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Message: <blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 8096437" data-attributes="member: 20990">War of Souls was definitely driven by Weis and Hickman. Hickman was the one who came up with the "fix" (Takhisis stealing the world) and changed several elements of then current DL to conform to his new idea.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Khellendros goes from being a DL native dragon (SAGA and AD&D) to another alien dragon-like the rest of the overlords.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mina's character arc is completely rewritten (Ask Steve Miller what happened there).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The dragon overlords go from being gorgeous and awe-inspiring creatures to disgusting abominations (Beryl is compared to maggots at one stage).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Palin was never Master of the White Robes. (In SAGA he was, just before the dissolution of the Orders of High Sorcery, as well as Master of the Conclave)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sorcery is destructive, corrupting magic (In SAGA it was the natural ambient magic of the world).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lord Soth randomly is in Nightlund and still ruling it despite the SAGA material saying the place was abandoned and Soth nowhere to be seen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Shadow Sorcerer is revealed to be Takhisis (in SAGA material it was very strongly suggested the Shadow Sorcerer was Malys. I guess that's not technically a contradiction).</li> </ul>I've left out things that could be just a progression of the timeline (Sorcery suddenly failing, for example). Point is the novels have driven Dragonlance rather than the gaming material for a long time, probably since Dragonlance: Legends was published. SAGA wasn't mandating the world get blown up in Summer Flame - Weis and Hickman did that, and then the RPG team tried to pick up the pieces.</blockquote>

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