https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannara_(video_game)

This is set between Sword and Elfstones, featuring both existing and original characters. Most notably the son of Shea / father of Wil, Jak Ohmsford.

It (mostly) doesn't contradict anything in the books, yet is never mentioned on this wiki, not even in-passing e.g. at https://shannara.fandom.com/wiki/Shannara#Adaptation

Is it banned for some reason, or does simply nobody know about it?

I get very confused with this site. I'll browse, and some book characters (Sword) have fleshed out entries, some have nothing. Then I'll click a link (Shae, Wil, Flick, Alannon, etc) for a character who is also in the show, and the site seems to transform. The page will only have information about the show characters. So, is this a wiki for the book or show?

Example: Shea (However you spell it) page is the most lacking thing I've ever seen. It's basically this:

"Shea is the father of Wil, who is super famous and does all this stuff. Wil is cool. Oh right, Shea destroyed the warlock lord too. But no one cares".

No mention of Menion, the fellowship, travels with the crew, the hall of kings, using the elfstones at all. What gives?

Or is this wiki just dead/show obsessed.

I've wanted to see this series since in came out but unfort I never had the chance until recently.  I just binged the first season and I am just amazed.  What a wonderful job! I'm disapointed it only lasted the 2 seasons but with the networks it was on I'm not surprised.  Something has stuck with me with the triangle of the 3 of them and I happened to come across on YouTube video that made perfect sense.  Eretria and Amberle remind me so much of Clexa of The 100.  Do these two have a ship name or is it just Princess Rover? lol  I'm almost afraid to watch the second season for it to 'end' but I've been looking into getting the books as well.  Sooo much possibilities, Terry did an amazing job with this series, it's not just a story its a complete world.

I'm having a hard time deciding whether Riga counts as a main villain of Season 2. The Warlock Lord certainly does, as the new leader of the forces of evil. Though he's dead until Episode 7, and Bandon is in charge, but Bandon's goal is to revive him.

But through the demonic threats of Bandon and the Warlock Lord, Riga is just as much a threat to the main characters, while not being affiliated with the demonic forces (hating all magic users), and brings about the most gruesome moment of the show when he's draining Wil's blood.

Though, he dies two episodes before the Warlock Lord. But then, the Warlock Lord is only alive for four episodes.

So, would you consider both the Warlock Lord and Riga main villains of Season 2, or just the Warlock Lord, and Riga as secondary?

I first found out about it through a commercial while I was watching Season 13 of Supernatural. I read it got terrible reviews, but they really didn't do it justice IMO and it's insulting to compare it to Twilight. (Besides, it's less soap opera-y than Once Upon A Time or Charmed) Because my brother convinced me to try it out anyway and I thought it was really good.

I suppose the two biggest complaints people had, other than comparing it to Twilight, are:

1.) Deviating from the book. Which, is quite understandable for anyone who has read the books, which I haven't. But I think it was better than Eragon. (Question, did the books have it set in a post-apocalyptic Earth, or was that original to the series? If the latter, then I can understand the rage there to people who really enjoyed the books)

2.) Being too much like Lord of the Rings. Like how people hated Winx Club or Glitter Force for being too much like Sailor Moon. That kind of thing doesn't bother me, and I read the books were pretty much like that as well. A difference is that in Shannara, the elves are no more powerful than the humans, and both can use magic if they're Druids. Also, in Lord of the Rings elves always have long hair and no beards, while they can have basically any appearance in Shannara as long as they have pointy ears.

Now for the actual review.

It is exactly what I was looking for, much like the anime Inuyasha which I got into last year. Unlike Inuyasha it's not overly long, a decent length at 10 episodes a season, not too long to watch all of, while still longer than a movie. With battles to the death against forces of evil, some pretty cool special effects, and a story that's always interesting and pretty easy to follow.

I also like the unique concept of it being a sort of medieval style fantasy universe like Lord of the Rings, but set in the future of our Earth with ruins of cars, San Francisco, etc.

Also gains points for irony that John Rhys-Davies plays an elf when he played the dwarf, Gimli, in Lord of the Rings. (On that note, the opening sequence mentions dwarves, but we never see them, just humans, gnomes, trolls, demons, and elves, and on that note, why didn't it mention elves there?)

Wil seemed a little stupid at first, allowing Eretria to trick him a second time, but he seemed to get smarter afterwards.

And, I always like shows which have a different main villain each season, though they still end in a new cliffhanger, which I'm sure will conclude in Season 3 for the original trilogy of the books, but at least the Dagda Mor and the Warlock Lord get a climactic defeat at the end, though the Dagda Mor didn't really do much, he's like the Sauron of the series, except easier to kill. Riga's death was pretty satisfying too.

On that note, though the reviews have said it's more for teens than adults, I'd rate it more mature than that because there is quite a bit of gore. Of particular note, Eretria opening the blood fire by draining the blood from her hand and almost dying of blood loss, and, harder for me to watch, Riga draining Wil's blood, even though I can easily watch something similar in Saw V and might be able to watch this scene with practice.

Also, it's too bad my favorite character, Allanon, won't be in Season 3 on account of his death in Season 2. Unless he gets revived somehow.

