mystraschosen said:
Don't forget that he appears in the last darksword book by margaret and tracy ..I believe the title is the legacy of the darksword.I t deals with joram coming back from beyond the mists to once again walk the land.It came out about 3 years ago and is the fourth installment.
I'm relatively confident you've become confused here.
I read the first book in the Darksword trilogy, which was enough to know that it was not D&D at all, including Ravenloft.
The character we're talking about is Lord Soth, not Joram. The closest Weis & Hickman could have done is put a character with Soth's description and a similar name in their book. They could hint it was him, but could never say it was out-and-out (and, since they don't own the copyright to that character, it wouldn't be). Likewise, they could mention a misty land filled with evil...but that won't be Ravenloft, since they can't use that place-name in their book.
That said, such a tactic is something Weis & Hickman like to do - I'm sure we all remember the befuddled old magd Zifnab in the second book of the Death Gate cycle...and how likewise, at the end of the Dragonlance book
Test of the Twins, Tasslehoff has a book that belongs to someone named Haplo...the protagonist of the Death Gate novels.
That said, what I said above still holds...all the hinting in the world doesn't make it canon: Lord Soth was never in any of the Darksword books (I feel confident saying that despite never having read the rest of the series).
