.