02023cam a2200265 4500 85463171 TxAuBib 20110921120000.0 110415s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011014440 9780345484208 hardcover : alk. paper $27.00 0345484207 hardcover : alk. paper $27.00 DLC DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ TxAuBib Brooks, Terry. The measure of the magic / Terry Brooks. 1st ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 2011. 383 p. ; 25 cm. Legends of Shannara ; 2 For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the blighted and dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, the borders have been breached by predators, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and its profound power, devoted his life to protecting the valley and its inhabitants -- and, in his final moments, gave stewardship of the black staff to the young tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter, Princess Phryne Amarantyne, stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these will pale beside the most harrowing menace Panterra is destined to confront -- a nameless, merciless figure who wanders the devastated land on a relentless mission: to claim the last black staff . . . and the life of he who wields it. 20110921. Shannara (Imaginary place) Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Legends of Shannara ; 2.