Editing Shannara (section)

==Setting==
The Shannara series is set in a [[apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] world called '''the Four Lands'''. This world is a futuristic version of our own, and not a secondary world. The ''[[Shannara#The Genesis of Shannara|Genesis of Shannara]]'' trilogy reveals the Four Lands to be located in the modern [[Pacific Northwest]] region of the United States and Canada. Much of the landscape has been changed by a future [[nuclear holocaust]] called The Great Wars, but some landmarks remain. For example, the [[Columbia River]] still exists.<ref>{{cite book |last=Brooks |first=Terry |date=2007 |title=The Elves of Cintra |url=https://archive.org/details/elvesofcintra00broo |url-access=registration |publisher=Del Rey Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/elvesofcintra00broo/page/287 287]–288 |isbn=978-0-345-48411-6 |access-date=2014-03-30 }}</ref>

Each land is named after the compass point it faces: the Northland, the Southland, the Eastland, and the Westland, and is the primary home of different peoples. The Westland is the homeland primarily of the elves, while the Northland is mostly inhabited by trolls and the Eastland is the home mostly of dwarves and gnomes. The Southland is primarily the homeland of humans.{{citation needed|date=April 2021}}

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File:Terres du nord.png|Northland
File:Terres du sud.png|Southland
File:Terres de l'est - Shannara.png|Eastland
File:Terres de l'ouest - Shannara.png|Westland
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