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Oct 11, 2017 · Druid: Directed by Brad Turner. With Austin Butler, Ivana Baquero, Manu Bennett, Aaron Jakubenko. A year after the War of the Forbidding, a mysterious figure interrupts Wil's new life; Eretria reunites with someone from her past; Allanon uncovers a plot that could send the Four Lands into darkness.
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Allanon is a main character in the original Shannara trilogy. For nearly all of his life he was the last of the Druids. He dedicated his life to the protection and preservation of the Four Lands and repeatedly recruited members of the House of Shannara in the Ohmsford family to aid him on various quests to defeat evil.
Background
Allanon was a young boy wandering through the ruins of Varfleet, having lost his parents to the destruction of the city, when he met the aged Druid Bremen. Bremen took the boy in and the two became attached to each other. Eventually Allanon sought to become like Bremen, and the old man taught him the Druid arts. Allanon participated in the Second War of the Races alongside Bremen, and studied in Paranor after the war for several years, until Bremen's passing. Like Bremen, Allanon was the last of the Druids after the Druid Order had been eradicated by the Warlock Lord. He carried on Bremen's legacy as the only Druid of the Four Lands, preserving two kinds of knowledge: knowledge that had been salvaged from the Old World as well as the knowledge of magic that the first Druid Order had rediscovered. Initial descriptions of Allanon call him "the mysterious wanderer of the Four Lands, historian of the Races, philosopher and teacher, and practitioner of the mystic arts." Allanon was enigmatic and secretive, appearing in the Four Lands only when needed, and passing decades of time in a form of suspended animation called the Druid Sleep. He was never completely honest with those whose help he requested: his words were few and clouded in half-truths, and his companions were kept on a "need-to-know" basis. Beginning with Shea Ohmsford, he repeatedly called on the aid of the descendants of Jerle Shannara's bloodline. Many believe Allanon to be the greatest of the Druids and the last Druid of the second Druid Order, to which Bremen belonged.
Quest to Defeat the Warlock Lord
Allanon first reveals himself to the Ohmsford family when he calls on Shea Ohmsford to retrieve the lost Sword of Shannara and use it to destroy the Warlock Lord. He gave Shea the Elfstones to protect himself on his journey.
Quest to Save the Ellcrys
When the Ellcrys begins to fail, causing the Forbidding to crumble, Demons start escaping the Forbidding and attacking the Elves and the Four Lands. To stop them, Allanon sends Shea's grandson Wil Ohmsford and the Elven princess Amberle Elessedil on a quest to restore the Ellcrys, while Allanon remains behind in the Elven city of Arborlon to battle the Demon hordes.
Centuries after Allanon gave Shea Ohmsford the Elfstones, they still belong to the House of Shannara. Although they are in the hands of the Elessedils, the House of Elessedil has been a part of the House of Shannara since the time of the Elf Queen Ellenroh Elessedil.
Usage of the Elfstones by Shea's grandson Wil contaminates his body with the Elven magic, a consequence of attempting to use the Elfstones while not possessing a high enough amount of Elven blood. The magic that becomes a part of Wil's body later manifests in Wil's children Brin and Jair as the wishsong. Centuries after Brin and Jair, their descendants often carry the magic of the wishsong, and innate magic has become an indelible a part of the Shannara bloodline.
Walker Boh, a descendant of Brin Ohmsford, eventually becomes Allanon's successor, ultimately fulfilling the trust given to Brin by restoring Paranor and absorbing Allanon's spirit and life experience with the power of the Black Elfstone. During his time as the last of the Druids, Walker consults the shade of Allanon at the Hadeshorn.
Although he restores Paranor and becomes the last of the Druids, Walker is ultimately unable to create a new Druid Order. As Walker lays dying, he wipes a bit of his blood on Grianne Ohmsford's forehead, who at the time was still the Ilse Witch, surreptiously imbuing her with his trust in the way Allanon had done with Brin. After Bek Ohmsford and Truls Rohk take the dying Walker to an underground lake, the shade of Allanon appears to bear him away to an afterlife in the Hadeshorn.
Later, after Grianne has renounced her life as the Ilse Witch and accepted Walker's trust, she creates the third Druid Order and becomes the order's Ard Rhys. Like Walker had done before her, Grianne consults with Allanon's shade.
Allanon's shade appears to Khyber Elessedil, Ard Rhys of the fourth Druid Order, before Khyber and others embark on a quest to find the missing sets of Elfstones, which have been lost since the Age of Faerie. His shade also appears for the Ard Rhys Aphenglow Elessedil, when Aphenglow is ready to die and travels to the Hadeshorn. Allanon's shade carries Aphenglow down into the lake.
Allanon is described as seven feet tall, with a dark face, a booming voice, and a hooded cowl that covers his disturbingly penetrating eyes.
In the Shannara computer game, twenty years after the defeat of the Warlock Lord, Allanon appears in Shady Vale right on time to save Shea's son, Jak Ohmsford, from a monster. He orders Jak to go to Leah and warn Menion Leah of an oncoming peril, and stays with Shea in the Vale to defend the village. Allanon is later seen in Leah, after Menion was ...
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- Terry Brooks
- 1991
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Jun 24, 2020 · Druid fire; Changes made for the TV Adaptation. Along with his magic, Allanon carries a sword and engages in physical combat quite frequently in the TV series; in the original trilogy he fights almost solely with his magic, the Druid fire. Allanon regularly uses his Druid cave as a quick way to heal himself from serious injuries.
