Enjoy this DC Comics reading of Dragonlance #23: Landfall! Continues, Part 2 of 4. It was written by Dan Mishkin, Illustrated by Ron Randall and Inked by Randy Elliott. It was released on October 1st, 1990. This comic is included in IDW Publishing's Dragonlance Classics Volume 3. You can buy Dragonlance Classics Volume 3 here: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonlance-Classics-3-Dan-Mishkin/dp/1631405934

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About Dragonlance #23: Landfall! Continues

Part 2 of the 4-part 'Dragonring': When her ship crashes against the coast of the Taladas, Riva finds herself in a new world...and in a fight against a dragon, using a dragonlance.

About Dragonlance Classics Volume 3

Volume 3 collects issues #17–25 of the DC Comics series, including the storylines "A Winter's Knight," "Landfall," and "Dragonring."

Join me as I unbox The Broken Sphere in this Dragonlance Mail Time episode. The Broken Sphere By Nigel Findley is the fifth novel in the Spelljammer The Cloakmaster Cycle Series.

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About The Broken Sphere

The Cloakmaster Cycle follows Teldin Moore's search for answers to questions revolving around the mysterious cloak he's been bequeathed. In The Broken Sphere, Teldin's magic amulet allows him to "see" through the eyes of the great ship Spelljammer, giving him clues to its location. Chapter illustrations. The Cloakmaster Cycle follows Teldin Moore's search for answers to questions revolving around the mysterious cloak he's been bequeathed. In The Broken Sphere, Teldin's magic amulet allows him to "see" through the eyes of the great ship Spelljammer, giving him clues to its location. 

The Silvanaes-Quarti, or the Lost Silvanesti of Ansalon, arrived on Taladas by accident and unlike their Ansalonian brothers, united with the races and built a confederacy. Let’s learn more about the Confederation of Armach. Buy Time of the Dragon: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16960/Time-of-the-Dragon-2e?affiliate_id=50797

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Transcript

Cold Open

It’s an imperfect example of how the races of Krynn can live in relative peace and work together.

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about The Confederation of Armach in Taladas. 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 the Time of the Dragon boxed set for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below.

Discussion

The Confederation of Armach is not a government that sprang up out of peace and unity, but it was a hard fought collaboration that defined a region of Southern Hosk in Taladas unlike anything else. Its history is one of refugees squatting and claiming land that was already populated. This is the tradition of elves, but what came out of it was a form of government that if used on Ansalon, I believe, would have prevented the Dragonarmies from driving the elves from their homelands and the minotaur nation from claiming their forest. You see, the Elves of Armach were originally from Ansalon. The elven Great Armada was sailing around Ansalon looking for suitable locations to claim as home, and a great storm struck them. Many ships were blown off course and lost, and several ships were sunk after running into Taladas’ rocky cliffs. It wasn’t until an adrift fisherman happened to come across the remaining elven ships that they were rescued, being shown the secret ways through the treacherous shoals of the Outer Banks in order to reach the Bay of Hoor. Once safely on shore, the Silvanaes asked for the blessing of the land spirits and named the area Armach, which means Dry Land in Silvanesti.

Armach was previously occupied however, but the Silvanaes didn’t consider it so, as the native peoples were primitive human barbarian tribes. The better equipped elves easily drove out the tribes from their land, and though the skirmishes were easy initially, the ousted tribes united and created a more challenging front line for the elven borders. Reaching the extent of defensible land, the elves stopped their expanse, and the remaining tribes began fighting amongst themselves. Some turned to the Silvanaes for treaty and protection, laying the groundwork of the Confederation of Armach. The Confederation is formed between  16 tribes and though the races of elves and humans make up the bulk of the confederation, it is also populated with Gnomoi, Marak Kender and Centaurs. As one might expect, the culture of the tribal humans was heavily influenced by the Silvanaes and their cultures appropriated much from one another. 

The elves easily claimed the status of the ruling class, and with the exception of their four edicts, or laws, they ruled relatively fairly over the confederation. The Silvanaes themselves are divided into two factions, the Nestiroml, the people workers, and the Neskijir, the robed people. Basically your blue and white collar cultures. The human tribes were very class based, with no real opportunities for advancing or changing your social class.

