The Wards of Faerie

The Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks set to be released in August 2012 as the first part of the Legacy of Shannara trilogy. Set a century after Straken, it chronicles the attempts of Ard Rhys of Paranor Khyber Elessedil as she tries to recover the lost Elfstones.

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The Wards of Faerie, Book I in the Legacy of Shannara series, will be published in August 2012. It is the story set 100 years after the events of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, where the people of the Four Lands have become largely distrusting of magic after the failed Third Council of Druids. But when a Druid stumbles upon information that might lead to the re-discovery of the lost Elfstones of Faerie, Ard Rhys of Paranor Khyber Elessedil must decide to undertake the most dangerous of missions to acquire them—at all costs.^[1]

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The book will also include interior color artwork, a map of the Four Lands and surrounding regions along with detailed schematics of Paranor.^[2]

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