History Series / TheShannaraChronicles

* ActionGirl: Amberle and Eretria can both kick some serious ass, as can elven commander Diana. Season 2 adds Lyria, Mareth, and possibly Queen Tamlin.

It is a loose adaptation of the ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' books by Creator/TerryBrooks, taking place in a separate continuity. The first season retells the events of ''The Elfstones of Shannara'', chronicling the efforts of a group of heroes to save the Four Lands from the return of a demonic army from the dimension where they were imprisoned long ago. (''Elfstones'' is actually the second Shannara book, but the rights to the first, ''The Sword of Shannara'' are held by others; also, ''Elfstones'' is somewhat more popular). The second season continues the plot and diverges from the books. It also lifts characters from the novel ''First King of Shannara'', a prequel to the original book.

It is a loose adaptation of the ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' books by Creator/TerryBrooks, taking place in a separate continuity. The first season retells the events of ''The Elfstones of Shannara'', chronicling the efforts of a group of heroes to save the Four Lands from the return of a demonic army from the dimension where they were imprisoned long ago. (''Elfstones'' is actually the second Shannara book, but the rights to the first, ''The Sword of Shannara'' are held by others). The second season continues the plot and diverges from the books. It also lifts characters from the novel ''First King of Shannara'', a prequel to the original book.

** Eretria saves Wil's life by killing a troll with a single thrown knife and proceeds to snark mercilessly at him. [[spoiler: In the next scene, she tricks him into [[BelligerentSexualTension stripping down]] before [[CombatPragmatist drugging]] and [[TheArtfulDodger robbing]] him, all of which also turns out to be par for the course.]]
** The Dagda Mor gets one when it enters Allanon's mind in Paranor and freaks him out. Anything that [[TheDreaded Allanon is terrified of]] is bad news.

* EvilerThanThou: Season 2 has two main villains - Riga, a zealot who [[AntimagicalFaction persecutes magic users]] for their supposed culpability in the demon invasion and who is himself immune to magic, and [[spoiler: Bandon,]] a bitter magic user who has been both persecuted and exploited for his gifts and wants revenge on normal people because of it. While they avoid each other for most of the season, they eventually face off and [[spoiler: Bandon's newly-resurrected master, the Warlock Lord, is far more than Riga can handle and kills him without much difficulty.]]

** The humans of Shady Vale fear Gnomes ''and'' Trolls ''and'' Rovers, if Flick is anything to go by. They also gave Wil a hard time growing up, but it's unclear if it's because he was half Elven in particular or if it was just because he was [[AllTheOtherReindeer different.]]