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Dragon Overlords
The Dragon Overlords were an unfortunate byproduct of Takhsis’ designs in the wake of the Chaos War. One could argue they did more damage and caused more change to Krynn than the Gods ever did. Let’s learn more about the Dragon Overlords. Buy Races of Ansalon: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/27946/Races-of-Ansalon-35?affiliate_id=50797
https://youtu.be/kttJmWBz2vc
Transcript
Cold Open
We often speak of the wrath of the gods with the Cataclysm, but the Dragon Overlords made much more of an impact on Ansalon.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Dragon Overlords. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this 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. I am referencing Dragonlance Fifth Age, Wings of Fury, Age of Mortals, Dragons of Krynn, and More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home sourcebooks for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below.
Discussion
If you want to blame someone for the Fifth Age and its Dragon Overlords, you could blame TSR, but it would be more appropriate to blame Khellendros. After all it was he who traveled the ether, arriving on Krynn hundreds of years before the War of the Lance, and it was he that Takhisis promised dominion of mortals when she became the sole Goddess of Krynn. So when Takhisis’ plan to steal Krynn out from under the nose of the other gods at the end of the Chaos War came to fruition, she moved it through space-time, to a place in the absence of the other gods. The single pale moon and lack of the gods’ constellations informed the mortals of Krynn that they were no longer in the proverbial Kansas anymore, but the effort severely weakened Takhisis, and Khellendros’ travel left a path to be followed.
That’s right, Khellendros inadvertently not only left a path for other alien dragons to follow, Takhisis was too weak to stop the alien dragons that came from the Beyond and found this unprotected world ripe for the conquering. These alien dragons to Krynn discovered methods to drain the soul from the native dragons they killed, and even craft dragon totems from their skulls when killed intact. These totems allowed them to alter the land in which they dwelt and divide up Ansalon for their rule. The mortals were altogether helpless, and though the Heroes of the Heart were able to defeat Brynseldimer, it took years and a god to deal with the most dangerous of the Dragon Overlords. Let's take a birds eye view of the Dragon Overlords of Krynn’s Fifth Age.
As mentioned, Khellendros could be seen as the catalyst for all of the craziness of the early Fifth age. We are all familiar with him primarily from the War of the Lance. Only Takhisis knew he was in fact an alien dragon, not of Krynn, and when his offspring was killed and her rider assigned to him, Khellendros grew immediate respect for Kitiara Uth Matar, and eventually, like most men who knew her, fell in love with her. The dragon purge began shortly after Malys’ arrival and the race was on to not only kill other dragons to gain their power, but also to claim and expand territory. The Storm over Krynn as he is referred to claimed the Regions of Coastlund, Elkholm, and Hinterlund, the Northern Wastes, city of Palanthas, Tanith, the High Clerist's Tower, and the Vingaard Mountains. One may suppose he claimed this territory because it was the last goal of Kitiara.
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The Dragon Overlords were an unfortunate byproduct of Takhsis’ designs in the wake of the Chaos War. One could argue they did more damage and caused more change to Krynn than the Gods ever did. Let’s learn more about the Dragon Overlords. Buy Races of Ansalon: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/27946/Races-of-Ansalon-35?affiliate_id=50797
https://youtu.be/kttJmWBz2vc
Transcript
Cold Open
We often speak of the wrath of the gods with the Cataclysm, but the Dragon Overlords made much more of an impact on Ansalon.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about Dragon Overlords. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this 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. I am referencing Dragonlance Fifth Age, Wings of Fury, Age of Mortals, Dragons of Krynn, and More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home sourcebooks for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below.
Discussion
If you want to blame someone for the Fifth Age and its Dragon Overlords, you could blame TSR, but it would be more appropriate to blame Khellendros. After all it was he who traveled the ether, arriving on Krynn hundreds of years before the War of the Lance, and it was he that Takhisis promised dominion of mortals when she became the sole Goddess of Krynn. So when Takhisis’ plan to steal Krynn out from under the nose of the other gods at the end of the Chaos War came to fruition, she moved it through space-time, to a place in the absence of the other gods. The single pale moon and lack of the gods’ constellations informed the mortals of Krynn that they were no longer in the proverbial Kansas anymore, but the effort severely weakened Takhisis, and Khellendros’ travel left a path to be followed.
That’s right, Khellendros inadvertently not only left a path for other alien dragons to follow, Takhisis was too weak to stop the alien dragons that came from the Beyond and found this unprotected world ripe for the conquering. These alien dragons to Krynn discovered methods to drain the soul from the native dragons they killed, and even craft dragon totems from their skulls when killed intact. These totems allowed them to alter the land in which they dwelt and divide up Ansalon for their rule. The mortals were altogether helpless, and though the Heroes of the Heart were able to defeat Brynseldimer, it took years and a god to deal with the most dangerous of the Dragon Overlords. Let's take a birds eye view of the Dragon Overlords of Krynn’s Fifth Age.
As mentioned, Khellendros could be seen as the catalyst for all of the craziness of the early Fifth age. We are all familiar with him primarily from the War of the Lance. Only Takhisis knew he was in fact an alien dragon, not of Krynn, and when his offspring was killed and her rider assigned to him, Khellendros grew immediate respect for Kitiara Uth Matar, and eventually, like most men who knew her, fell in love with her. The dragon purge began shortly after Malys’ arrival and the race was on to not only kill other dragons to gain their power, but also to claim and expand territory. The Storm over Krynn as he is referred to claimed the Regions of Coastlund, Elkholm, and Hinterlund, the Northern Wastes, city of Palanthas, Tanith, the High Clerist's Tower, and the Vingaard Mountains. One may suppose he claimed this territory because it was the last goal of Kitiara.