Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman - The War Of The Lance

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DRAGONLANCE TALES II

Volume Three

THE WAR

OF THE LANCE

TSR, Inc.

OCR'ed by Alligator

croc@aha.ru

Introduction

The queen of Darkness SEEKS TO REENTER the

world. Her minions of evil once more grow strong and

powerful. Dragons return to Krynn as war sweeps

across the land. Every person is called upon to face the

evil. Some rise to the challenge. Some fall. But each is, in

his or her own way, a hero.

Michael Williams delves into the soul of the tortured

king of Silvanesti in the epic poem, "Lorac."

"Raistlin and the Knight of Solamnia" by Margaret

Weis and Tracy Hickman tells how the young mage

helped a stern knight learn a hard lesson. (Originally

published in DRAGON(R) Magazine, Issue 154, February

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1990.)

Roger Moore writes about the vengeful quest of a

revenant in "Dead on Target."

Mara, Queen of Thieves, sneaks into Mountain

Nevermind in search of "War Machines" by Nick

O'Donohoe.

Dan Parkinson continues the misadventures of the

Bulp clan, as those intrepid gully dwarves search for

"The Promised Place."

Jeff Grubb relates (be warned!) a gnome story in

"Clockwork Hero."

"The Night Wolf" by Nancy Varian Berberick is a tale

of three friends who share a dark and deadly secret.

Mark Anthony's "The Potion Sellers" have a bitter pill

of their own to swallow when the wrong people come to

believe in their fake cure-alls.

Richard Knaak writes the story of an evil priest of

Chemosh, trying to recover dread magical artifacts from

beneath the Blood Sea, in "The Hand That Feeds."

Foryth Teal, valiant scribe of Astinus, returns to pro-

vide us with an exciting account of "The Vingaard Campaign"

by Douglas Niles.

And finally, Tasslehoff Burrfoot tells "The Story That

Tasslehoff Promised He Would Never, Ever, Ever Tell" to

the kender's good friends, Margaret Weis and Tracy

Hickman.

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We hope you are enjoying our return to Krynn as

much as we are. Thanks to all of you for your support.

You are the ones who have made this return journey pos-

sible. We look forward to traveling with you again in the

future.

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Lorac

Michael Williams

The country of thought

is a pathless forest,

is an intricate night

of redoubling green,

where the best and the worst

entangle and scatter

like distant light

on the face of an emerald

like a spark on the breast

of the fallen seas.

And yes, it is always like this,

for that country is haunted

with old supposition,

and no matter your stories,

no matter the rumors

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of legend and magic

that illumine you through

the curtain of years,

you come to believe

in the web of yourself

that history twines

in the veins of your fingers,

that it knits all purpose,

all pardon and injury,

recovers the lapsed

and plausible blood,

until finally, in the midst of believing,

you contrive the story

out of the rumors,

the old convolution

of breath and forgetting,

and then you will say,

beyond truth and belief,

THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS,

FOR ONCE AND AT LAST

WHAT IT ALWAYS MEANT,

NO MORE THAN I KNEW

FROM THE WORLD'S BEGINNING

IS ALL THAT IT MEANS FOREVER.

Perhaps it was love

in the towers of thought,

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in the haunts of High Sorcery,

in the towering doctrine

of moon and spell and convergence:

where the dragons dispersed

and the Kingpriest hovered

in the blind riots

of dogma and piety.

Perhaps it was love

in the breathing radius,

in the forest of crystal

where thought tunneled into

five vanishing countries,

forging the five stones

at Istar, at Wayreth,

in lofted Palanthas.

Perhaps it was love

but more likely thought

in the two vanished towers,

as the rioting stones

dwindled to four, then three,

three like the moons

in a fracturing orbit,

and the towers at Istar

and gabled Palanthas

echoed and shuddered

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in the forgotten language,

hollow and cold

with ancient departures,

as high on their turrets

the spiders walked,

and the moth and the rust

corrupted the dream of days.

But before the towers

fell to abandonment,

before the fire,

the incense of destruction,

when the Tower at Istar

blossomed in magic

and durable light,

the parapets shone

in the lonely notions

of Lorac Caladon,

Speaker of Stars.

Restless in Silvanost,

drawn by cold light,

by the intricate forest of magic,

to the North he came,

to glittering Istar

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where the tests of High Sorcery

awaited his judgment,

his ordained mathematics,

and the first test past,

and the second surmounted,

he stood as if satisfied

high on the parapets

in doubtful, striated light,

the vaunt of his intellect

over the globe of the city,

where the green luminescence

of the dangered orb

called to him out of the Tower's heart.

In the pathless forest

at the end of all centuries,

he would hear the song

as it tumbled from thought

into faceted memory,

singing, perpetually singing,

AFTER THE SECOND

THERE IS NO OTHER.

O THE TESTS ARE BEHIND YOU

SPEAKER OF SUNS

AND THE SONG OF THE ORB

IS THE SONG OF YOUR MIND

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IN THIS ANCIENT TOWER

HOLLOW AND LOVELESS

WITH LONG DEPARTURES.

O THE TESTS ARE BEHIND YOU

SPEAKER OF SUNS

BUT I SHALL LIE HERE

the orb said, shimmering

AS HISTORY FOLDS

IN THESE FLOURISHING WALLS

AS THE TOWER CRUMBLES

AND WITH IT THE MIND

THE FIRST HIGH BATTLEMENTS

THE HOUSE OF THE GODS

BUT I SHALL LIE HERE

AS THE FOREST WITHERS

AS THE PLAINS DESCEND

INTO WINTER AND NOTHING

UNLESS THE SONG OF YOUR THOUGHTS

WHICH IS EVERYTHING, IS THE WORLD,

CONTROLS AND SUBDUES

AND INFORMS THE MYSTERY.

TAKE ME TO SILVANOST

SPEAKER OF SUNS,

TAKE ME TO FREEDOM

TO THE COUNTRY OF GREEN ON GREEN.

Perhaps it was love

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in the crystal heart,

in the refraction of light

and beguiling light,

love meeting love in his long belief,

in dire mathematics,

in the mapped parabola

of the trining moons,

but there in the Tower

six reasons converged

the hand of the prophet

the nesting heart of his will

the hurdling thought

the summoning crystal

and always the ruinous moment,

all of them settling

in grim alignment,

the orb the sixth

like a heart in his hand,

like a fluttering light

a firebrand he carried

to ignited Silvanost

in the numbered days.

I AM BRINGING THEM FIRE,

he said to himself,

I AM BRINGING THEM LIGHT

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IN THE OLD GODS' STORY.

I AM THE FIRST

I WILL SAVE THEM

IN THE RISING EARTH

I WILL SAVE THEM

AND THE OLD WORLD PIVOTS

AWAY FROM MY GUIDING HAND.

So he said to himself,

and the shapeless horizon

shaded to green

and redoubling green

as out of his last dreams

arose Silvanesti,

tangible, fractured in light.

III

And outside the forest

the world collapsed,

a mountain of fire

crashed like a comet

through jewelled Istar,

through the endless city,

and the Tower, unmanned and unhouseled,

split like a dry stalk

in the midst of the ruinous flames,

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