Join me as I review Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, live! Share your thoughts on this first novel in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy. You can pick up Dragons of Deceit here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602557/dragons-of-deceit-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman/

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About Dragons of Deceit

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine—desperate to restore her beloved father to life—sets off on a quest to change time.

“I love Dragonlance and I love Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Plain and simple. Their books are my favorite fantasy series of all time.”—Joe Manganiello

Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death.

First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.

Review

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Palast, Paleswelt the 8th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. I will be spoiling the story, so if you don’t want to know anything, 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.

The story opens with Destina Rosethorn’s birthday. Her father, Gregory Rosethorn, Knight of the Crown and Lord of Castle Rosethorn, goes to collect his daughter and discuss her future. A young man’s parents, the Mayor of Ironwood, a wealthy merchant, has asked for his son, Berthal Berthalboch, Destina’s childhood friend, to marry her. This would be mutually advantageous, and in truth Destina, knowing their estate was dwindling, offered the union. They came to terms that when she was twenty-one, she would inherit the castle, so that she would maintain control over her life, then she could marry Berthel. Destina agreed and joined her mother Atieno, an Ergoth warrior of the Ackal, for a private birthday gift giving. She was given a gold chain after the old god Chislev, and her father gave her a chalice. After tasting wine for the first time in it, her mother read the dregs and saw a portent of doom, a dragon. 

This is only one of the omens her mother would see, and told Destina that fate would show three signs of blood, sword and crown before Destina’s destiny began. Atieno also saw the doom of the High Clerist’s Tower, though it didn’t stop Lord Gregory from taking his men to defend it after failing to convince the knights of the comin...

Enjoy this DC Comics reading of Dragonlance #22: Landfall! on the brave new world of Taladas, Part 1 of 4. It was written by Dan Mishkin, Illustrated by Ron Randall and Inked by Randy Elliott. It was released on August 1st, 1990. This comic is included in IDW Publishing's Dragonlance Classics Volume 3. You can buy Dragonlance Classics Volume 3 here: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonlance-Classics-3-Dan-Mishkin/dp/1631405934

https://youtu.be/XF5B0sU7VEk

About Dragonlance #22: Landfall! on the brave new world of Taladas

Part 1 of the 4-part 'Dragonring': The new continent of Taladas awaits exploration...as Riva crashes ashore in the New World for the first time.

About Dragonlance Classics Volume 3

Volume 3 collects issues #17–25 of the DC Comics series, including the storylines "A Winter's Knight," "Landfall," and "Dragonring."

Join me as I unbox Dragons of Deceit By Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in this Dragonlance Mail Time episode. Dragons of Deceit is the first novel in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy, released on August 2nd, 2022. You can buy a copy here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602557/dragons-of-deceit-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman/

https://youtu.be/btaYMT_0kGE

About Dragons of Deceit

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine—desperate to restore her beloved father to life—sets off on a quest to change time.

“I love Dragonlance and I love Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Plain and simple. Their books are my favorite fantasy series of all time.”—Joe Manganiello

Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death.

First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.

Thenol may be the largest nation on Taladas, it is also the most disfunctional being ruled through ruthlessness and scheming rather than consistent order. Let’s learn more abou the Thenolites. Buy Time of the Dragon: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/16960/Time-of-the-Dragon-2e?affiliate_id=50797

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Transcript

Cold Open

If you want a Game of Thrones style campaign, you would be right at home in Thenol.

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about The Thenolites of Taladas. 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 the Time of the Dragon boxed set for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below.

Discussion

The Kingdom of Thenol is not a place for the faint of heart. It was initially a small knot of lands, but has grown by conquest. This is not to say it is as mighty as the Imperial League of Minotaurs, or as defensive as the Confederation of Armach, because it is not. But what it lacks in military precision, it makes up more than sufficiently in mass. Mass of living and dead soldiers that care less for the significance of loss or the ultimate outcome of domination. This has, as one might expect, drawn the most crafty and cunning of leaders to its fold. The kingdom stretches to the marshes of the Blackwater Glade in the South, to the Steamwall Mountains in the East. Its Western border is the sea itself and its Northen borders are shared with Armach and the League. 

