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About The Dying Kingdom

The second title in an all-new Dragonlance series for young listeners! The Dying Kingdom continues a new series of Dragonlance adventures written specifically for listeners ages 10 and up. Sized to fit the young listener market, the series features a new band of young companions who band together for friendship and excitement during the golden age of the Dragonlance world.

Origins award-winning author Stephen D. Sullivan has just finished the novelization for the motion picture Thunderbirds. Over the past four years, Steve has published more than a dozen books (including ghost-writing for a well-known juvenile detective series), plus anthologies, comics, and short stories. His previous Dragonlance novel was The Dragon Isles.

Review

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Misham, Reapember the 15th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of The Dying Kingdom by Stephen D. Sullivan. 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 where we left off. The companions are traveling to Arngrim with the map Sindri discovered to seek the aid of the wizards therein, known as The Scarlet Brethren, to assist in getting Nearra’s memory back. Maddoc is still using Oddvar and the three goblins to do his bidding, though now, it is to follow the companions at a distance, and when they are near Arngrim, Oddvar is to enter the city first and garner cooperation from the Scarlet Brethren to test the companions. The weather in the mountains is terrible, it is raining and completely foggy. 

They come across a broken down home where Catriona is attacked by what seems to be a metal lion-man. After nearly being killed before her friends come to rescue her, they discover the lion man is actually Prince Alric Arngrim who was searching for a group of bandits called Kokar’s Band, who are believed to be deserters from a regiment of the Dark Queen’s Dragonarmies. The bandits regularly attack the city Kingdom of Arngrim, and Alric lost many of his companions in this latest mission. They stay the night to join Alric on his return home in the morning. In the morning they are attacked by Kokar’s band, and Nearra is nearly killed, and the group is nearly defeated before they rout the bandits. Alric chases after them, and the companions stay together, checking on Nearra. 

Catriona chases after Alric when they see Nearra is going to be fine, and he is picking off the stragglers of the bandits. He is clearly attracted to Catriona, but she has a horrible sense of self and little to no self confidence, so she refutes every compliment given. They all arrive at the city of Arngrim as Oddvar is leaving the Scarlet Brethren with their agreement to test the children in an...