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About The Dragon Well
In a tiny mountain village, Nearra and her friends meet a mysterious clairvoyant who’s had a vision of Nearra’s destiny - and a vision that could destroy them all.
The seer predicts the friends will defeat the bandit king terrorizing her village home. When they return victorious, she will reveal how Nearra can recover her identity, once and for all. Desperate to help Nearra, the group strides into battle. But soon the mission turns to disaster. Ancient powers rise before them. Secrets long buried come to light. And none of them will ever be the same.
The Dragon Well continues a new series of Dragonlance adventures written specifically for readers ages 10 and up. The series features a new group of young companions who band together for friendship and excitement during the golden age of the Dragonlance world.
Review
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Misham, Reapember the 22nd, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of The Dragon Well by Dan Willis. 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 pick up with Maddoc in Cairngorn Keep. He is pacing trying to figure out why he is unable to prompt the emergence between Asvoria and Nearra. He doesn’t quite believe Davyn has truly turned against him, and he hasn’t heard from Oddvar in a while. He sends his familiar, the falcon Shaera to find Oddvar and tell him to seek the Ice Goblins in the Vingaard mountains for aid in capturing the companions who fled Arngrim’s destruction. The companions are hiking through the mountains, knowing winter snow is days away, and decide to stop at a Trading Post they come across for provisions. The owner and operator, a dwarf named Dog, equips them and allows them to stay the night. They leave and the storm hits in mere days. They spend a week trying to pass the mountain and get lost.
Davyn goes hunting for game to eat and returns to see the party tied up by bandits. He begins to draw an arrow back in his bow when he is stopped by a mountain man and War veteran named Set-ai. This is the best character we have met in all of these books. He takes them under his wing after freeing them from the bandits and teaches them how to survive and fight. He reminds me of how I used my old Paladin in my home AD&D games once I retired him, as an old man who would help new characters. He is hunting a massive unknown beast but helps them while they pass the mountain in the snow. They finally hear the beast and part ways, as the companions travel through the night to avoid the danger. They come across a goblin camp with a human prisoner. It is the ice trolls that Oddvar made a deal with. They are arguing on whether it is the human they have to kill or bring back.
The companions attack with surprise and eventua...