Legend of Huma is actually a great starting point. Because in the chronicles series (which most recommend as a starting point). They are constantly referring back to Huma and the cataclysm. So if you start with the heroes series, you will already understand what they are referring to.
My first book was Dragons of Summer Flame. Was traveling to central america and wanted to pick up a couple books to read during the trip and one of them was that book. Felt odd reading that all the gods were leaving and wondering "wait, were they around a lot before?" which led to picking up more books that turned into an addiction almost. Favorite trilogy is definitely Legends, can listen/read it over and over and never get tired of it! Enjoyed the War of Souls and the huge set up it did for the fifth age but absolutely adored The Dark Disciple trilogy because it gave me something I've been dying for since starting the series, more insights and moments with the gods, their personalities, interactions, scheming etc along with them needing to gain the trust and worship of their followers who also play a larger role going around and spreading influence. As for read order, I'd say basically anything Weis & Hickman wrote, read those first and then branch off from there depending on what era, race or group you have the most interest in and then think of those off shoot books as tales told around a fire by an elder over being pure canon. Seems like they added a lot to kinda fill in gaps or missing bits of information since the series took off as big as it did. And smash that like and subscribe button as if you're Theros forging a fresh set of Dragonlances!
Fascinating, you had quite the unorthodox journey through DL, thanks for sharing Batshine and love your last comment, I'll have to use Theros in the future, I'll of course give you full credit for it. As to Dark Disciple it was pretty good, darn I forgot to mention it. In a future video I'll definitely remember it!
I have been studying and studying this for months and every account only confuses me more and more and more because it's always a different list with the exception of maybe the first so-called holy six. When I read all the Forgotten Realms novels I just read them as I wanted to or as I found them and I think I'm just going to do that with this too and if I get confused I get confused and if not and I can put it together in my head and say oh damn that's how that happened, okay, then that's what I'm going to do. Because let's face it I went back and forth on the timeline with Forgotten Realms as well. It's probably not as big of a deal as everybody makes it out to be
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Dragons of the Dwarven Depths Dragons of Winter Night Dragons of the Highlord Skies Dragons of Spring Dawning Dragons of the Hourglass Mage Time of the Twins War of the Twins Test of the Twins The Soulforge Brothers in Arms The Second Generation Dragons of Summer Flame Dragons in the Archives Dragons of a Fallen Sun Dragons of a Lost Star Dragons of a Vanished Moon Amber and Ashes Amber and Iron Amber and Blood What I don't know is where does this new trilogy fit into all this. It starts after Test of the Twins but jumps around in time. Don't know yet where it belongs in the reading order
Very good reading order my friend, I like that you focused on the Classical era first though I disagree about the where the Raistlin duology's placement but all in all a good order. As to this new series I think it is a reboot and so I could not tell you when it should be read in the Reading Order, as I'm fairly confused myself about it. But thanks for this great comment of yours my friend, it is a great order, in particular with the Lost Chronicles coming after the Chronicles. Glad you put so much thought into it X)
@@thebrotherskrynn Dwarven Depths takes place between Autumn Twilight and Winter Night and doesn’t spoil Winter Night, so it fits nicely there. Highlord Skies takes place concurrently with Winter Night and raises the stakes for the War of the Lance. Spring Dawning is then the conclusion of the war. Hourglass Mage is concurrent with Spring Dawning but from Raistlin's perspective. Because of this, it acts as a bridge to the Legends Trilogy. After reading about the fate of the twins, one can now go back and read about their humble beginnings in the Raistlin Chronicles. After that dualogy is complete, the story can progress forward with the Heroes' children in the Second Generation and Summer Flame. After that in the Archives should be read. Ot takes place throughout time. It deals with the Heroes' great-grandparents, the Heroes themselves when they were younger, the children of the children of the Heroes, and it introduces themes, lessons, and situations presented in the War of Souls. The War of Souls should be read next. After that the Dark Disciple Trilogy should be read because it adds depth to the villain from the War of Souls. Like I said, this new trilogy starts after Test of the Twins but supposedly jumps around in time. Not sure yet how it fits
This video showed up in my feed again. Now that I've read volume 1 of the new series, I say it should be read after Bothers In Arms but before Second Generation. It seems like volume 2 will reboot the Legend of Huma and the Third Dragon War
A more focused reading order of the Prequel & Sequel eras of Dragonlance will surely follow, as this was a very general video.
