"Life-long friends, they went their seperate ways. Now they are together again, though each holds secrets from the others in his heart. They speak of a world shadowed with rumors of war. They speak of tales of strange monsters, creatures of myth, creatures of legend. They do not speak of their secrets. Not then. Not until a chance encounter with a beautiful, sorrowful woman, who bears a magical crystal staff, draws the companions deeper into the shadows, forever changing their lives and shaping the fate of the world.
No one expected them to be heroes.
Least of all, themselves."--Excerpt from Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Eight companions in a world of adventure, the land of Krynn. Hundreds of years have passed since the fiery cataclysm, in which the gods, in their anger against the very beings they created, threw down a fiery mountain upon the land. Hundreds of years have passed by for the people of Krynn, without their gods to aid them. Most say the gods turned away from them, forgot them, banished them, but some truly believe that it was the people of Krynn who brought this fate upon themselves. Those few people have found the gods once more. The gods never left them; the people simply turned away from them, forgetting them in their everyday lives. It is one of those very people, that still believe in the gods, that the blue crystal staff is bestowed upon.
Goldmoon, of the Que-Shu tribe, weilds this very staff, given to her by the gods themselves. The people of her tribe do not believe in the great power of the staff, and turn away from Goldmoon. Together, with the help of Riverwind, another tribal outcast, she travels to Solace, where the adventure begins.
It is in this very town of Solace that she and Riverwind come to an Inn, the Inn of the Last Home. During a very disastrous inncident, the staff's true power is the discovered. The staff is a staff of true healing! It can heal even the most devastating wounds. This is the staff that evil has been searching for! Surely the evil dragon highlords can win the war with this staff!
It is then that Goldmoon and Riverwind, with the help of a few newfound friends, escape the Inn and flee into the wilderness, with evil in persuit. With the help of several friends: Tanis Half-Elven, leader of the companions, Flint Fireforge, the grumbling dwarf, Tasslehoff Burrfoot, the annoying kender, Sturm Brightblade, a knight of Solamnia, Caramon Majere, a true warrior and giant, and Raistlin Majere, a secretive, harsh magic-user, they will change the fate of Krynn forever.
It is their quest to restore the old ways, to teach others of the true cause of the cataclysm, and to stop the evil dragonhighlords who threaten to destroy Krynn.
It is said that the Queen of Darkness, from the abyss, is rallying her troops for war. It is said that the dragons of myth and petty children's stories have returned. Dragon Highlords, or dragon riders as they are formally known, are invading the land and destroying anything in their path.
Can the companions overcome the evil dragons and restore peace to Krynn?
This is . . . The War of the Lance!
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