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Review
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Kirinor, Newkolt the 26th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Kaz the Minotaur. 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 a band of minotaurs hunting Kaz. They believe he is a coward because of a lie about how he killed the Ogre master he was a slave to. They are led by Molok, an Ogre who is surprisingly skilled at manipulating the individual minotaurs into thinking and acting as he wants them to. They have traveled much of southern Ansalon and decide to travel north, believing Kaz to be returning to Vingaard Keep because of a bounty notice the Knights of Solamnia have been posting about him.
The notice states that Kaz is wanted for crimes against Solamnia and as Kaz saw it, he could not believe it. Many other names that he fought the Dark Queen beside were also on the list. It turns out the Knighthood had somehow gone awry in the years after the war. They turned from helping the displaced to making them serfs under their rule. There is rumor that Lord Oswal is ill and Bennet will take the Knighthood over.
What’s great about this so far is that we get to see into the mind of a veteran who is suffering from PTSD. He tries his best to live up to the expectations of his dead best friend, Huma, and at times struggles against his own nature and societal teachings. He has met up with a kender named Delbin Knotwillow, who is young in his wandering, but has deferred to Kaz for some of his behaviors. There is also a white dreadwolf hunting them, who in a dream asks about Galen Dracos’ citadel.
Outside Xak Tsaroth, which in Prae Cataclius was a massive trade city, Kaz runs into remnants of the Dark Queens army turned mercenaries. They chase him into a wood where Kaz meets them in battle, but then a patrol of Solamnic Knights ride in and chase them both. Kaz gets away by accidentally leading the Knights into even more mercenaries. Once Delbin finds him, they head north, toward Vingaard Keep as suspected by his pursuers. He is obligated to get to the bottom of the bounty notice. He arrives at a small settlement where he is tricked into looking for goblins that turn out to be the minotaur hunters. They capture him, and Kaz realizes he tutored two of them, brother and sister Hecar and Helati. They believe the honorable tales of Kaz, even though the rest don't. A cleric of Mishakal from the settlement rescues Kaz from the minotaurs and they travel across a river to escape them, but Kaz’s mount is struck by a spear from his pursuers and he succumbs to the power of the river current and passes out, swept downstream.
Kaz wakes in a tree hut owned by Sardal Crystalthorn, a Qualinesti elf wizard. The Elves discovered his dying body and brought him here. Sardal has been healing him for weeks. Kaz tells his story and Sardal gives him a dwarven crafted ...