Found the original paperback version of Time of the Twins trilogy and I didn’t know that Autumn Twilight was the first books
Common mistake
Legend of Huma is actually a great starting point. Because in the chronicles series (which most recommend as a starting point). They are constantly referring back to Huma and the cataclysm. So if you start with the heroes series, you will already understand what they are referring to.
Good point
My first book was Dragons of Summer Flame. Was traveling to central america and wanted to pick up a couple books to read during the trip and one of them was that book. Felt odd reading that all the gods were leaving and wondering "wait, were they around a lot before?" which led to picking up more books that turned into an addiction almost. Favorite trilogy is definitely Legends, can listen/read it over and over and never get tired of it! Enjoyed the War of Souls and the huge set up it did for the fifth age but absolutely adored The Dark Disciple trilogy because it gave me something I've been dying for since starting the series, more insights and moments with the gods, their personalities, interactions, scheming etc along with them needing to gain the trust and worship of their followers who also play a larger role going around and spreading influence.
As for read order, I'd say basically anything Weis & Hickman wrote, read those first and then branch off from there depending on what era, race or group you have the most interest in and then think of those off shoot books as tales told around a fire by an elder over being pure canon. Seems like they added a lot to kinda fill in gaps or missing bits of information since the series took off as big as it did.
And smash that like and subscribe button as if you're Theros forging a fresh set of Dragonlances!
Fascinating, you had quite the unorthodox journey through DL, thanks for sharing Batshine and love your last comment, I'll have to use Theros in the future, I'll of course give you full credit for it.
As to Dark Disciple it was pretty good, darn I forgot to mention it. In a future video I'll definitely remember it!
@@thebrotherskrynn Another could smash as if you were the gods smashing a fiery mountain on krynn lol
This is soooo good ...
I have been studying and studying this for months and every account only confuses me more and more and more because it's always a different list with the exception of maybe the first so-called holy six. When I read all the Forgotten Realms novels I just read them as I wanted to or as I found them and I think I'm just going to do that with this too and if I get confused I get confused and if not and I can put it together in my head and say oh damn that's how that happened, okay, then that's what I'm going to do. Because let's face it I went back and forth on the timeline with Forgotten Realms as well. It's probably not as big of a deal as everybody makes it out to be
Good video.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
The Soulforge
Brothers in Arms
The Second Generation
Dragons of Summer Flame
Dragons in the Archives
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanished Moon
Amber and Ashes
Amber and Iron
Amber and Blood
What I don't know is where does this new trilogy fit into all this. It starts after Test of the Twins but jumps around in time. Don't know yet where it belongs in the reading order
Very good reading order my friend, I like that you focused on the Classical era first though I disagree about the where the Raistlin duology's placement but all in all a good order.
As to this new series I think it is a reboot and so I could not tell you when it should be read in the Reading Order, as I'm fairly confused myself about it.
But thanks for this great comment of yours my friend, it is a great order, in particular with the Lost Chronicles coming after the Chronicles. Glad you put so much thought into it X)
@@thebrotherskrynn Dwarven Depths takes place between Autumn Twilight and Winter Night and doesn’t spoil Winter Night, so it fits nicely there. Highlord Skies takes place concurrently with Winter Night and raises the stakes for the War of the Lance. Spring Dawning is then the conclusion of the war. Hourglass Mage is concurrent with Spring Dawning but from Raistlin's perspective. Because of this, it acts as a bridge to the Legends Trilogy. After reading about the fate of the twins, one can now go back and read about their humble beginnings in the Raistlin Chronicles. After that dualogy is complete, the story can progress forward with the Heroes' children in the Second Generation and Summer Flame. After that in the Archives should be read. Ot takes place throughout time. It deals with the Heroes' great-grandparents, the Heroes themselves when they were younger, the children of the children of the Heroes, and it introduces themes, lessons, and situations presented in the War of Souls. The War of Souls should be read next. After that the Dark Disciple Trilogy should be read because it adds depth to the villain from the War of Souls.
Like I said, this new trilogy starts after Test of the Twins but supposedly jumps around in time. Not sure yet how it fits
This video showed up in my feed again.
Now that I've read volume 1 of the new series, I say it should be read after Bothers In Arms but before Second Generation. It seems like volume 2 will reboot the Legend of Huma and the Third Dragon War