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The Wayward Knights Review

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Join me as I review The Wayward Knights by Roland Green, live! Share your thoughts on this seventh volume of seven in the Dragonlance Warriors series, released by TSR, INC. on January 1, 1997. You can buy a copy here: https://amzn.to/4l0C8cs 

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About The Wayward Knights

The heroic conclusion to the tale of Sir Pirvan the Wayward!

Despite his humble beginnings, Sir Pirvan has managed to ascend to the highest orders of the knights of Solamnia. Along the way, he has become known as the founder of an obscure group of knights whose own dubious pasts have helped to dub them the Wayward Knights. On the verge of a well-deserved retirement, Sir Pirvan once again answers the call of duty and the only allies he can rely on now are the Wayward Knights he himself recruited so many years ago.

Roland J. Green is the author of the Starcruiser Shenandoah and Wandor series and numerous Conan novels, and is coauthor (with Jerr Pournelle) of the Jannisaries series.

The Warriors series details the exploits of the heroes and villains of the War of the Lance.

Notes:
  • In the fourth book chronicling the adventures of Sir Pirvan, a Solamnic knight who started out as a thief, there are two threads of development in the tale.
    • One is of Sir Pirvan’s adventure to discover and eliminate the threat on Suivinari island which menaced human and minotaur sailors who had a rare, mutual, if unspoken, agreement, to share the island as a replenishing station for their ships.
      • Pirvan and co. investigating a magical threat on a volcanic island
      • The first is Pirvan battles an evil wizard to take back an island
      • The other thread involves Gerik, son of Pirvan, who had to defend their home, Tirabot Manor, against minions of the kingpriest who would like to eliminate those who practiced true virtues instead of paying lip service.
        • while his son defends their home against imminent attack. We’ve got knights, wizards, minotaur, elves, everything!
        • The book went through many events without giving a proper account of events and background. Instead, the narration is given through eyewitness accounts of the characters but very little explanation of what the character thinks and knows and thereby how they came to the conclusions they made. This is a maddening pattern. People unfamiliar with the world of Krynn would be unable to follow the book at all. This applies to all four books.
        • There were at least 200 named, main characters who had the same, interchangeable personality. Some even had the same names because Green had the characters name their children after already-existing characters. This wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t interact with their namesakes but no one got left behind in this story, so they’re all just there. 
        • Almost every chapter ended with too people falling into each other’s arms.
        • why the minotaurs attacked The Golden Cup and the other hand merchant boats, especially when Green went out of his way to mention that minotaurs didn’t regularly do that
        • He doesn’t give a believable one for why House Dirivan attacked Tiabot manor either – some girl hiding sheep is not enough to hire a small army to attack your neighbours unlawfully
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