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Review

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review The Lost Chronicles: Dragons of the Dwarven Depths. I will be spoiling the story, so if you don’t want to know it, stop watching now! Don’t forget to like and subscribe to this channel, ring the bell, and you can support this channel by becoming a Patron on Patreon, a Member of this YouTube channel, and you can pick up Dragonlance Gaming materials, using my affiliate link. All links are in the description below. 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 is my second reading of Dragons of the Dwarven Depths. My first was when they were originally released, and that was after I had read around a hundred Dragonlance Novels and played the Dungeons & Dragons and SAGA version of the game. I felt like I knew the trajectory of the Heroes of the Lance and I was immediately struck by a perceived tonal difference in how the characters spoke, interacted and projected their sensibilities in the world. Though I enjoyed the story, and the spirit of its creation, filling in the gaps of the original Chronicles Trilogy, I felt as though something was off.

This reading that I just finished today was a dramatically different take. I had just finished reading The Annotated Chronicles: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, and right off of that novel, I felt all of my perceptions in my first reading were completely wrong. I was judging the characters after having read through their character arcs and most had died. I read through their children's stories as the Dragonlance world completely changed a number of times, so my recollection of them in their early careers of adventuring was wrong.

I do have to say, though I know this isn’t a children's book, I did miss the chapter heading illustrations that were featured in the Chronicles Trilogy. Besides that, I was drawn into not only the meshing of the novel with the original trilogy and the original modules, which were slightly different due in part to Verminaards death in Dragons of Autumn Twilight, but not in the module in the same timelines. The way the authors addressed this potential problem, reminded me of how years later, Director Mike Flanagan would reconcile the differences between Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining film, and Stephen King’s The Shining and Doctor Sleep novels with his Doctor Sleep film. They turned to creative writing and altered the narrative just enough to pull you deeper into the mythology and world, while tipping their caps at the earlier released sources.

This book is broken into two books, much like Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The first book deals with Dray-Yan, an Aurak Draconian who hatched a scheme with Grag a Draconian commander to pose as the Dragon Highlord Verminaard so he can be in a position power and go after the prisoners of Pax Tharkas and heroes that rescued them. The Refugees led by the Heroes of the Lance realize they are temporarily safe but will soon be trapped in the coming winter and decide to search for the lost kingdom of Thorbardin. Raistlin Majere is convinced he can find the key to Thorbardin in Skullcap, an ancient fortress of Fistandantilus’ from the Dwarfga...