Christopher Lee played some pretty epic villains such as Saruman and Darth Tyranus/Count Dooku. Rest in peace

Reading The Legend of Huma has rekindled an old idea of mine: adventures during the Third Dragon War. There’s little actual information about this time, so it is necessary to dig around various materials to find what is needed to accurately describe this time in history. Much like my write up on Fistandatilus, I have looked to the novels, The Legend of Huma to be precise, in order to get a feel for the era.

Because the novel is not meant for gaming there is a need to somehow incorporate game mechanics into the story. In this post, which I will hopefully update over the next couple of days, I will attempt a description of this era and its movers and shakers. The idea is that the background material will be sufficient to create an interesting campaign, where the PCs can run into the luminaries of the time. I am linking to the Dragolance Nexus Lexicon, as it is full of really good descriptions of characters etc.

Galan Dracos

Galan Dracos was the most powerfrul renegade mage during the Third Dragonwar. He served the Queen of Darkness in her attempts to conquor Krynn as her own. The Legend of Huma suggests that Dracos betrayed Takhisis in order to ascend to godhood. apparently the Queen knew of his doublecross and he was forced to use his magic in order to escape her wratch. The master mage ceased to exists and was thereby able to escape Takhisis’ revenge.

Galan Dracos resided in a citadal that built on the border between the Abyss and Krynn. Here he conducted his heinous experiments with his  renegdade followers, while at the same time directing the war. The Legend of Huma indicates that towards the end, Galan Dracos left war efforts to the Warlord Crynus.

Dracos was known to use a bone white staff. this staff has lost when he was defeated and the citadel ruined. The fate befell the green emerald sphere he used to open the gate to the Abyss. However, the sphere was almost repaired years later, when the an elven renegade mage sought out the legacy of Galan Dracos.

Huma Dragonbane

Kazigahthi de-Orilg

Magius

Crynus

Charr

Gwyneth

More to come…

That is all.

I have been invited to play D&D again. Apparently an old Mystara campaign is resurfacing and might actually come to fruition.

That is all.

Moody as ever

I’ll admit it; I really did not like the Dragonlance 5th Age. Dragons of Summer Flame left me pretty depressed and the subsequent novels did not make me feel better at all. Some of ths changed with the release of the War of Souls, however, so many things were destroyed or radically changed that I never really felt it.

Fast forward to today. I am trying to reread War of Souls with a more open mind. Right now, I am in the middle of Dragons of a fallen Sun, and Silvanesti is about to go the way of the dinosaur – one of the things I really disliked back in the day. Today though, I find the story much more compelling and much more sensible. Obviously the elven nation is corrupted by its own reflection gazing habits and refusal to join the world. One could argue that Silvanesti has to fall in order to rise again.

Without going into a bigger debate here, I want to emphasize that I am really starting to enjoy the War of Souls trilogy. There’s no doubt that it is a step away from the Chronicles and even the Legends, but despite the whole second cataclysm I think this is not a bad way of moving the world forward. Unfortunately we will never get to know what happens after the Dark Disciple trilogy, but the scene was definitely set for some interesting adventures.

Now on Netflix. It’s better than Christmas and new year’s combined.

I can’t figure out if this show rocks, or it’s a corny over the top horror show. I was pretty entertained by season one, so I’m going for season two as well.

How cool is this?