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The Annotated Legends: Test of the Twins Review
https://youtu.be/PpLCJ-vkSHg
Join me as I review The Annotated Legends: Test of the Twins, live! Share your thoughts on the continuation of the best selling trilogy and this new annotated edition. I share the insights I gleaned, how the annotations presented a new perspective and why I still love this novel.
Transcript
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Majetag, Palesweltthe 17th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review The Annotated Legends: Test of the Twins. 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 my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links 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.
Book One gives us a vision of Raistlin’s success. This is a moment in time that did occur, but can be altered simply because Tasselhoff exists and is traveling with Caramon through time. They arrive near Solace in the future to discover it covered in ash. To their dismay, everything is dead and the raging magical lightning storm is destroying the land. They arrive in Solace and discover a mass grave and Tika’s tombstone. Caramon is torn apart until he sees his own skeletal corpse in front of it. He realized that he built this in the future, that they traveled too far with the time traveling device and that Raistlin’s hourglass constellation is in the sky, destroying the gods and the earth simultaneously.
They decide to try and prevent this future but not knowing how, they use the device to travel to the forest of Wayreth which attacks them Evil Dead style. Caramon shouts out to Par-Salien and the trees lead them to the Tower of Wayreth which is now in shambles and nearly destroyed, something the cataclysm couldn’t even do. When they climb up to the top they see Par-Salien, half turned to stone, forced to witness the end of the gods and time as retribution for what he did to Raistlin in his test. Raistlin is mocking him and cursing him to pain. Astinus is there as well and he chronicles the end of the world, with Paladine’s death at the hands of Raistlin, but not before counseling Raistlin that he destroys everything as he destroys the gods and he will be utterly alone in a void as evil itself cannot create ife. Raistlin will be trapped by his own ambition. For a split second we witness Raistlin’s sorrow and realization of this fact, telling me that he is not in total control, that Fistandantilus’ soul is also urging him on.
Either way, Caramon insists that he can and will change time and enter the abyss, preventing Raistlin from leaving it to fix this future, and the first book is over.
Annotations
* Tracy hopes people will relate real world problems to the fiction he writes. Not to propose answers but to provide context or perspectives* Chapter 2 was a view of Caramon’s consequences to failure. * Caramon and Raistlin are addicts. Caramon is a recovering alcoholic and Raistlin is addicted to Magic.* Tracy doesn't see the moons of Krynn as gods but rather symbols of the power that magic taps* Astinus’ Book looks like the Book of Life kept in heaven as well as the seven seals of the book of revelation
Book two picks up with Lord Soth, retelling his history and fate. It also shares his desire for Kitiara upon her death. He is tired of her mortal yearnings and desires her for himself.
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https://youtu.be/PpLCJ-vkSHg
Join me as I review The Annotated Legends: Test of the Twins, live! Share your thoughts on the continuation of the best selling trilogy and this new annotated edition. I share the insights I gleaned, how the annotations presented a new perspective and why I still love this novel.
Transcript
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Majetag, Palesweltthe 17th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review The Annotated Legends: Test of the Twins. 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 my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links 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.
Book One gives us a vision of Raistlin’s success. This is a moment in time that did occur, but can be altered simply because Tasselhoff exists and is traveling with Caramon through time. They arrive near Solace in the future to discover it covered in ash. To their dismay, everything is dead and the raging magical lightning storm is destroying the land. They arrive in Solace and discover a mass grave and Tika’s tombstone. Caramon is torn apart until he sees his own skeletal corpse in front of it. He realized that he built this in the future, that they traveled too far with the time traveling device and that Raistlin’s hourglass constellation is in the sky, destroying the gods and the earth simultaneously.
They decide to try and prevent this future but not knowing how, they use the device to travel to the forest of Wayreth which attacks them Evil Dead style. Caramon shouts out to Par-Salien and the trees lead them to the Tower of Wayreth which is now in shambles and nearly destroyed, something the cataclysm couldn’t even do. When they climb up to the top they see Par-Salien, half turned to stone, forced to witness the end of the gods and time as retribution for what he did to Raistlin in his test. Raistlin is mocking him and cursing him to pain. Astinus is there as well and he chronicles the end of the world, with Paladine’s death at the hands of Raistlin, but not before counseling Raistlin that he destroys everything as he destroys the gods and he will be utterly alone in a void as evil itself cannot create ife. Raistlin will be trapped by his own ambition. For a split second we witness Raistlin’s sorrow and realization of this fact, telling me that he is not in total control, that Fistandantilus’ soul is also urging him on.
Either way, Caramon insists that he can and will change time and enter the abyss, preventing Raistlin from leaving it to fix this future, and the first book is over.
Annotations
* Tracy hopes people will relate real world problems to the fiction he writes. Not to propose answers but to provide context or perspectives* Chapter 2 was a view of Caramon’s consequences to failure. * Caramon and Raistlin are addicts. Caramon is a recovering alcoholic and Raistlin is addicted to Magic.* Tracy doesn't see the moons of Krynn as gods but rather symbols of the power that magic taps* Astinus’ Book looks like the Book of Life kept in heaven as well as the seven seals of the book of revelation
Book two picks up with Lord Soth, retelling his history and fate. It also shares his desire for Kitiara upon her death. He is tired of her mortal yearnings and desires her for himself.