every day he would be killed, and every day brought back to life by thakasis, to be tortured again. during palin majere's (caramon's son) test at the tower, raistlin was accidentally released unknowingly by the masters of the orders back to krynn. nothing has yet been written about what he did between then and the chaos war, i think he might have returned to the abyss, i'm a little fuzzy on the end of that short story. it's in the collection with the rest of the stuff that set's up dragons of sumer flame. i think the book is called next generation.