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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5883370" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>According to the novels, when Raistlin entered the Abyss (fun fact: it was actually the Nine Hells) to challenge Takhisis, what actually happened was that he defeated all of her servants there. At that point, with only Takhisis herself left, his plan was to retreat to the Prime Material Plane, and let Takhisis follow him there. </p><p></p><p>With her, a greater deity, on the Material Plane, the book says that would bring down "the wrath of the Heavens" on her - clearly implying direct intervention from other deities, albeit not having them enter the Material Plane themselves - and that (in an unspecified manner) Raistlin would be commanding those forces/using them to his advantage.</p><p></p><p>That also wouldn't have been the end of the battle, as at some point in the conflict Raistlin would have become a god himself and continued the fight, with Takhisis losing gradually over the next few years...oddly, this would also be the case for all of the other gods; the implication being that Raistlin had, in a chessmaster-like fashion, already figured out what they'd do and how to fight back.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and the world was destroyed in the process of all this, which was worse than it sounds for the deified Raistlin, since 1) Evil gods can't create anything, only corrupt the creation of good races (which seems silly, and I think is refuted in Dragonlance anyway, what with the Irda ogres and all), and 2) the authors kept refusing to acknowledge that Krynn existed in the wider D&D multiverse, so there were other worlds and planes anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 5883370, member: 8461"] According to the novels, when Raistlin entered the Abyss (fun fact: it was actually the Nine Hells) to challenge Takhisis, what actually happened was that he defeated all of her servants there. At that point, with only Takhisis herself left, his plan was to retreat to the Prime Material Plane, and let Takhisis follow him there. With her, a greater deity, on the Material Plane, the book says that would bring down "the wrath of the Heavens" on her - clearly implying direct intervention from other deities, albeit not having them enter the Material Plane themselves - and that (in an unspecified manner) Raistlin would be commanding those forces/using them to his advantage. That also wouldn't have been the end of the battle, as at some point in the conflict Raistlin would have become a god himself and continued the fight, with Takhisis losing gradually over the next few years...oddly, this would also be the case for all of the other gods; the implication being that Raistlin had, in a chessmaster-like fashion, already figured out what they'd do and how to fight back. Oh, and the world was destroyed in the process of all this, which was worse than it sounds for the deified Raistlin, since 1) Evil gods can't create anything, only corrupt the creation of good races (which seems silly, and I think is refuted in Dragonlance anyway, what with the Irda ogres and all), and 2) the authors kept refusing to acknowledge that Krynn existed in the wider D&D multiverse, so there were other worlds and planes anyway. [/QUOTE]
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