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About Dragon Knight

The seventh title in the new Dragonlance adventure series for young readers.

Dragon Knights continues a new series of Dragonlance fantasy adventures written specifically for readers ages 10 and up. Sized to fit the young reader market, the series features a group of young companions who band together for friendship and excitement during the golden age of the Dragonlance world.

Review

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Bakukal, Darkember the 4th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Dragon Knight by Dan Willis. 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.

This novel seems to be exclusively dealing with Davyn from the companions. He is wrestling with his failure of saving Nearra from Asvoria, and the supposed death of Elidore. He has taken Elidor’s flute and is practicing using it as an honor to his blood brother's memory. He is drinking himself into a funk, and when returning to his room at an inn, is attacked and knocked out before realizing who it is. It turned out to be Nearra’s sister, Jirah. We learn that Jirah is looking for Nearra to have her end her family's curse. Their ancestor Anselm was the last of a long line of potent wizards but they were cursed somehow, and a dragon statue called Trinistyr has something to do with it. The problem is, that if they drop the curse when Asvoria is still in control of Nearra then she will have access to their ancestral diving arcane power.

Jirah insists on Davyn helping her find Nearra and Davyn is taken aback by Jirah’s resemblance to Nearra. He agrees to take her to the town of Potters Mill to talk with the Seer Shemnara. They head into the Vingaard Mountains with proper provisions, and stop at Dog’s Trading Post to equip up and visit his old friend. They finally get to the town and meet all their old friends from a few books back. I was excited to see Set-ai is still alive and the same great father figure that Davyn needs.

Shemnara tells Davyn the only way to defeat Asvoria and separate her from the connection they made in the dragon well, which is the only reason Nearra is still alive, is to get the aid of Oddvar the Thiewar Dwarf that worked with Maddoc, and have him guide this new group of companions into Viranesh Keep to seek the aid of the Dragon Knight. Reluctantly Davyn agrees to approach Oddvar about help, and he finds him in a town called Arnal working as a blacksmith. Oddvar reluctantly agrees to take them with the promise of keeping any treasure they find, when an elf accosts Davyn as he's playing the elven flute, questioning him where he got it, and a bunch of men watching Oddvar decide to draw their swords presumably to attack.

Splitting the party is something that made sense in Chronicles because there were a ton of people in the group, but in this story,