Founded by exiles of Styrllia, a province of the prae cataclius Aurim Empire of Taladas, and led by Guidan after the Great Destruction, or the Cataclysm, they traveled great distances. Guidan treated the myriad of malcontents and rebellious in his group with kindness. He ultimately resorted to granting titles to the exiles which ultimately undermined his authority, and these nobles became the true rulers, for a time. Tired of journeying, the nobles demanded an end to their exodus and against Guidan’s better instincts caved to public opinion, not that he had authority to do otherwise. New Aurim was thus founded, and the nobles took to seizing lands and struggling with each other for territory. Each wanting to rule as king, but none being able to see it done, they ended up as a tenuous united kingdom of Thenol, and forming the Senate of Lords to exact some semblance of control over each other.

The position of king was passed down to the progeny of Guidan, and up to the Secondus Catacluus, fourteen of his family had reigned. The true power lay with the Lords of the Senate however, and then only with the great lords, those with the largest land holdings. And thus the game or ruling continued, secret agreements to usurp weaker lords, or treaties to stand against the great lords were enacted, all with the end desire of power and control. The most talented and effective of these ambitious men was Bishop Trandamere. He first came into power as the head of the Temple of Hith, or Hidukel. And began the small cult, and was blessed by the god, ending up working in secret among the lords to seize power without alerting any to his true ambition. This required him to be masterful in his diplomacy and at times eliminating those who saw the truth of his schemes. Trandamere ruled for more than forty years in what became the age of true power in the kingdom of Then...

Join me as I give a spoiler-free review of Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, live! Share your thoughts on this first novel in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy. You can pick up Dragons of Deceit here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602557/dragons-of-deceit-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman/

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About Dragons of Deceit

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine—desperate to restore her beloved father to life—sets off on a quest to change time.

“I love Dragonlance and I love Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Plain and simple. Their books are my favorite fantasy series of all time.”—Joe Manganiello

Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death.

First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.

Enjoy this DC Comics reading of Dragonlance #21: A Special Issue featuring Riva Silvercrown and Myrella. It was written by Larry Ganem & Don Kraar, Illustrated by Dave Simmons & Aldrin Aw and Inked by Bob Downs & Randy Elliott. It was released on June 1st, 1990. This comic is included in IDW Publishing's Dragonlance Classics Volume 3. You can buy Dragonlance Classics Volume 3 here: https://www.amazon.com/Dragonlance-Classics-3-Dan-Mishkin/dp/1631405934

https://youtu.be/4arBmnMvMsY

About Dragonlance #21: A Special Issue featuring Riva Silvercrown and Myrella

A special interim issue featuring adventures from earlier years of two luminaries of the world of Krynn. Myrella in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Riva Silvercrown in To Sail on Sunbeams.

About Dragonlance Classics Volume 3

Volume 3 collects issues #17–25 of the DC Comics series, including the storylines "A Winter's Knight," "Landfall," and "Dragonring."

Enjoy this third preview reading of Dragons of Deceit by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is the first Classic designated Dragonlance novel, and the first in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy. It will be released on August 2nd, 2022. You can preorder a copy here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602557/dragons-of-deceit-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman/, Read the first excerpt here: https://www.polygon.com/23137990/dragonlance-dragons-of-deceit-book-excerpt-weis-hickman-interview, read the second excerpt here: https://www.ign.com/articles/dragons-of-deceit-exclusive-preview-of-the-new-dragonlance-book-trilogy, and read the third excerpt here: https://gizmodo.com/dragonlance-dragons-of-deceit-dnd-weis-hickman-excerpt-1849339587

https://youtube.com/live/Oo3NUrOniGk

About Dragons of Deceit

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman return to the unforgettable world of the New York Times bestselling Dragonlance series as a new heroine—desperate to restore her beloved father to life—sets off on a quest to change time.

Destina Rosethorn—as her name implies—believes herself to be a favored child of destiny. But when her father dies in the War of the Lance, she watches her carefully constructed world come crashing down. She loses not only her beloved father but also the legacy he has left her: the family lands and castle. To save her father, she hatches a bold plan—to go back in time and prevent his death.

First, she has to secure the Device of Time Journeying, last known to be in the possession of the spirited kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created. Destina’s quest takes her from the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin to the town of Solace and beyond, setting in motion a chain of disastrous events that threaten to divert the course of the River of Time, alter the past, and forever change the future.