Indomitable: The Epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks Page A
Authors: Terry Brooks
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SHANNARA:
T HE S CIONS OF S HANNARA (1990)
T HE D RUID OF S HANNARA (1991)
T HE E LF Q UEEN OF S HANNARA (1992)
T HE T ALISMANS OF S HANNARA (1993)
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F IRST K ING OF S HANNARA (1996)
THE VOYAGE OF THE
JERLE SHANNARA
:
I LSE W ITCH (2000)
A NTRAX (2001)
M ORGAWR (2002)
HIGH DRUID OF SHANNARA:
J ARKA R UUS (2003)
T ANEQUIL (forthcoming)
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The time of the Shannara follows in the wake of an apocalypse that has destroyed the old world and very nearly annihilated its people as well. A thousand years of savagery and barbarism have concluded at the start of the series with the emergence of a new civilization in which magic has replaced science as the dominant source of power. A Druid Council comprised of the most talented of the new racesâMen, Dwarves, Trolls, Gnomes, and Elves, names taken from the old legendsâhas begun the arduous task of rebuilding the world and putting an end to the racial warfare that has consumed the survivors of the so-called Great Wars since their conclusion.
But the wars continue, albeit in a different form. Magic, like science, is often mercurial, can be used for good or evil, and can have a positive or negative effect on those who come in contact with it. In
The Sword of Shannara
, a Druid subverted by his craving for magicâs power manipulated Trolls and Gnomes in his effort to gain mastery over the other races. He failed because of Shea Ohmsford, the last of an Elven family with the Shannara surname. Shea, with the help of his brother and a small band of companions, was able to wield the fabled Sword of Shannara to destroy the Dark Lord.
Subsequently, in
The Elfstones of Shannara
, his grandson Wil was faced with another sort of challenge, one that required the use of a magic contained in a set of Elfstones. But use of the Stones altered Wilâs genetic makeup, so that his own children were born with magic in their blood. As a result, in the third book of the series,
The Wishsong of Shannara
, Brin and her brother Jair were recruited by the Druid Allanon to seek out and destroy the Ildatch, the book of dark magic that had subverted the Warlock Lord and was now doing the same with the Mord Wraiths.
The story that follows takes place several years after the conclusion of
The Wishsong
and again features Jair Ohmsford, who must come to terms with his obsession with the past and his use of magic that his sister has warned him not to trust.
INDOMITABLE
TERRY BROOKS
The past is always with us.
Even though he was only just of an age to be considered a man, Jair Ohmsford had understood the meaning of the phrase since he was a boy. It meant that he would be shaped and reshaped by the events of his life, so that everything that happened would be in some way a consequence of what had gone before. It meant that the people he came to know would influence his conduct and his beliefs. It meant that his experiences of the past would impact his decisions of the future.
It meant that life was like a chain and the links that forged it could not be severed.
For Jair, the strongest of those links was to Garet Jax. That link, unlike any other, was a repository for memories he treasured so dearly that he protected them like glass ornaments, to be taken down from the shelf on which they were kept, polished, and then put away again with great care.
In the summer of the second year following his return from Graymark, he was still heavily under the influence of those memories. He woke often in the middle of the night from dreams of Garet Jax locked in battle with the Jachyra, heard echoes of the otherâs voice in conversations with his friends and neighbors, and caught sudden glimpses of the Weapons Master in the faces of strangers. He was not distressed by these occurrences; he was thrilled by them. They were an affirmation that he was keeping alive the past he cared so much about.
On the day the girl rode into Shady Vale, he was working at the
T HE S CIONS OF S HANNARA (1990)
T HE D RUID OF S HANNARA (1991)
T HE E LF Q UEEN OF S HANNARA (1992)
T HE T ALISMANS OF S HANNARA (1993)
  Â
F IRST K ING OF S HANNARA (1996)
THE VOYAGE OF THE
JERLE SHANNARA
:
I LSE W ITCH (2000)
A NTRAX (2001)
M ORGAWR (2002)
HIGH DRUID OF SHANNARA:
J ARKA R UUS (2003)
T ANEQUIL (forthcoming)
  Â
  Â
The time of the Shannara follows in the wake of an apocalypse that has destroyed the old world and very nearly annihilated its people as well. A thousand years of savagery and barbarism have concluded at the start of the series with the emergence of a new civilization in which magic has replaced science as the dominant source of power. A Druid Council comprised of the most talented of the new racesâMen, Dwarves, Trolls, Gnomes, and Elves, names taken from the old legendsâhas begun the arduous task of rebuilding the world and putting an end to the racial warfare that has consumed the survivors of the so-called Great Wars since their conclusion.
But the wars continue, albeit in a different form. Magic, like science, is often mercurial, can be used for good or evil, and can have a positive or negative effect on those who come in contact with it. In
The Sword of Shannara
, a Druid subverted by his craving for magicâs power manipulated Trolls and Gnomes in his effort to gain mastery over the other races. He failed because of Shea Ohmsford, the last of an Elven family with the Shannara surname. Shea, with the help of his brother and a small band of companions, was able to wield the fabled Sword of Shannara to destroy the Dark Lord.
Subsequently, in
The Elfstones of Shannara
, his grandson Wil was faced with another sort of challenge, one that required the use of a magic contained in a set of Elfstones. But use of the Stones altered Wilâs genetic makeup, so that his own children were born with magic in their blood. As a result, in the third book of the series,
The Wishsong of Shannara
, Brin and her brother Jair were recruited by the Druid Allanon to seek out and destroy the Ildatch, the book of dark magic that had subverted the Warlock Lord and was now doing the same with the Mord Wraiths.
The story that follows takes place several years after the conclusion of
The Wishsong
and again features Jair Ohmsford, who must come to terms with his obsession with the past and his use of magic that his sister has warned him not to trust.
INDOMITABLE
TERRY BROOKS
The past is always with us.
Even though he was only just of an age to be considered a man, Jair Ohmsford had understood the meaning of the phrase since he was a boy. It meant that he would be shaped and reshaped by the events of his life, so that everything that happened would be in some way a consequence of what had gone before. It meant that the people he came to know would influence his conduct and his beliefs. It meant that his experiences of the past would impact his decisions of the future.
It meant that life was like a chain and the links that forged it could not be severed.
For Jair, the strongest of those links was to Garet Jax. That link, unlike any other, was a repository for memories he treasured so dearly that he protected them like glass ornaments, to be taken down from the shelf on which they were kept, polished, and then put away again with great care.
In the summer of the second year following his return from Graymark, he was still heavily under the influence of those memories. He woke often in the middle of the night from dreams of Garet Jax locked in battle with the Jachyra, heard echoes of the otherâs voice in conversations with his friends and neighbors, and caught sudden glimpses of the Weapons Master in the faces of strangers. He was not distressed by these occurrences; he was thrilled by them. They were an affirmation that he was keeping alive the past he cared so much about.
On the day the girl rode into Shady Vale, he was working at the
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