
A farm boy raised by his aunt is swept onto a quest across kingdoms when a stolen relic sets an ancient prophecy in motion, and his family turns out to be far older than they seem.
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Three farm boys leave their isolated Two Rivers village after a night of black-cloaked riders, and one of them turns out to be the reincarnation of the man prophesied to break the world.

Twenty years after the Gifted lost a war and were bound by the Tenets, Davian, a student at one of their schools who can't use his powers, discovers he can do something forbidden, and flees with his friends as an ancient threat stirs in the north.

Eragon, a farm boy in the remote land of Alagaësia, finds a polished blue stone in the mountains that hatches into a dragon, and finds himself heir to the Dragon Riders, the order destroyed by the tyrant king Galbatorix.

In the Banished Lands, where giants once ruled, Corban, a blacksmith's son, wants only to become a warrior, while kings gather for war, an old prophecy stirs and a wolven pup attaches itself to him.

Richard Cypher, a woods guide in Westland, rescues a mysterious woman, Kahlan, from four assassins, and learns she has crossed the magical boundary to find the long-lost wizard who can name a Seeker of Truth to stand against the tyrant Darken Rahl.

Shea Ohmsford, a half-elf in the quiet village of Shady Vale, learns from the druid Allanon that he is the last heir to the Sword of Shannara, the only weapon that can destroy the Warlock Lord.

A kitchen boy in a crumbling castle discovers he is at the centre of a prophecy when an ancient evil stirs beneath the mountains.

Pug, an orphaned kitchen boy at the castle of Crydee, is apprenticed to the magician Kulgan just as invaders from another world begin coming through a rift in space, and the war that follows carries him and his friend Tomas far from home.

Taran, an assistant pig-keeper in the land of Prydain who dreams of being a hero, chases after the oracular pig Hen Wen when she runs away, and is swept into a war against the Horned King.

A prince discovers he can heal the mysterious disease destroying his kingdom's magic, but the cure demands a terrible price.

A soldier stripped of his rank and a scholar desperate to save her people bond over ancient magical armour as war engulfs a storm-ravaged world.

A hobbit inherits a ring of absolute power and must carry it across a continent to destroy it in the fires where it was made.