Bearers of the Black Staff
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 536
- ISBN-13
- 9781407468631
- Type
- novel
About this book
Terry Brooks opened his Legends of Shannara duology in 2010 with Bearers of the Black Staff, set roughly five hundred years after The Gypsy Morph as the protective seals around a hidden post-apocalyptic valley begin to fail and Sider Ament, bearer of a generations-old Black Staff, uncovers killings that force the complacent valley to face an outside world it had forgotten.
Key facts about Bearers of the Black Staff
Terry Brooks wrote Bearers of the Black Staff, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 536 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781407468631 to find the main one.
Bearers of the Black Staff is book 1 of 2 in the Legends of Shannara series. The series has 2 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.
About Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.
Its place in Legends of Shannara
Bearers of the Black Staff is book 1 in the Legends of Shannara series. It is followed by The Measure of the Magic. See the full Legends of Shannara reading order.
Terry Brooks's Legends of Shannara duology jumps roughly five hundred years past The Gypsy Morph, to the valley refuge that Hawk's magic sealed off from the nuclear devastation outside. Bearers of the Black Staff opens as the ancient protective seals begin to fail and the valley's descendants of humans, Elves, and mutated Freaks -- long isolated from the wider, healing world beyond -- discover both the outside dangers they'd forgotten and new threats massing from within, including an invading army of trolls…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781407468631