It began as a pirate cove and was built into the sprawling jewel of Solamnia. Let’s learn more about the history of Palanthas. Buy Palanthas: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/219097/Palanthas-SAGA?affiliate_id=50797 

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Transcript

Cold Open

It was at the end of the Time of Light in the Age of Dreams, that the seeds of palanthas were sown.

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about the history of Palanthas. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this 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. I am referencing the Palanthas Dramatic Supplement for this episode. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below.

Discussion

For over a hundred years, the human empire of Ergoth fought over the borders and mineral rights with the new dwarven city of Thorbardin. This would come to be known as the War of the Mountain. These skirmishes affected the peaceful citizens in the surrounding lands, forcing them to seek safety elsewhere, and in 2085 Prae Cataclius, Captain Agril Stargazer had heard tales of the legendary Dragon Isles, and in an effort to flee the constant war and relocate himself and many other refugees, he sailed out from Tarsis on the Bright Horizon, seeking those wondrous isles. Fate however seemed to have intervened and after two days of following the coast of Ansalon north, they hit a storm out of the history  books. The Bright Horizon was manned with veteran seamen, but this storm had the marks of the gods on its back. It tossed the Bright Horizon around like a child's plaything with its waves, hundreds of feet in height.

The storm raged for days. It was a miracle the Bright Horizon wasn’t swallowed whole by the tempest of the sea. Nearly half of the crew has been thrown overboard. As the hold slowly filled with water, the crew resigned themselves to their impending doom. But then, in the midst of the violent storm, the lookout who had lashed himself to the mast witnessed land on the horizon. He saw between the rising and falling waves a stark rocky shoreline, and realized that the Bright Horizon was being pushed directly towards it. It took the Captain and three other men to attempt steering the ship through a small gap in the rocky coastline. Twenty feet of the keel was torn free by the storm, and shallow, rocky shoreline. Wave after wave crashed on top of the seamen as water flooded into the hold. But miraculously, the sinking Bright Horizons wedged herself between large rocks and the towering cliff face not three hundred yards from a rocky beach.

Inside the gap, the waters were calm, though the storm raged outside its perimeter. The crew and passengers transferred all salvageable goods to the shore, for fear the low tide would pull the wreckage back out to the open sea. Once ashore, they were stunned at their surroundings. They had landed in a stark, grassy plain, surrounded on all sides by towering mountains. This strange land featured a single tall tower, surrounded by a forest. As Captain Stargazer approached the tower, he walked into a grove and he was struck with waves of fear that rivaled the hopelessness they felt for days in the storm. He abandoned his attempt at approaching the tower and  declared to his crew and passengers that their quest was complete. They had reached the Dragon Isles!

After days of reading his sextant and consulting his ch...