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DRAGONLANCE TALES II
Volume One

THE REIGN OF ISTAR

1992
TSR, Inc.
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Paladine, you see the evil that SURROUNDS ME!
You have been witness to the calamities that have been the
scourge of Krynn.... You must see now that this doctrine of
balance will not work!
"... I can sweep evil from this world! Destroy the ogre
races! Bring the wayward humans into line! Find new
homelands far away for the dwarves and the kender and the
gnomes, those races not of your creation....
"... I demand that you give me, too, the power to drive
away the shadows of evil that darken the land!"
So the Kingpriest prayed on the day of the Cataclysm.
He was a good man, but intolerant, proud. He believed
his way to be the right way, the only way, and insisted that
everyone else - including the gods - follow his thinking.
Those who disagreed with him were, by definition, evil
and, according to the law, must be "converted" or
destroyed. The stories in this volume deal with the effects
of such edicts and beliefs on the people of Ansalon at the
time prior to the Cataclysm.
Michael Williams begins this series, appropriately,
with a prophecy for the last days in "Six Songs for the
Temple of Istar."
"Colors of Belief," by Richard A. Knaak, tells the story
of a young knight who travels to Istar in search of the truth.
He finds it, though not quite in the way he expected.
A crusty old trainer of young knights must cope with a
most unorthodox recruit in "Kender Stew," by Nick
O'Donohoe.
"The Goblin's Wish," by Roger E. Moore, is a tale of a
disparate band of refugees, driven together by need, who
almost find the power to overcome evil. Almost.
"The Three Lives of Horgan Oxthrall," by Douglas
Niles, continues the theme of unlikely allies, forced to band
together in the face of a common enemy, as told by a clerk
to Astinus.
Nancy Varian Berberick writes about alliances of a
more intriguing nature in "Filling the Empty Places."
Dan Parkinson tells how the small and seemingly