{"id":1286,"date":"2009-10-13T22:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T04:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2009-12-28T22:48:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T04:48:36","slug":"dragons-of-the-hourglass-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Dragons of the Hourglass Mage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final volume of another Dragonlance series has at last arrived, and I am forced to admit to a lack of objectivity about\u00a0<a title=\"Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dragons-Hourglass-Mage-Chronicles-Three\/dp\/0786949163\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dragons of the Hourglass Mage<\/a>. Because, as the cover and unwieldy title alike imply, it is mostly about Raistlin Majere, and I don\u2019t really get tired of that guy, at least not when written by Weis and Hickman.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much, the book details the lost month in the original Chronicles between when Raistlin left his companions to die in the Blood Sea of Istar[1] and when he reappeared at the series climax to tilt the balance against the Queen of Darkness[1], in order to further his own ambitions via a freer world. It may contradict some of the other main sequence canon, but never in very noticeable ways. Plus, since the character study continues to fulfill everything I\u2019ve sought out of the series in the past twenty years, I don\u2019t really care. Things in the story include a secret resistance in the heart of evil\u2019s lair, an assassin kender, a plot against the gods of magic, and perennial Dragonlance favorite Lord Soth, the death knight. Unless you also really like the psychology of Raistlin Majere, though, it\u2019s okay at best.<\/p>\n<p>[1] Sometimes, when I have not typed the words out in a while, I forget just\u00a0<em>how<\/em> standard-fantasy these books can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final volume of another Dragonlance series has at last arrived, and I am forced to admit to a lack of objectivity about\u00a0Dragons of the Hourglass Mage. Because, as the cover and unwieldy title alike imply, it is mostly about Raistlin Majere, and I don\u2019t really get tired of that guy, at least not when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[610,106],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-dragonlance","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}