
Some users would find more success with talismans like the Sword of Shannara or the Elfstones than others. Its power is enhanced or weakened by the strength of the user. It draws from the earth, air, fire and water in various forms.

Nonetheless, many continued to study science, convinced that one day it would be used again.Īfter the events of The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy, the Druid Order was restored, with its new mandate, to gather all knowledge, and keep the Four Lands from strife.ĭruid magic, like most of the magic that originates in the Four Lands, is elemental. However, the Druids found that, over the millennium after the holocaust, crucial pieces of knowledge of the old sciences had been lost, and without the pieces crucial to their understanding, the Druids were unable to restore science to benefit the Races as they had wished. The result was the First Council at Paranor, and thus the Druids were born.

