Alternative Timeline: Hourglass in the Sky | DragonLance Saga

[@DLSaga]

Thank you for watching todays Dragonlance Setting episode. What do you think of this alternate timeline? Would you ever play a campaign sent to stop Raistlin from becoming a god? Leave a comment below!

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

Your videos let me know I’m having a good day

[@j0llyblackgiant]

hmm I think this situation would be one of the rare time I would turn on my party. I cant imgaine playing a campaign where I am not supporting Raistlin. I am pretty sure Raistlin would eventually figure out how to repopulate Krynn.

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

Never!! His hourglass Far-seeing eyes discerned Wayyyy more than the smartest of the Hero's, Tanis Half Elven

[@CANDROU1]

Very cool! I forgot that there was a game book designed for this alternate timeline, that's awesome. I think if Raistlin had gone through with it, he wouldn't have lived over a lifeless world forever. Krynn would have remained doomed, yes, but I think he would have been able to travel to other planes and worlds. He basically did that by finding other worlds and eventually Krynn that Takhisis had stolen away in the War of Souls and that was before having the power of the gods.

[@DLSaga]

Raistlin travels to other settings and realizes he’s not so tough anymore.

[@CANDROU1]

@@DLSaga hahaha exactly!

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

@@DLSagadepends on the setting I would love to him in critical role

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

Bad Ass concepts!! Yessss, Dragonlance and DnD fan here!!! 🎲🎲🎲🎲

[@DLSaga]

That’s great!

[@Kasman2002]

Thanks for this, I didn't realize there was so much more information on this timeline beyond the novel. Want to stop Raistlin? What if Chaos was freed during the events of the Hourglass in the Sky? You didn't say how to stop Raistlin and save the world, of course whoever wins I suspect Krynn will be little more the cosmic rubble.

[@DLSaga]

Whoa if chaos was released after Raistlin started killing gods and became strong enough to stand against him…. That’s a great thought experiment.

[@ASMRChess]

I see “Hourglass” and I am IN

[@DLSaga]

Hehe

[@trieze90]

Yes! My favourite 3.5 Dragonlance book! I am stoked for this!

[@DLSaga]

It’s a good one!

[@brotherofastudio6310]

Very nice, I'm so glad my recommendation was turned into a video, hope there will be more alternate Krynns and next generation characters. One of the only ways I can think of to get rid of Raistlin would be to use the Greygem to either destroy him, restore the gods or maybe increase the good aspects of Raistlin turning him into more of a god of balance who would restore the world. Or maybe somehow call on the High God for help since I'm pretty sure he is the only deity who could overpower Raistlin in such a state.

[@DLSaga]

You have some great suggestions, what about using Bupu?

[@brotherofastudio6310]

@@DLSaga Good point. Raistlin always did have a soft spot for those mistreated because of their appearance or disability. He'd probably be friends with Tyrion Lannister if he ever wound up in Westeros.

[@andrewstuartjohnston]

Raistlin and the war in heaven is such an integral part of the Dragonlance mythology. I could never understand why killing a God would cause the destruction of the world itself. It always felt like a cheap trick to prevent him from attaining what was rightfully is. How does one rightfully become a God? But having the ability to defeat one. If you can be defeated are you truly a God at all?

[@DLSaga]

They talked about absorbing the power of the god you defeat, much like the dragon purge in the fifth age. It doesn’t make sense, but it’s fantasy…

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

Raistlin Majere lives on Forever!! Hourglass timelines, different planes of existence!! Love the Soul Forge story🌲☕🌛⏳🌜🌛⏳🌜

[@DLSaga]

I wanted more from his test. It felt like a let down.

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

Me, too. But Mages are sworn to Secrecy,😎 Raist couldn't tell all, Adam. Neither could Astinus of Palanthas. Only Maji understand, lol. Love this channel, omg YES!!

[@jasonpelto1164]

Purdy cool thanks man

[@DLSaga]

Thank you for watching!

