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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 120815" data-attributes="member: 158">Neowolf, For the record, the first three books were the Chronicles Series: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning. Dragons of Summer Flame was the beginning of the end IMO. I disliked it and all books that came after it.As for the cliche's you mention, these were NOT cliche's at the time of the printing. (Approx. 1983). Therein lies the problem of judging books that were first (or even seconds) in their genre.Raistlin, whom I recall no other wizard of this type - perhaps Heinlein?Even Bilbo Baggins did not share this trait. Kender such as Tasslehoff are more based on Children, than any fantasy character or type.THe only brooder I recall was Tanis, and even then he had more in common with aragorn from Tolkien than anyone else. Not exiled - Laurana followed Tanis Half-Elven like a love-starved Puppy, and experiences the most growth of all the characters in the tales. Gimli, perhaps? unsure.I do not recall another of these from any stories before 1983.If anyone has any concrete counter examples, I would appreciate them.</blockquote>