![]() ![]() Notable for taking extreme D&D influences and making them work on their own. This shows up even in the first novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, as the gods had abandoned the world some hundreds of years before after the first Cataclysm, and the protagonists must not only deal with the covert return of Takhisis, the Dark Queen of the evil gods, but also with the Seekers, who have invented false gods as a pretext to seize power. Another theme that's prevalent throughout the books is spiritual abandonment and discovery, as the gods have a distinct tendency to run out on the world whenever they screw things up badly enough. ![]() ![]() The concept of the Balance Between Good and Evil is a central theme of the setting, as the stories have shown similarly dire consequences when good and evil each spiral out of control. Dragonlance is a series of High Fantasy novels and an accompanying Dungeons & Dragons setting, devised by husband-and-wife team Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman, and popularized via novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. ![]()
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