r/shannara • u/GnarledFox • Jul 02 '25

Several hours of hunting and I’ve completed the set

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A long ebay deep dive and some help from a Canadian card shop owner (Thanks Eric) and I’ve got all four! Now to have them framed so it can be turned to see the back or something cool.

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u/Pyroseirraecho4 Jul 02 '25

Never knew these existed wow.

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u/GnarledFox Jul 02 '25

Yeah I was looking up Keith Parkinson and found these. They’re rare-ish but not crazy expensive

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u/Fab_666 Jul 02 '25

They are really nice!!

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u/GnarledFox Jul 02 '25

Thank you. They are mint. I’ve actually got 2 extras, one of Talismans and one of Elf Queen

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u/lightswarm175 Jul 02 '25

How big are they?

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u/GnarledFox Jul 03 '25

Pokémon card size. So standard trading card size I’d say

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u/KaoBee010101100 Jul 04 '25

Very cool, thanks for sharing. I don’t believe the artist got a credit anywhere inside the editions of these books I have, so I’d been wondering recently who it is.

I like how for Druid he calls attention to the nature. I hadn’t realized how that is an important hidden “character” in the cover. It’s always been one of my favorites, it really communicates the promise of a “Quickening” to a broken world through the down but not out character of Walker.

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u/GnarledFox Jul 05 '25

Totally agree. Keith Parkinson has some killer art. Not sure if he did every single cover art, but those 4 are credited to him. Talismans is my favorite. One of my favorite parts is when Walker faces the four horsemen at Paranor.