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****This book has about the same story as all the other Shannara books but it takes place Before all the other ones.****** After the first war of the races, man became an outcast and was forced to run into the deep southland. At Paranor (the home of the Druids) A ....

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.... lets her come with them. He decides to go to the Hadeshorn, a lake that lets the druids of the past come out to speak with them. So, Bremen talks to the first Druid named Galaphile Elessidel. He shows him four visions of what they have to do. One of Paranor destroyed and the Druids all dead, another of a fortress in the westland with the black elfstone in it, another of a man facing Brona in Mortal Combat with a great magical sword, and another of Bremen standing next to the Hadeshorn with a boy with funny eyes. Will Tay Trefenwyd suceed in his charge to find the Black Elfstone? Will Risca tell the Dwarves of the Warlocks coming and sucessfully mak ....