D&D General 'War Wizard' Is A New Dragonlance Novel From Weis & Hickman

From Penguin Random House, and authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, comes a new Dragonlance novel focused on the early friendship between the red-robed wizard Magius, and the famed Solamnic knight, Huma, two characters who have featured heavily in Dragonlance lore (and notably in Weis & Hickman's recent Dragonlance Destinies novel trilogy which featured some of the Heroes of the Lance traveling back in time to an earlier dragon war).

Dragonlance: War Wizard releases on August 4th, 2026 as a 352-page hardcover, and forms the first in a new trilogy set in the world of Krynn.

The first volume of a new epic trilogy set in the world of Krynn, written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the creators of Dragonlance.

Vinus Solamnus wrote: The practice of magic is secretive, inherently deceitful, and dishonorable. Those who practice magic are forbidden to enter the knighthood, nor should they be connected to the knighthood in any way.

The boy with a rare gift for magic was born in Solamnia, a nation that despised and distrusted mages. His father tried to beat the magic out of him. The knights threatened him with imprisonment and exile. He endured tragedy and heartbreak. Yet he persisted with his magic, for the sake of the magic.

One friend stood by him when others persecuted him, a young man who was studying for the knighthood. No one could understand this unlikely friendship.

The knight was Huma. The boy took the name, Magius. The two would one day become famous in Solamnic history, fighting together to defeat the Queen of Darkness.

But that future is distant, far down the River of Time.

For now, this is the story of an unlikely friendship that would one day change the world.

 

[EthanSental]

I understand what JerryRice would like and I’d probably buy new novels/new characters as well but since Huma and Magius have only been briefly touched on and usually by current novel heroes mentioned them as hero stories of the past, I’m sure there’s some cool stories about them that can be built on and fleshed out into interesting stories.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

I understand what JerryRice would like and I’d probably buy new novels/new characters as well but since Huma and Magius have only been briefly touched on and usually by current novel heroes mentioned them as hero stories of the past, I’m sure there’s some cool stories about them that can be built on and fleshed out into interesting stories.

I'm not a Dragonlance fan but I got added to Richard Knaak's mailing list ages ago and hasn't he been writing a novel about Huma every two or three years?

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

They tried that and people didn’t like it.

That has always been what hindered Dragonlance as as setting. It was so deeply tied to the Heroes of the Lance, and moving away from them had mixed results. As a result, the stories have mined every second of each of the heroes lives before, after, and during the War of the Lance.

I'll be curious to read this one. Hopefully there are no more time travel shenanigans.

 

[mamba]

They tried that and people didn’t like it.

I don’t think they could not have created new stories with new characters that people would have liked, it’s just that they created stories in which people did not like the direction the world was taken in.

The whole 5th Age with undoing everything the Heroes did just a decade or so after that had happened was not a great idea and born out of a boneheaded move by TSR

Given that this split the fanbase and essentially killed DL (along with other TSR missteps) focusing on the past of the setting makes more sense, its ‘future’ (i.e. what happens after the war) is in dire need of a reboot, not a continuation

 

[Morrus]

I don’t think they could not have created new stories with new characters that people would have liked,

You lost me! You don’t not think not would have?