The Wards of Faerie is a fantasy novel by Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks

Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print...

 set to be released in August 2012 as the first part of the Legacy of Shannara

Legacy of Shannara

Legacy of Shannara is the title of a series of novels written by Terry Brooks. The first book, The Wards of Faerie, will released by Del Rey Books in August 2012...

 trilogy. Set a century after Straken

Straken

Straken is the third book in the High Druid of Shannara trilogy of Terry Brooks' Shannara series. First published in 2005, it takes place immediately after the events of Tanequil...

, it chronicles the attempts of Ard Rhys of Paranor Khyber Elessedil as he 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.

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The book will also include interior color artwork, a map of the Four Lands

The Four Lands

The Four Lands is the fictional world where Terry Brooks' Shannara series is set. The Genesis of Shannara trilogy reveals the Four Lands to be located in the modern Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada. Much of the landscape has been changed from a future holocaust, but some...

 and surrounding regions along with detailed schematics of Paranor

Paranor

Paranor is a fictional location in Terry Brooks' epic fantasy Shannara series. It is the home of the Druids, but it has fallen to enemies of the Druids several times since its initial construction...

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