Legends of Shannara · Book 1
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.
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