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First detailed in the seventh Dragonlance module Dragons of Light, the Dragonlances were made in two varieties, mounted and footman’s. Let’s learn a little bit more about the Dragonlances!

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Transcript

With Silver Arm and Silver PoolAnd Hammer to forge Wyrms’ doomDragons hid these mighty toolsThe last True Pool lies in this roomThe Arm is lost to unknown fateThe Hammer lies past Dwarvengate

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about the Dragonlances. 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. I am referencing DL7 Dragons of Light and every Dungeons & Dragons edition Dragonlance campaign sourcebook for this information.

Discussion

They are the namesake of the campaign and yet they don’t appear until DL7 Dragons of Light in 1985, a full 16 months after the first Dragonlance product, DL1 Dragons of Despair. Before the War of the Lance modules were released, Tracy Hickman had spent countless hours building out a backstory for the world. He created mythic heroes and gods. Creation myths and artifacts of legend. Originally referred to by the Evil Dragons as the Lances of Doom and by it’s wielders as the Spear of Paladine or Great Lance, the Dragonlances were one such artifact that became integral in the defeat of Takhisis and her armies in the Third Dragon War, the War of the Lance and finally in the War of Souls. And though the purpose of the Dragonlance was to defeat the Queen of Darkness, you cannot tell the story of the Dragonlances without starting from the beginning with Huma and the Silver Dragon, Heart. Now, there are many versions of Huma’s story, what follows is the original legend. 

In the Age of Dreams the Third Dragon War lasted nearly 300 years! Near the end of that time a young Knight of Solamnia named Huma Dragonbane of Eldor undertook a quest to aid the people of Krynn. He soon realized that he could not stop the devastation of the Dragons. So he prayed to Paladine, who sent a white stag before Huma on a hunt. Huma was overcome by the majesty of the creature, that even though he was exhausted and hungry, he could not bring himself to destroy it. Insead he followed the stag which ultimately led him to a quiet grove. Huma met a beautiful woman named Gwyneth there, who eased his pain. He fell in love with her and she with him, though she refused his pledges of loyalty for months! They rejoiced in their love, until the woman revealed her true form to Huma, that of a Silver Dragon. She loved Huma too much to continue lying to him. Rather than rejecting her for her deception, he accepted her in his love. She prayed to Paladine to grant her the woman's form forever, willingly giving up her magic and long lifespan of a dragon to live in the world with Huma. 

Paladine said he would grant her wish, if they could accept the future that the request would create. The future of the Queen of Darkness and her dragons taking control of the world, and forcing innocence into misery and destruction. However, if she would remain a dragon, Paladine would lead Huma to the Dragonlances,