Later, the three are joined by Mareth, an apprentice Druid with innate magic, as well as empathic powers.

Along with Tay Trefenwyd and Risca, who are the only Druids who believe Bremen and leave with him, Bremen leaves Paranor.

As a result, the council didn't trust him. Bremen had been cast from the Druid Council because he had an interest in magic, now forbidden since the disaster that turned the Druid Brona into the Warlock Lord. The only survivors are the followers of Bremen, an outcast Druid who continued to study the mystic arts and tried to warn the council before it was too late. Brona's first target is Paranor, the home of the Druids who defeated him during the First War of the Races. He is now stronger than ever, gathering spirits from the netherworld and a massive Troll and Gnome army under his banner. But he had secretly survived, and now has come to make a new war upon the Races. Horrified by the consequences of the First War of the Races, most of the Druids at Paranor stopped studying the arcane arts and turned to the sciences of the Old World.īrona, now known as the Warlock Lord, had been behind the First War of the Races, and was thought to have died during it. First King of Shannara is a 1996 epic fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks.

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