Tanequil
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| name = Tanequil
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| image = [[Image:Tanequil.gif|200px]]<!--prefer 1st edition-->
| image_caption = Cover art of ''Tanequil''
| author = [[Terry Brooks]]
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| cover_artist = Art: Steve Stone <Br>Design: David Stevevson <!--From back cover of book-->
| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[High Druid of Shannara]]
| genre = [[Fantasy novel]]
| publisher = [[Del Rey Books]]
| release_date = [[31 August]] [[2004]]
| media_type = Print ([[Hardcover|Hardback]] & [[Paperback]])
| pages = 368 pp
| isbn = ISBN 0-345-43574-5
| preceded_by = [[Jarka Ruus]]
| followed_by = [[Straken]]
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'''''Tanequil''''' is a fantasy novel in the [[High Druid of Shannara]] trilogy of the ''[[Shannara]]'' series by [[Terry Brooks]]. First published in [[2004]], the book takes place immediately after the events of ''[[Jarka Ruus]]'' and is followed by the novel ''[[Straken]]''.
==Plot summary==
[[Pen Ohmsford|Pen]], [[Shannara Druids#Khyber Elessedil|Khyber]], and company rescue Cinnaminson and continue their journey north, pursued continuously by traitorous [[Shannara Druids|Druids]] and the assassin Aphasia Wye. Pen's parents, [[Bek Ohmsford|Bek]] and [[Rue Meridian|Rue]], attempt to locate him by using the magical scrye waters in the depths of [[Paranor]], but are captured and unwillingly give Pen's position away. Pen and his friends find allies among the [[Shannara creatures#Trolls|Troll]] people, led by Kermadec and his semi-estranged brother Atlatan, who aid them in locating the mystical Tanequil tree on a ravine-surrounded island. From the Tanequil, Pen receives the enchanted wooden "darkwand," a talisman that can aid him in saving his aunt. However, two of his fingers, as well as Cinnaminson, are taken in exchange. Pen and Aphasia meet in one last confrontation in which the assassin is killed by the Tanequil, but as Pen leaves the island, he finds the rest of his party taken hostage by the enemy Druid traitors.
Meanwhile, the corrupt [[The Federation (Shannara)|Federation]] army has unleashed a devastating new airship-mounted weapon in their war against the [[Elves (Shannara)|Elven]] and Free-born armies. A shape-shifting [[Demons (Shannara)|Demon]] called the [[Demons (Shannara)#The Moric|Moric]], has crossed over into the [[Four Lands]] from the Forbidding in exchange for [[Grianne Ohmsford|Grianne]]'s banishment. This creature, who has taken the form of a Druid advisor to the Federation leader, is intent on using the weapon to destroy the [[Ellcrys]] tree in [[The Four Lands#The Westland|Arborlon]], which would allow the Demon hordes from the Forbidding to flood into the Four Lands.
Finally, caged inside a Demon stronghold in the Forbidding, [[Grianne Ohmsford|Grianne]] discovers the Straken Lord's master plan to have the Ellcrys destroyed, and how he manipulated Grianne's nemesis [[Druid (Shannara)#Shadea a.27Ru|Shadea a'Ru]] to advance towards this goal. When Grianne is pitted in a contest against a horde of demonic Furies, she is forced to take a Demon-like form in a desperate attempt to survive. She then finds herself trapped in this form because of an enchanted collar, and her only hope for survival lies in the Straken Lord's former minion, Weka Dart.
==Characters in "Tanequil"==
*Aphasia Wye
*Arling Elessedil
*Atalan
*Cinnaminson
*Etan Orek
*Gerand Cera
*[[Grianne Ohmsford]]
*Iridea Eleri
*Kermadec
*Kellen Elessedil
*[[Shannara Druids#Khyber Elessedil|Khyber Elessedil]]
*[[Demons (Shannara)#The Moric|Moric, The]]
*[[Pen Ohmsford]]
*Pied Sanderling
*Pyson Wence
*Sen Dunsidan
*[[Shadea a'Ru#Shadea a.27Ru|Shadea a'Ru]]
*[[Demons (Shannara)#Tael Riverine|Tael Riverine]]
*Tagwen
*Traunt Rowan
*Trefen Morys
*Weka Dart
==External links==
*[http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780345435743 Del Rey Online | Tanequil by Terry Brooks]
*[http://www.terrybrooks.net Terry Brooks official website]
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