History Characters / TheHeritageOfShannara

* FaceOfTheBand: The only member of the Federation's Coalition Council to actually appear in the story.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask:[[spoiler:Has shades of this in ''Talismans'']].

See Characters/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy

* GlassCannon[=/=]SquishyWizard: Par for the course with Wishsong users. Par is a not-particularly tough kid, with a tremendous amount of power at his disposal.

* SiblingYinYang: With Coll.

** AncestralWeapon: [[spoiler:The Sword]] has been part of the family's legacy for centuries at this point.

* SiblingYinYang: With Par.

* RedBaron: Dark Uncle

* CoolSword: The Sword of Leah of course.
** AmuletOfDependency: Morgan, like Rone before him, swiftly becomes addicted to the Sword's magic, and nearly BSOD's upon losing it.
** AncestralWeapon: Still the Sword of his House.
** {{Antimagic}}: Making it deadly to Shadowen
** BlackSwordsAreBetter
** WreckedWeapon-->ReforgedBlade: The Sword of Leah is shattered during Morgan's escape from The Pit in the latter third of ''Scions''. His arc in ''Druid'' is based around trying to have it fixed, which he succeeds in doing by the end.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Although given the medieval style setting, it makes a certain amount of sense.
* BadassNormal

* TheVoiceless

* BodySnatcher[=/=]BodySurf: The Shadowen are wraiths and regularly switch bodies, draining the victims of magic in the process.

* SecretPolice[=/=]StateSec: It's hard to tell just which the Seekers are sometimes. Either way, he's in charge and proud of it.

* CoolMask

* EmotionlessGirl

* TheQuietOne

* FriendToAllLivingThings
* GreenThumb

* ProfessionalKiller

** TheStarscream: Currently seeks to usurp its father's position quite openly.

* SandWorm

** GiantSpider
* DarkIsEvil

* LightningBruiser
* ManiacMonkeys
* NighInvulnerability: Shrugs off sword blows and hits from the Elfstones. They finally have to drown it in mud.
** And even then it's not clear if even THAT killed it, or just trapped it.

* AlliterativeName

* IntellectualAnimal
* IOweYouMyLife

* SpikeShooter
* TalkingAnimal
* UndyingLoyalty: To Wren

* HeroSecretService
* PraetorianGuard

** {{Plaguemaster}}: Pestilence.
** WalkingWasteland: Famine.

* SpikesOfVillainy: War

** CarryABigStick: The mace is the weapon he most uses after his axe.

** AnAxeToGrind: Seems to be a personal favourite.

* CoolPet: Gloon is a War Shrike, a creature that can best be described as an airborne wolverine, complete with the attitude, badassery, and lack of regard for its own personal safety. About as cool a pet as you can get.

* SinisterScythe: Death carries one as his WeaponOfChoice.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Both of them.

* KnifeNut: Like many of Brooks' characters, she seems to prefer long knives and short swords to larger weapons.

* KnifeNut: With a magic knife (The Stiehl) to boot.

* {{Expy}}: Of Shea. For maybe half the first book. Then...crap happens.

* {{Expy}}: Of Flick, initially.

* {{Expy}}: Starts out as one of Menion...then goes through Hell and comes out very, very different.

* {{Expy}}: Of Whisper before him.

* GrumpyBear

* GrumpyBear

* [[MasterSwordsman Master Swordswoman]]: Second-best swordsperson in the free-born, behind only Padishar himself. She can outfight Morgan, himself an experienced Shadowen-killing machine.

* BadassBeard

* BadassBeard

%%* BadassBeard

* NotSoDifferent: From the Shadowen, and particularly from Rimmer Dall.

* NotSoDifferent: How he sees himself and the King of the Silver River.

* NotSoDifferent: His forte. Used on Par, Pe Ell, Coll, and everyone else he wants to manipulate.

%%* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:In ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheJerleShannara'']].

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Is still around by the time of ''Isle Witch'', putting him somewhere around one hundred fifty years old.

* TheSociopath
* StepfordSmiler: A deliberate one.

* {{Badass Grandpa}}

* FunctionalAddict

* KillAndReplace: Did this with [[spoiler:the actual Free-born agent Padishar had sent, although only in terms of role rather than identity and appearance]]. Eventually discovered by Tiger Ty, when it's almost too late.

* BrokenBird[=/=]{{Kuudere}}: Courtesy of a traumatic backstory that's both believable and very sad.

* ItsPersonal: When The Rake comes within milimetres of killing him, Pe Ell becomes determined to hunt the big insect down and kill it.

* PraetorianGuard

* FourIsDeath: "Names and methods aside, they were all death in one form or another."
* TheGrimReaper: Death.

* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his War Shrike.

* ABoyAndHisX: An old man and his Roc.

** CarryABigStick: Another favourite.

%%* FeatheredFiend: [[spoiler:Gloon.]]
%%* TheHeartless: [[spoiler:Both of them.]]

* BadassPrincess: [[spoiler:Although she's totally unaware of it]].

* DirtyCoward: While a case could be made he was influenced into doing so by the whispers of the Drakuls (though Wren eventually dismisses this as wishful thinking), in the end he [[spoiler:abandons the group while they are rescuing Wren, kills one of the Elven Hunters, and flees with the Ruhk Staff]]. Though his other reason for doing this (his belief that the magic was the only means they had to save themselves, and that [[TooDumbToLive if they just tried hard enough, the Elves could master it where their ancestors had failed]], is itself a form of cowardice.

* YouAreInCommandNow: When Ellenroh Elessedil is killed during the trip through Morrowindle, Wren ends up in charge of the rapidly DwindlingParty [[spoiler:and then the entire Elven nation.]]

%%* HeroicSacrifice

%%* DirtyCoward

%%* FaceHeelTurn
%%* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By the Wisteron]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Or more accurately, by one another's. Unable to overcome their HealingFactor, Walker uses his MasterOfIllusion abilities to trick them into killing one another.

** AnAxeToGrind: Seems to a personal favourite.

%%* TheMole
* PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler:Tib the Shadowen is still incredibly childish. It's as though his disguise has begun to effect his personality]].

* GlassCannon[=/=]SquishyWizard: Paar for the course with Wishsong users. Par is a not-particularly tough kid, with a tremendous amount of power at his disposal.

A descendant of Jair Ohmsford, and TheHero of the trilogy, he has inherited Jair's MasterOfIllusion powers. Initially a travelling storyteller, he and his brother Coll are summonded, along with Walker Boh and Wren to the Hadeshorn, and given a charge by Allanon. Par's is to retrieve The Sword of Shannara. Desperate to be a hero, he is the first Ohmsford to embrace his charge, involving himself not only in the quest for The Sword, but in the free-born effort to throw off the Federation.

* BreakTheHaughty: The book as a whole is a devestating one for him.

%%* MightyGlacier: Compared to other people, he's probably a LightningBruiser, but when forced to face the Wisteron and other various Shadowen monsters, he's much closer to this.

%%* SecretKeeper: [[spoiler:For Wren's mother.]]

* AnimalMotifs: All the Seekers where a silver wolf's head on their necklace of office. In Dall's case the metaphor is more pronounced then with most.