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About The Ultimate Helm

The exciting climax to the Cloakmaster Cycle. Teldin Moore battles for control of the great ship SpellJammer amid myriad plots and conspiracies. Political intrigue mixes with fantastic elements for an explosive ending to the series. 

Review

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Kirinor, Paleswelt the 24th, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review of The Ultimate Helm by Russ T. Howard. 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 begin with the end of the last novel, and the Spelljammer charging Teldin’s ship Julia. The Spelljammer kept asking the question, Are you Worthy? To Teldin, who answered yes, but Julia crashed into the spelljammer nonetheless. Immediately we learn that the coming of the Cloakmaster is foretold in Beholder prophesy aboard the Spelljammer, and that a dark time will be the result. A Dark time that everyone wants to avoid, and thus wants to kill the cloakmaster to prevent it or take ownership of the cloak to control the ship. The Neogi immediately attack Teldin’s surviving crew, but he is joined and protected by the human collective led by CassaRoc the Mighty, a human warrior. They battle the neogi and defeat them, then travel to the centaurs tower for drinks. At this point the Illithids, Neogi and Beholders learn of the Cloakmasters’ presence and intend to destroy him at their earliest opportunity. Teldin runs into Cwelanas from Krynn. She is the elf first mate that Teldin had feelings for from the first novel Beyond the Moons, and it turns out she had feelings for him too. Estriss is also aboard the ship with the Illithids, though he is not trusted by his people, and is still searching for information.

We discover that there is a lich named Romar or The Fool aboard that also wants to kill Teldin, so his enemies are numerous in the city that is on the Spelljammer. Teldin joined the Human collective and connected with many of the other races that inhabit the Spelljammer to form an alliance to stop the evil races from claiming the Ultimate Helm and taking control of the Spelljammer. They form the Alliance of the Cloak. Now Teldin believes he is finally realizing his quest and now needs to defend his position long enough to take command of the Spelljammer and possibly stop the second inhuman war from continuing.

The Beholders and their allies begin attacking the Neogi tower, working on ridding themselves of their rivals before claiming the cloak. The Neogi had a spy in the form of Cwelanas, who was tortured and turned against Teldin when she was kidnapped from Krynn. She entered Teldin’s room to murder him, but was fighting her instincts the whole time and when Teldin discovered it was neogi magic behind it, he had the human wizard remove the magic surrounding Cwelanas. While she was healing The Fool attacked the human tower with his undead horde of rats and some undead neogi.