As a young King Eventine fought in the War of the Races alongside the Druid Allanon and Shea Ohmsford, thirty years prior to the events of The Shannara Chronicles. After the war, he worked successfully to convince the Elven people that magic was only a myth, in the hopes of ensuring his people's security. Later in life Eventine watched Aine, his oldest son and heir, get killed at the hands of the Gnome assassin Slanter.