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This article is from the Dragonlance FAQ, by Stig Erik Sandø stig@ii.uib.no with numerous contributions by others.

9. The other questions that frequently appear (Dragonlance)

a. ? Should I read Dr. of Summer Flame after Dr. of Spring Dawning?
* Morten Brattbakk, a prominent dinosaur says:
* Although the title page of DoSF says Chronicles volume 4, the book
* is not directly tied to the original three books. Chronologically it
* is set about 30 years after the end of Dragons of Spring Dawning
* (DoSD), and a lot of things have happened during that time. Jumping
* straight from DoSD to DoSF would be confusing. So would going
* straight from Test of the Twins to DoSF without reading The Second
* Generation. Here's my suggested reading order for Weis and Hickman's
* DL novels (which by most people are considered the essential DL books.)
*
* 1. CHRONICLES
* -DoAT, DoWN, and DoSD
* 2. LEGENDS
* -TotT, WotT, and TotT
* 3. -The Second Generation
* 4. -Dragons of Summer Flame

b. ? In which order should I read the books?
* Check the above question for Morten's suggestion which most people
* in the newsgroup seems to agree with. A few people mean that
* The Second Generation and DoSF should not be read at all.

c. ? Which non-W&H books are worth reading?
* Morten continues to enlighten us:
* That depends on who you ask, some says all DL books are worth
* reading, some says all non-W&H books should be burned. Posts on afdl
* has positive and negative criticism for almost all books, but the
* following trends appear: Most people like Richard A. Knaak's "The
* Legend of Huma" and it's sequels "Kaz, the Minotaur" and "Land of
* the Minotaurs." Mary Kirchoff is also quite popular, her "Defenders
* of Magic" trilogy and "The Black Wing" have received good
* criticism. So has the comedy "Lord Toede" by Jeff Grubb. All the
* other books have their supporters and enemies. Even W&H books
* published after the original 6 novels are not recommended by
* everyone. "The Second Generation" has had it's fair share of
* negative criticism and "DoSF" has received lots of negative
* criticism.

d. ? What is the Fifth Age?
* Check Steve's Fifth Age faq at <http://www.mag7.com/dlance.htm>

e. ? Dragonlance is not AD&D is it?
* It might be, and it might not be. Some people see Dragonlance as a
* gaming world while others see it as literature existing on it's
* own. The general rule is however that AD&D specific topics and
* questions should go to rec.games.frp.dnd, and so should all questions
* about gaming rules, levels and stats for DL characters. (ie. You ask
* the people at rec.games.frp.dnd for Raistlin's level at page 354 in
* Dragons of Autumn Twilight :)

f. ? Is Tanis gay, hetero, or bisexual?
* Mattie's theory is available at:
* <http://rembrandt.uib.no/Dragonlands/Weblanthas/Library/Lore/tanisgay.shtml>

g. ? What happened to Gilthanas and Silvara
* They got older. This is one of the great questions of DL which there
* have been posted many short stories about. It has been claimed that
* their fate will not be published by TSR.

h. ? Who helped Gilthanas and Silvara at Sancrist?
* This is one of great mysteries, and a mystery we hope to solve or
* find a possible solution for.

i. ? Was Lord Soth a potted plant?
* Allow me to quote Don Perrin:
* "As an authority on this whole 'Potted Plant' sideline, I must
* correct some misconceptions that have arisen. Lord Soth is, in fact,
* an African Violet in a terracotta pot, about six inches wide at the
* top. One may think otherwise, but the truth is the truth, no matter
* what you may wish for yourself."

j. ? Can women become Knights of Solamnia?
* According to Astinus (page 86 in DoSD) a noble woman was a knight of
* Solamnia during the third Dragonwar and she rose to become a knight
* of the Sword.

k. ? Do knights of the rose gain new spells?
* They usually learn to spell at school. (This is a game specific
* question, and in my honest opinion it is entirely up to the game
* master. I myself (in those seldom moments I gm) allow it.)

l. ? Were the kingpriest evil?
* RM <remoore@nando.net> says:
* 'Laurana asked why Good didn't win ultimately, saying that she felt
* it was deserved after all they went through. Paladine responds by
* saying that too much good can be a problem. He then says something
* like, "You know when there was the most good in the world? Right
* before the Cataclysm. The Kingpriest was so obsessed with
* exterminating all things that were unlawful and 'sinful' that he
* almost destroyed all the other kinds of good in the world. We had to
* stop him. So the Cataclysm occurred." '
*
* Most evidence point towards that the kingpriest lost his sense of
* reality and his saneness and it is doubtful that he thought of what
* effect his and his church really had.

m. ? Has the Istarian empire any parallells?
* The medieval catholic church is a relatively close parallell with
* it's holy wars, meddling in local affairs, conquest and control. A
* theory/compilation may be found at:
* <http://rembrandt.uib.no/Dragonlands/Weblanthas/Library/Lore/istar_priest.shtml>

n. ? What is Taladas?
* A strange continent which people have yet to uncover all the secrets
* of. It lies in the nothern hemisphere of Krynn on the other side of
* the globe from Ansalon. It is a continent that was violently split
* by the cataclysm, and whose most powerful nation is the League of
* Minotaurs. More information can be found in the TSR box set
* Time of the Dragon as well as the upcoming Taladas in the Fifth Age
* world wide web site.

o. ? When is the Dragonlance movie coming?
* Read the DL Movie FAQ at
* <http://www.vianet.net.au/~benc/dlmovie/dlmvfaq.html>

p. ? Where is the story of what happened at Ice Wall?
* In Dragons of Winter Night you have a poem in the start of the book,
* and in the first Tales Trilogy, first book (The Magic of Krynn)
* there is a story named "Finding the Faith" by Mary Kirchoff which
* tells the story from the Ice Folk's cleric Raggart's view.

q. ? Where were the Towers of High Sorcery located?
* The known ones are of course Wayreth, Palanthas and Istar. We also
* knows that one was located in the Ruins (Goodlund) and the last one
* lies near Daltigoth. [DL Adventures p.29]

 

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