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Originally posted by Jotin:
Where does the dragonlance chronicles book fall into all of this? timeline wise?
Which is the book where they actually use the dragonlance? I haven't read these in so long and my memory is terrible. I may have to see if i still have them somewhere or pick one up. Where's a good place to hop into the series?
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the Chronicals were written first, most of the other books are set in the past in a briefly mentioned areas from the other books, ie the cataclysm, the first war of the lance
The Irda is the first book I've read from a historical standpoint, then would probably be the legend of Huma, and it's sequels. Then the ones around the cataclysm era would fall next, several books, some great, some mediocre, some poor. the Twin's series jaunts in before during and after the cataclysm but begins and ends after the first Chronicles. Then there's the Preludes, which provides background on the main characters, including Kitiara, then Chronicles, then the twins trilogy, then the draconian books, then dragons of summer flame, then the new books (2000-present) that write the dragons of summer flame out of the setting, and I think there's been some new books in the new setting.
there are short story compilations that fall all over the place, and books that explore various characters, like the pirate and her minotaur henchman, lord toede, the draconians, etc it can be rather hard to gauge when things occur within the world except by reading them... come to think of it someone's probably written a web page with the chronology all figured out (it was either DL or FR that caused TSR to say "don't ask us, there's so many authors working on so many different timelines there's no way we could put things in order chronologically"
Legend of Huma contains the forging and use of the first dragonlances, IIRC they are first used by the Heroes of the Lance in Dragons of Winter Night, and again in Dragons of Spring Dawning