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Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. It is Bakukal, Fierswelt the 23rd, my name is Adam and today I am going to give you my Spoiler review The Annotated Legends: Time of the Twins. I will be spoiling the story, so if you don’t want to know it, stop watching now! I would like to take a moment and thank my collaborator patrons, the Heroes of the Lance, and invite you to consider becoming a patron or member of this channel by visiting the links in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate link. This is my perspective only, and if you have any thoughts or disagree with mine, I invite you to share them in YouTube chat.

Book One is the set up for the trilogy that follows. Raistlin wants to become a god, but he needs to be able to enter the Abyss. He doesn’t have the knowledge to do so yet, so he plans on traveling to the past to learn from Fistandantilus himself. He knows that he needs a holy cleric of good to willingly open the portal with him, and he considers Elistan, but alas, he is too old and frail at this point. Crysania is the next best thing. Raistlin uses his logic to play into her own sense of superiority and strength to try and eventually open the portal with him.

Kitiara and Lord Soth visit Raistlin and try to get him to help them with their plans to rule Krynn, but he refuses, explaining that he will make her queen if they help him. Kitiara defies him for her queen, Takhisis, and sends Lord Soth to kill Crysania. Crysania traveled to Solace to get help from Caramon. She is sure Raistin has good in him, very intentionally luke skywalker/darth vader storytelling here, and seeks to present the information to the Orders of High Sorcery at Wayreth. She sent Tas to collect Bupu from Xak Tsaroth, and Tanis guided her to Solace.

Caramon is a shadow of who he was. He is an alcoholic, overweight and worthless. Tika is embarrassed and ashamed of what he has become. He is addicted to being needed and when he is no longer needed his addiction takes over in the form of over eating and drinking copious amounts of dwarven spirits. Riverwind arrives in Solace just before Canis and Crysania and he tells Tanis that he can't help. Tanis discovers the reality of Caramon and is sadly unable to help either. Crysania leaves without anyone in the morning, and Tas arrives late with Bupu in tow. Tika gives Caramon an ultimatum: Help Crysania, or dont come home.

Now my father was an alcoholic, and it's something that I struggle with. My earliest memories of him was him assaulting my mother. I have a complicated relationship with alcohol now and I do everything I can to not repeat the mistakes of my father. Practicing indulgence rather than compulsion. So I connect with Tika in a strange way, as if she were my mother, and I her child, reliving my past. Addiction is more powerful than one can imagine and tackling it with any degree of authority here is folly. But there is enough groundwork laid that you can accept what is being presented. If this were reality, Caramon would have beaten if not killed Tika. He is a monster when we meet him.

Caramon is lost in his addiction and has to be pulled out of every inn they come across in their search for Crysania. They finally arrive at an inn filled with rangers who point Tas and Caramon in Crysanias direction, then the inn vanishes. I have no idea what this is supposed to represent. Is it a manifestation of a god, assisting them? Par-Salien pointing them in the direction? Or Raistlin acting as puppet master behind the scenes? Either way, they finally discover Crysania and Lord Soth shows up and kills her with a word. Paladine saves her soul, but her body is in a vegetable state.

Dalamar, Raistlin’s apprentice, tells him about Crysania and Kitiara’s treachery, and Raistlin calls on the tower and forest of Wayreth to find Tas and Caramon. He tells Dalamar that he is traveling back in time and to report it to his true masters, the orders of high Sorcery who sent him to Raistlin to spy on him. He then burns his fingers into Dalamars flesh,..

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