Westland
From The World of Shannara
The Westland is a region in the Four Lands that correspond with the compass point, thus being in the west of the Four Lands. It is the home of the Elven Race, both Land Elves and Sky Elves as well as a large number of Rovers.
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Overview
The main areas of the Westland are as follows:
- the Sarandanon
- Arborlon
- Wilderun
- Wing Hove
- The Blue Divide
It is bordered by the Southland at the Tirfing and Drey Wood, and on the Northland by the Valley of Rhenn, in the very west it is bordered by the Blue Divide.
Sarandanon
Baen Draw
Breakline
The Breakline is a series of very steep and craggy mountains that are the northern extension of the Kensrowe Mountains. The reach into Kershalt Territory in the Northland. The Elves do not venture here much, and few if any of the Races are known to live or travel in the Breakline.
Halys Cut
Hoare Flats
Hoare Flats is a dry, cracked desert area that stretches out past the Kensrowe Mountains on till it reaches the coast at the Blue Divide. It was somewhere in the Hoare Flats that the demons broke through the Forbidding and begun their attack on the Elves and the Ellcrys in the War of the Forbidding
Innisbore
The Innisbore is a vast lake on the west end of the Sarandanon that butts up against the Kensrowe Mountains on the west and north sides. It is feed by the swift and wide Rill Song.
Kensrowe Mountains
The Sarandanon is bordered on the north end by the Kensrowe Mountains. Steep and largely impassable mountains except at a few places.
Chew Magna
Ancient fortress located deep in the Kensrowe. It is here that the Black Elfstone is located by Tay Trefenwyd and Jerle Shannara during the First King of Shannara.
Worl Run
Arborlon
Arborlon was a large village during the time of the First War of the Races to become a city, full of excitement and expectation, and crossroads to the Westland by the time leading up to the Second War of the Races.[1] The First War of the Races had seen the decline of the Race of Man in the affairs of the world. With this the Elves and the city of Arborlon had taken on an increasingly important role as a major influence in the Four Lands. Yet still during the time of the Second War of the Races, Arborlon was one of the only major Elven cities, with the Sarandanon not yet being populated by Elves in any sizeable numbers.
Carolan
Gardens of Life
Valley of Rhenn
The Valley of Rhenn is the western gateway to the Elven city of Arborlon. The eastern end of the Rhenn was inviting being a gentle stretch of grasslands between two clusters of low foothills. Yet the valley quickly narrowed with the floor of it sloping upwards and the foothills rising to become steep bluffs.[2]
| “ | By the time you reached the other end, you where looking into the jaws of a vise. | „ |
| -- First King of Shannara (1996), pp. 115 | ||
The Rhenn was chalk full of think forests deep to the North and South. This made the Valley of Rhenn a natural defensive barrier to any major force coming from the East to Arborlon.
Battle for the Rhenn
During the time of the Second War of the Races, the Valley of Rhenn was site of a termendous battle between the Northland army of the Warlock Lord and the forces of the Elven nation as lead by Jerle Shannara.
Wilderun
Wing Hove
Blue Divide
References
- ^ Brooks, Terry (1996). First King of Shannara pp. 123
- ^ Brooks, Terry (1996). First King of Shannara pp. 115
