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About Beyond the Moons

Little did Teldin Moore know there was life beyond Krynn's moons--until a crashed spelljamming ship demolished his farm and changed his life. With a dying alien's magical cloak and cryptic words, Teldin quickly discovers that he's a popular fellow with killers and cutthroats.

Review

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Bakukal, Deepkolt the 4th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Beyond the Moons. I will be spoiling the story, so if you don’t want to know it, stop watching now! I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this YouTube channel, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. This is my perspective only, and if you have any thoughts or disagree with mine, I invite you to share them in YouTube chat.

We open with the spaceship Penumbra under attack. Captain Hemar orders the ship to land on the nearby planet of Krynn, and it crashlands in Teldin Moore’s field. Teldin is a farmer who served as a Mule Skinner in the War of the Lance, burying the dead after the battle of the High Clerist’s Tower and the Siege of Kalaman. He returned to his father and grandfather's homestead in Estwilde for the quiet and simplicity of farm life. His elderly neighbor Liam Shal had just helped him work his melon field when they spotted something in the sky. Liam heads home, and a little while later a spaceship crashes into Teldin’s home, decimating the field in the process. 

A female comes stumbling out of the crash and after learning that none of the crew survived gave Teldin her cloak, saying to keep it away from the Neogi, and to deliver it to the Creators. She immediately dies. Teldin could only understand her after she cast a spell on him. The ship began to go up in flames as a large giff named Trooper Gomja, a soldier assigned to the ship exited and saw Teldin hovering over his dead captain. Fearing the worst he accused him of murder and tries to shoot him with his flint-lock pistol. The pistol blows up in his face, and he passes out.

Teldin hog tied him and dragged him to safety, along with Captain Hemar’s corpse. He went into the wreck, searching for more survivors, but everyone had died. Liam comes running back after seeing the flames and as Gomja wakes, he seems to be peaceful after everything is explained to him. Teldin shares that he was a soldier as well, and Gomja now defers to him as a leader. The Giff seem to be similar to Minotaurs in their sense of honor, and their word. They look similar to hippo’s in the head rather than bulls. Liam once again returns home after Gomja buries his dead. They sleep and then the Neogi appear. Teldin and Gomja hide from them, and the Neogi leave to the nearby farms. The neogi are ravagers of worlds and leave no survivors, enjoying in consuming their kills fresh.

Fearful for Liam, Teldin takes Gomja to his farm only to find Liam, his wife, two children and even the farm animals murdered. They see no signs of the Neogi, who were searching for survivors from the wreckage. Presumably for the cloak. Feeling guilty, Teldin buries the family of his friend and they return to his ruined farm. There they rest, scavenge the ship,