As for the "nudity" scenes, which I dislike, at least they're not explicit like in Game of Thrones or Spartacus, so they don't bother me TOO much, though that waterfall scene with Amberle was unnecessary. But, I suppose some people are into that and they want to appeal in any way they can.

Also, when the changeling seemingly died the first time but survived, I was reminded of Chrysalis in MLP (a villain I want dead so badly for something horrible she did, and also a changeling), how she fell off a mountain in Season 2, and was right on top of her throne when it exploded in Season 6, and survived both. At least it got killed off for real, where she probably never will, unlike King Sombra and the Storm King.

4/5

There is a song in episode 7of season 2 where Will is about to go to the tree and he speak to Mareth . Anyone found the name of it ? 

Hi, everyone.

On my first reading of "A Knight of the Word" for a while I thought it was set in year 1954 - two years to summer Olympics in Melbourne. I was astonished finding there cell phones, computers, microwaves, Bill Gates and Microsoft.

I learned that world of Nest Freemark differs from real world: Hopewell, Illinois is on the place of Sterling, Illinois; I think San Sobel, California is on the place of San Jose, California; Kingdome in Seattle, Washington wasn't demolished in the year 2000 and 2701 Second Avenue is on the other end of Second Avenue then in reality; summer Olympics 2004 were held in Melbourne (real - in Athens) and 2016 - in St. Petersburg (real -  in Rio); weekdays given in any of the three books are not compatible with real and with each other.

So it is risky to deduce any timing from corresponding events in the real world, say Chicago riots mentioned in "Angel Fire East" or "Pirates of Carribean" mentioned in "A Knight of the Word".

Yet...

I think that ten years between "A Knight of the Word" and "Angel Fire East" and age 29 of Nest Freemark in the last book are obtained by rounding up, since events of main narration happen in the last tenday of December.

First: in chapter 4, on December 21 Nest muses about winter solstice TOMORROW, December 22. Winter Solstices mostly happen December 21, each next almost six hours later, so in three to four years they pass to December 22; but next is a leap year with one day more before December, so next solistice is back in December 21. In the year 2012 (leap year!) winter solstice was December 21, 11:12 UT. But in the year 2011 winter solstice was December 22, 5:30 UT.

Second, few pages further: Nest recollects events of her last Olympics THREE years ago. Either these were held in the year 2009 or "now" (for Nest) is 2011.

Third, few more pages further: call from the editor of sports magazine month ago (November). Unnamed caller states that next Olympics will be NEXT SUMMER; next summer, not last summer. So either the next summer Olympics would be in the year 2013 or this is the year 2011.

Fourth, in chapter 5 is more complicated: it depends on Thanksgiving. Real Thanksgiving was: Thursday, November 24 in 2011, Thursday, November 22 in 2012 while Nest Freemark had Thansgiving in Thursday, November 27, since December 21 is Sunday. John Ross captured gypsy morph three days after: Sunday in each case, November 27 in real 2011, November 25 in real 2012 and November 30 in Nest case. Findo Gask rehashes what happened next: eighteen days of chase - till December 15 in real 2011, till December 13 in real 2012 and till December 17 in the Nest's year. Then ten days before Christmas - December 15 in all cases - catch-up in Salt Lake City. It is inconsistent with real 2012 and even more with Nest's year, but - surprise! - it is consistent with real 2011.

So when in chapter 2 Larry Spence spoke of Olympics in St. Petersburg four years, he was rounding down from four year and half.

Hope it wasn't very boring.

MSz

will ohmsford seems to be one of the least significant of the shannara's from the books. Why is it that the whole tv series is based on him?

In the Heritage books, specifically Elf Queen, Eowen tells Wren of a vision she has of her on a cliff on Morrowindl where Wren has both the Ruhk Staff and the Elf Stones, but could not use them, and something huge approached but Wren didn't recognize the threat, and there was a glint of silver which Wren would hasten to embrace, but was advised not to do so. Where is this vision fulfilled in the book?? It's driving me crazy that I didn't recognize it. I kept waiting for it as I finished the book series, but never caught it. Thanks!

Which episodes do you think stands away? I believe the episode Pykon because Amberle gets down a peg when she finds out that Elves are far from noble than she was lend to believe after she looked down on Rovers. Amberle was lucky that Remo did not take advantage of her when she was uncinscious.

All I can find in the books is that it's in the deep Westland? Did I miss something? Is there a more precise location? I like to track the characters movements with the map provided, but I'm having a tough time with Tavo

Isn`t Panax a distant relative of the Ohmsford

So I have been working on a D&D campaign loosely based of the Shannara series. I was wondering if anyone new where to find a list of settings (places or, the mountains, rivers, plains, cities, etc in the world of Shannara), characters, etc. A history of Shannara might be helpful too. Just as a starting point. I don't want to use the plot, but more so the world and it's history. I have been looking through the the books and using the World of Shannara book to find the info, but it is slow going. I love this series. Since creating an entire world from scratch is a LOT of work, and while I am working on doing that I thought it would be cool to base my first campaign as DM in this world while I focus on creating my own and learning the mechanics of DMing and storytelling overall. Thanks in advance.

where is the valley in "bearers of the black staff", is it Sarandanon ? It must be near Arbolon, but the name is never given.

I have seen on wikis that they are making scripts from the episodes. Is that something which could be suggested on this wiki?