[@foolsby]

I always did wonder what the Highgod was doing during all of this. The only way that Raistlin's destruction of all the gods made sense was if: (1) the Highgod invested all his powers into his children, leaving little for himself, making him easily destroyed (2) the Highgod was actually Chaos, which was what I think Weis/Hickman intended to say in Dragons of Summer Flame before Hickman decided to re-retcon that fact Hard to say. The Highgod seemed to be featured more in the modules/gaming materials than the actual books, and that's probably for a reason... Weis/Hickman may have found his presence/absence hard to explain. I can't actually remember the Highgod behind mentioned in those books at all, come to think of it. Perhaps Raistlin found the Greygem and was able to siphon off Chaos' power while keeping Chaos contained and trapped. Anyway, these are my rationalizations!

[@DLSaga]

They never fully contextualized the high god/Ionthas (chaos) dynamic till the War of Souls.

[@foolsby]

@@DLSaga Well, I liked Reorx acknowledging Chaos as "Father" or the "All-Father" when the Greygem was broken in DOSF. I liked the metaphysical dynamic of the children-versus-their father/creator that this created. I think it was in a War of Souls appendix that Hickman retconned that Reorx moment, claiming that Reorx was mistaken in what he said, and that Ionthas falsely claimed to be the Highgod. My take was that the devout Mormon side of Tracy Hickman felt uncomfortable about having a chaotic (versus lawful) creator, even in this fictional universe, so he convinced Weis to let him recon things in this appendix, years after DOSF. Granted, this interpretation is wildly assumptive and probably wrong, but it's just my personal explanation for why such a needless reconning took place. Thoughts?

[@JCinLapel]

I made a Dragonlance game where you ended up banishing the hourglass god. The idea was that it was set in 3 time with 3 sets of characters all converging on the tower of the hand. Which was made to look this a 40 foot for arm and hand reaching out of the ground or is it. The villains were a mummy king priest a zombie toode the lich of fistindatalus the banshee that huanted sloth and leading them all an death knight kitara that ended sloth. The idea was that on a night of the eye each God empowered magus dalamar or Palin with the book of first magic the first dragon orb or the staff of magus so all 3 had the 3 orders tied as one spell. Palin with the orb powered by Lunitary, Magus with the staff powered by Nunitary and Dalamar with the book powered by solinaryq

[@DLSaga]

That sounds like a lot to manage.

[@JCinLapel]

@@DLSaga it is mainly set 7 years after the Lance with two or three sessions in the other time lines or an option to npc the others. This was mainly because some wanted just after war of the Lance and others just after the chaos war so they could bring in the dark knight and draconian PC

[@foolsby]

If you're talking about a zombie Fewmaster Toede, I'm in. :)

[@JCinLapel]

@@foolsby yes Toede Also I use Boopo as a ghost who helps the party

[@foolsby]

@@JCinLapel I love it! You've got all the fan favorites in there. Death Knight Kitiara! It would be great to see this plot as a comic book.

[@josepinheiro292]

Very good.

[@DLSaga]

Thank you for watching!

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

Also, 4th month, 5th day, year 358 all those #'s equal a (7) in Numerology. If you remember, Raistlins mage test at the Tower of High Sorcery in Wayreth was on the 7th month, 7th day at the 7th hour

[@DLSaga]

Whoa I think you are reading too much into the fantasy story.

[@LadyKheperaANKH999]

@@DLSaga Nah , I believe that Weiss and Hickman know more than fantasy, lol. They have actual Arcana in the story line; more than in the one instance afore mentioned. Dragonlance is Spiced with the ARCANE and Esotericism, you just have to know what your looking for in the field of Occult Science's...I know, I am also a practioner/protagonist. You don't just randomly come up with that kind of Numerology without thought and calculations. Ppl also said H.P.Lovecraft was just another Horror novelist, But if you read deeper, he was the True definition of an Occultist, one who knows secets/, mysteries and that which is *(hidden) or Occult.... And, his grandfather was a Mason, btw.. Cthuluhu Mythos is a prime example of horror/fantasy based on Esoteric Cuneiform tablets from ancient Sumeria....

[@knines4280]

Good afternoon! I moved my issue #83, Dragon Magazine, into the House last night. (It was in my filing cabinet,in the Garage.),. You do know what's in issue 83, don't you?

[@DLSaga]

Not off the top of my head but I can look it up.

[@knines4280]

@@DLSaga I know! First time that Test of the Twins was Published. First Dragonlance story....... Ever......

[@knines4280]

During the lockdown, I discovered that I had it! I bought the issue for something else entirely. So, imagine my surprise!