The Dargonesti Review

Join me as I review The Dargonesti by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook, live! Share your thoughts on this third novel in the Dragonlance Lost Histories series, released on December 6, 2011 by Wizards of the Coast. You can buy a copy here: https://amzn.to/3XE5dA0 

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About The Dargonesti

Transported to a mysterious island, an Elven princess encounters the mystical Dargonesti and their wondrous castle beneath the sea

During a vicious Elven war, a princess of Qualinost and an elite band of warriors sail forth to rescue their countrymen from the collapsing Ergoth Empire. Their journey goes awry when a strange mist engulfs Princess Vixa's ship and transports them to a phantom island.

When the mist clears, Princess Vixa meets her captors: the fabled Dargonesti. No soul has encountered the Dargonesti or visited their city of pearl marble that rises from the sea floor—and lived to tell the tale. Princess Vixa and her companions meet this race of sea elves, experience a fantastical underwater world, face a foe counted among the legends of Krynn, and accept an impossible mission that will bring them back to the land they call home.

Review

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Kirinor, Fierswelt the 12th. My name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of The Dargonesti by Paul Thompson and Tonya Cook. 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 an interesting event that I would not have expected. Vixa Ambrodel, daughter to Lady Verhanna Kanan, and niece to the Speaker of the Sun, Silvaran, is a member of the Qualinesti military like her mother was before her. She is sent with a force to extricate their Ambassador to Ergoth, Quenavalen due to the war between Vinas Solamnus and the Emperor of Ergoth. This is the event that will create Solamnia as a nation. They are sailing by boat and after helping some locals from war profiteering brigands, they follow their lead to their elven kin only to approach a massive fog cloud. They sail into it with no other option, only to become lost and run aground. They split the group with Vixa and the captain and some soldiers going to the land to find a way off or around it, when they notice a couple of strange looking figures. They follow them into what appears to be a cave, only to be seemingly suffocated and pass out.

They wake and realize the land they ran into was a Kraken of some sort and they are inside of it. They attack it and realize they are far underwater as they are expelled into the ocean. The majority of them are saved by dolphins who somehow provide shells that allow the elves to breathe underwater. They travel to an underground city and find it populated by sea elves! They knew old children's stories about sea elves, but they never believed them to be real. 

They are met by Coryphene, the first servant of their divine queen. They are in the city of Urione, which is separate from Watermere. We eventually discover that Queen Uriona, the fourth daughter to the Speaker of the Moon had no prospects for rulership, so she studied magic, at the cost of her mind. She broke off with a contingent of other Dargonesti and formed this city based on visi...