The Scions of Shannara have three tasks Par has found the fabled Sword of Shannara, but believes that he has killed his brother and has been infected by the Federation's Chief Seeker with the fear that he himself is Shadowen, the evil he seeks to destroy Wren is in the Westland, seeking out the Elves Walker Boh is to find the lost city of Parador and recreate the long disbanded order of Druids First he must find the Black Elfstone, but this is in the hands of an ancient being of timeless evil, the Stone King