Shanara is a powerful enchantress, and a very good friend of Score, Helaine and Pixel. Although she is not as powerful as them, she does help them out often. In the end of the tenth book, we discover that she is Score's mother. Once known as Cathane of Ordin, she was tortured by her brother-in-law, Traxis, but Score, Helaine, Pixel, and Jenna bring her to Earth. Jagomath makes it so she's 500 years after her own time (Cathane lived in Shakespeare's day). She was pregnant with Score, and within months the Triad was defeated & Traxis' essence flowed into the fetus.