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Old 04-16-2003, 12:55 AM   #8
Luvian
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Join Date: June 27, 2001
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Originally posted by Ken Rauhl:
thank you [img]smile.gif[/img] you are right about the last age. it was REALLY messed up. another thing I forgot to mention was, the authors seem so desperate that they want to make money off Krynn that they dont give the world a rest. there was always war, there was never a peaceful place and time for our old friends to have some rest. Qualinasti was invaded and ravished again and beaten so badly, finally, into the a lake. sorry for the plot spoiling, but you really shouldnt read it. Laurana died a violent death, so did Tanis, so did Tas. I dont know what happened between Palin and Usha, but judging by palin's cynical state of mind in the War of Souls series, you know nothing good happened. Caramon was the luckiest of them all, and he died without any of his sons by his funeral. At laest he died at home.

my little conspiracy theory is, the authors are too afraid of trying new characters, thus they revive the old topics, continuing the orgininal tales over and over, until they turned the original into tasteless. because there was always a new evil after every happy ending, and every struggle against the new evil requested a sacrifice, and every sacrifice had to be bigger than the previous ones in order to make the book worth reading. thus Krynn would never have peace. all the sacrifices made by the fathers would not dminish or even delay the arise of another evil at the sons' time.

back to R.A. Salvatore, well, I like a LOT about his morals too. I pretty much agree with most of them. about chivalry, defending the weak and rejecting evil. sometimes I am not required with certain skills to do what I believe, say if I see an armed robbery, I probally stay the hell out of the way. but Drizzt, in his world, it is different. he is the righteous and self righteous ass kicker that represents all that I couldnt do. plus, it is good to see that certain ideal of good and kindness are common, and are played out from time to time.
Damn! I was hoping Tanis and Laurana would get to live in peace. It suck that all the characters got killed. I also like it when authors write about the old heroes's childrens, I was hoping they could become legends too. Look like most didn't.

So, what happen at the end of the 5th age? Who is left alive? Did the good guys win or what?

As for your conspiracy theory, while it's possible that they are trying to get as much money out of the Dragonlance world as they can. They do have other characters. They created their own world that is not asociated to dungeon and dragon. Here is an example or a novel. So my own conspiracy therory is that they are trying to kill the Dragonlance world. It might be because they don't want TSR to bother them with Dragonlance again so they can concentrate on their on world, or maybe they feel Dragonlance is a competitor to their new world and need to get rid off, I don't now, but I'm sure they butchered it on purpose.
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