Sacred Fire Review

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About Sacred Fire

The final title in the historical Kingpriest trilogy.This titles completes the exploration of a key part of Dragonlance history. The era explored in this novel, although referred to frequently throughout many Dragonlance novels, is being finely detailed for the first time. In addition, this title features popular characters that appear throughout the Dragonlance Legends trilogy.

Review

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Majetag, Majetag the 5th. My name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of Sacred Fire by Chris Pierson. 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 links. 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 begin with the scholar Varen leading an expedition into the ruins of Losarcum. His mercenary men are worried about a ghost that is said to haunt these ruins, but Varen wants to find his fame and fortune by excavating the glass ruins of the Tower of High Sorcery. They enter the ruins to be confronted by a wild Cathan MarSevrin who kills everyone but the scholar. Varen travels to Cathan’s sister, Wentha, and tells her of her brother being alive. Together they travel to the capital to tell the Kingpriest.

They arrive in the harbor with gray sails, which freaks everyone out as it's a superstition of an ill omen. Lady Elsa, the Revered Daughter of Paladine, is informed about Wentha and tells the Kingpriest, who sends her to collect the Grand Master of the Knights of the Divine Hammer, who is now Tithian. Together they greet Wentha and her two sons Rath and Tancred, then report to the Kingpriest. He is silent about the news that Varen shares and has them all to dinner to discuss it further. He seems unsure what to do, as he sent Cathan to his death to Losarcum, and Cathan returned to renounce the Kingpriest and his role as the Grand Master. 

Then we go to Cathan who has the dream about the burning hammer falling on Istar again, the first he has had since leaving Istar. He wakes to find Fistandantilus standing nearby. Fisty wanted Cathan to save the Kingpriests' procession that was headed to him in the Ruins of Losarcum. Initially Cathan refused then relented when he discovered that his sister and her two sons were there as well. A massive caterpillar abomination attacked the caravan, and a couple died, but as Cathan ravaged in, like Sir Lancelot from the film Excalibur, ragged, full bearded and wild, they all defeated the beast. 

They stayed for a bit with Cathan talking with Beldinas, showing him the result of his war with the Wizards of High Sorcery, and the innocents caught in between. Baldinas cried, truly sorry but not for the war. Since Cathan has been away, the Kingpriests started targeting his own people through telepathy. Anyone with a bad thought was taken away. He re-instituted the gladiator games after the tournament Wentha put on in his behalf, and he even reinstated slavery for all those not perfectly good according to him. As the procession slowly began returning to Istar with Cathan in tow,