Weka Dart is a character in the High Druid of Shannara trilogy. He is one of the Ulk Bog, monkey-like creatures that were banished to the Forbidding during the Age of Faerie.
Biography
When Grianne Ohmsford is first trapped in the Forbidding, she sees Weka Dart in a tree, hiding from a Dracha. Using the power of the wishsong, she knocks him out of it. He berates her for knocking him out and she discovers that he communicates in a language similar to Elfish.
Weka Dart agrees to guide Grianne around the Forbidding. He leaves her abruptly a few times, though he has his reasons. Upon rescuing Grianne from the dungeons of the Straken Lord Tael Riverine, Weka Dart reveals that he was once the Straken Lord's Catcher, before Hobstull replaced him. He decides that he wants to come with Grianne to her world when she breaks out of the Forbidding, but when Pen Ohmsford arrives he reveals that the darkwand he brought with him to free Grianne can only set things back to the way they were, and that it can't transfer beings freely from the Forbidding and back.
Grianne breaks the news to Weka Dart, who is initially furious. However, upon learning that there are no creatures remotely like him in Grianne's world, he starts to reconsider. Eventually he says that her world sounds "boring" and abruptly leaves her, staying in the Forbidding.
A century later, Weka's niece Tesla Dart, having heard the stories of Grianne from her uncle, helps Redden Ohmsford traverse the Forbidding and helps him find where the other Elfstones besides the blue ones can be found. She follows Redden out of the Forbidding, eager to live in his world, but is forced back to the Forbidding when the Ellcrys is reborn again. Tesla's whereabouts were never discovered after she was sent back to the Forbidding, and her claim to being Weka's niece also remained unconfirmed.
Many generations later, when Drisker Arc is trapped inside the Forbidding, he discovers both Grianne Ohmsford and Weka Dart, who resumed being Grianne's servant after she had been sent into the Forbidding when Arlingfant Elessedil restored the Ellcrys. Although Grianne spent years in the Forbidding seeking out the lost darkwand so that she can return to the Four Lands, Weka has kept it hidden from her sight to prevent her from leaving him. His secret is only revealed when Drisker tricks him into revealing the truth.