![]() ![]() Long ago in "the time of Faerie", Elves had conquered the demon hordes that ruled the planet, sealing the forces into another world called the "Forbidding". Meanwhile, deep in the Oregon woods in the Elven kingdom known as The Cintra, exists Arborlon, the largest Elven city in the world, hidden away from men. ![]() He and Tessa are sentenced to death for breaking the law of the compound. Confused, Hawk sets out to visit Tessa, but is captured by guards at the Safeco compound. Hawk, arriving just after the battle, cradles Cheney and mysteriously the dog's life is restored. The beast is destroyed by Sparrow and Cheney, but Cheney is mortally wounded. Later, Hawk goes to bring medical supplies as part of a trade to one of the competing tribes, the Cats, but while he is away the rest of the gang is attacked by a mutant resembling a giant centipede. He is sick with a plague and Hawk grudgingly agrees to take him back to the hideout to have him cared for. Hawk tracks her, and finds that she has been secretly visiting a man that turns out to be her grandfather-a mad homeless man whom everyone else knows as the Weatherman (because of his incoherent meteorological ramblings). He secretly sees Tessa, a girl from the nearby compound at Safeco Field, though they are forbidden to be together by compound law.Ī young Ghost girl named River, sneaks out of the hideout. He has prophetic dreams in which he leads a large group into a new "promised land". Their leader, Hawk, is multi-talented, and unaware that he is a gypsy morph, a magical creature. A group of children, the Ghosts, hide out in the ruins of downtown Seattle. The world, now ravaged by nuclear war and plague, lies in ruins, overrun by Demons and other monsters, with the remaining humans forced into tightly controlled fortress-like compounds. It is followed by the novel The Elves of Cintra. It takes place in an apocalyptic world around the year 2100 (about eighty years after the novel Angel Fire East) and details the events during the Great Wars, a historical conflict referenced frequently in the Shannara books. Armageddon's Children is a fantasy novel by American writer Terry Brooks, the first in his trilogy The Genesis of Shannara, which bridges the events of Brooks' Word and Void trilogy with his Shannara series.
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