Unlike the first Ellcrys quest Brooks wrote about in The Elfstones of Shannara, the one in Dark Legacy features a far heavier focus on the sacrifice required to save the tree. Grianne herself also returns in Dark Legacy but in a darker incarnation, making this the third trilogy she appears in after The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara and High Druid.Īnother clear example of a darker spin on an older tale is the quest of a princess from the House of Elessedil to restore the Ellcrys. An obvious example of this is a return to the Forbidding, the realm of the Demons and the Straken Lord Tael Riverine this world was last visited in the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, but this time the Forbidding has far more dire consequences for the characters involved than it did for Grianne Ohmsford in High Druid. In keeping with the name, The Dark Legacy of Shannara treads familiar ground by intentionally repurposing plot elements from earlier novels but with a look at the “darker” side of those plot elements. Set about a century after the events of the High Druid of Shannara trilogy, the series focuses on the adventures of the twin brothers Railing and Redden Ohmsford and their quest to help Khyber Elessedil, the Ard Rhys of the fourth Druid Order, recover four missing sets of Elfstones that the Elves had lost during the Age of Faerie. The Dark Legacy of Shannara is a trilogy of Shannara novels by Terry Brooks.
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