03-04-2016, 11:38 AM
(03-04-2016, 03:10 AM)Sovereign Nation Wrote: Do you mean Eritrea? The rover girl?
I won't spoil anything but the books cover quite of bit of time.
The Word/Void covers our time.
The Genesis of Shannara is a not so distant future.
The Legends of Shannara is set at least 500 years after the Genesis.
The First King of Shannara is countless years after the Legends duology. It itself is set 500 years before the Sword of Shannara.
The Sword / Elfstones / Wishsong are all part of a trilogy that read more as independent books. Meaning you could read anyone of them without having to read the others. However they are the Shea Ohmsford line. Shea / his grandson Wil / great grandchildren Brin and Jair.
Then about 300 years after Wishsong is the quadrology the Heritage of Shannara. These 4 books all follow 3 events that are happening at the same time. While the Ohmsford brothers that descended from Jair set out to retrieve the fabled Sword of Shannara, Walker Boh a descendant of Brin must bring back the Druids, Wren Ohmsford must seek the Elves and come to terms with her own heritage.
About 150 years later is the Voyage of Jerle Shannara.
About 20 years after that is the High Druid of Shannara.
About 100 years after that is the Dark Legacy of Shannara - these books go into a lot of detail about certain things.
About 100 years after that is The Defenders of Shannara.
So Nest Freemark was born in 1983 - she was 11 at the opening of Running with the Demon - making the start around 1994.
As you can see. The series has traversed nearly 2000 years or more.
Which is why i was asking as it doesnt seem a good set up for a long running series as to much will change from one season to the next lol.
