Pen and Aphasia meet in one last confrontation in which the assassin is killed by the Tanequil, but as Pen leaves the island, he finds the rest of his party taken hostage by the enemy Druid traitors. However, two of his fingers, as well as Cinnaminson, are taken in exchange. From the Tanequil, Pen receives the enchanted wooden "darkwand," a talisman that can aid him in saving his aunt. Pen and his friends find allies among the Troll people, led by Kermadec and his semi-estranged brother Atalan, who aid them in locating the mystical Tanequil tree on a ravine-surrounded island. However, Bek and Rue are captured and unwillingly give Pen's position away. The senior Ohmsfords recognize the deception and lies that the Druids have been telling them, so Bek attempts to locate Pen by using the magical scrye waters in the depths of Paranor.
Meanwhile, the traitourous Druids find Pen's parents, Bek and Rue, and they agree to go back to Paranor to help to try to find their son Pen. For in her unearthly prison, the Ard Rhys faces a demonic plight too hideous to countenance.Pen, Khyber, and company rescue Cinnaminson and continue their journey north, pursued continuously by traitorous Druids and the assassin Aphasia Wye. It also means striking a bargain more dire than Pen could ever imagine. That means journeying into the Inkrim-a dreaded region thick with shadows and haunted by harrowing legends. To breach the Forbidding and bring Grianne back to the natural world means finding the fabled Tanequil.
Shadea's airship-borne minions and the relentless assassin under her command continue their fierce pursuit of Pen and his comrades.Eluding death is only half the battle for Pen. But it could all be undone if Grianne's young nephew, Penderrin, succeeds in his frantic quest to rescue her. And now Grianne languishes in the fearsome and inescapable netherworld called the Forbidding.Their bloodless coup a success, the corrupt pair, and their confederates within the Druid Council, seeks to make their dominion over the Four Lands absolute-with the aid of a devastating new weapon. for it was they who engineered it, by means of dark magic. Only Shadea and her catspaw-the treacherous Prime Minister Sen Dunsidan-know the secret fate of the true Ard Rhys. Through it all, Terry Brooks orchestrates the action with the flawless hand of a master mythmaker- fashioning another exquisite link in his chain of bestselling epics.Loyal to none but herself and lethal even to those closest to her, Shadea a'Ru now holds sway as High Druid of Paranor-her ascension to power all but unchallenged in the wake of Grianne Ohmsford's sudden, mysterious vanishing. Alliances are made, trusts are betrayed, and prices are paid. Events that began in Jarka Ruus, Book One of High Druid of Shannara, come swiftly to a head in this second thrilling volume.
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