Belatedly, the Southland cities of Dechtera, Stern and Wayford realised the danger that they had narrowly avoided, and united into the Southland Federation. The siege of Tyrsis was broken only when the Warlock Lord fell before the scion of Shannara, and his commanding Skull Bearers were destroyed. Kern fell before the onslaught, but its populace escaped to Tyrsis due to the daring ingenuity of Prince Leah. Callahorn was saved by the return of Crown Prince Balinor Buckannah, and the valor of Prince Menion Leah. The Warlock Lord placed a spy within Tyrsis who poisoned King Ruhl Buckannah and manipulated his unstable younger son Palance into disbanding the Border Legion. While the Southland refused to offer any aid in the Third War of the Races, it was Callahorn that bore the full brunt of the Northland Army. Callahorn was also a most cosmopolitan land, pursuing the multicultural dream originally intended by the First Council of Paranor. The legendary Border Legion withstood many incursions of Gnome and Rock Troll raiders.
The Borderlands became the frontier for the Southland, and the Kingdom of Callahorn emerged as a superbly defended coalition of the three cities Tyrsis, Kern and Varfleet. The city of Dechtera swelled to become the second greatest industrial centre of the Four Lands. They pursued an isolationist policy from the other Races, and soon forgot the true course of events that had led to their separation. In the long years after the War, the Race of Man withdrew into the Southland cities to lick their wounds, leaving only fledgling outposts in the Borderlands. In the aftermath of the War of the Races, Men were barred from entry into Druid's Keep (First King of Shannara). Descendants of Men who opposed this uprising formed the small highland kingdom of Leah (World of Shannara). This army attacked Paranor, but was repulsed and broken by the Druids and the combined might of the other Races. The rebel Druid Brona incited a violent separatist uprising in the Southland, that soon encompassed and united the full might of Man.
The Druid Council granted the Race of Man sovereign rulership over the Southland. The Race of Man was brought out of a tribal and warlike existence by the First Council of Paranor, of which they played an important role in forming. Men are descended from some of the lucky humans that did not alter or mutate from the effects of the Great Wars, due to living within the sheltered Southland. The Men, who live primarily in the Southland, are the primary race of the Shannara novels.
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