Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Heh, never minding that one of Tanis' parents would have actually LIVED through the cataclysm. That's not important, I guess.
It's really not important at all. Elves have different lifespans and memories than humans do.
But, the point is, NONE of the characters in Dragonlance were presented as atheist. The whole point of the campaign was to return the gods to their rightful place. That's the basic conceit of a War of the Lance era campaign.
That a small handful of people that are specifically geared to be believers weren't atheists in no way means that atheists don't belong in the setting.
A point of view held by absolutely no one in the entire setting.
How do you know? The entire setting consists of millions of NPCs. Not even 1% of them were detailed, so you have no way of knowing if your claim is true or not.
It sounds like a group of believers to me. A group that undoubtedly encountered a number of atheists in the years before the war.It's a setting with no hope before the War of the Lance and the return of the gods. The heroes had just spent five years searching for any sign of the gods prior to the opening of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. Does that sound like people with no interest in the gods to you?