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Genesis of Shannara is a trilogy of Shannara prequel novels written by Terry Brooks. The events in the trilogy take place in the Old World, about 2,000 years before the events of The Sword of Shannara.

Genesis of Shannara covers events during the Great Wars, a confluence of cataclysmic events in the Old World which are alluded to often in the Shannara series. The novels also retroactively bridge Brooks' Word/Void trilogy with the Shannara series, making the Knights of the Word a part of the Shannara world.

The events in Genesis of Shannara take place on the West Coast of the United States. The trilogy reveals that before the Great Wars, some portion of the Four Lands was actually the Pacific Northwest. It also establishes the pre-Great Wars names and locations of several other sites of importance—for instance, the Columbia River is what later becomes known as the Silver River, while the Willamette National Forest is the Cintra, the original homeland of the Elves.

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