Tales I Vol.1 - The Magic of Krynn
Tales I
volume I
The Magic of Krynn
Edited by
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
FOREWORD
www.9jaonline.mobi
"No! No! Please don't leave!" cried Tasslehoff Burrfoot and, before
we could stop him, the kender grabbed hold of our magical device that
would have transported us out of Krynn and ran off with it down the
road!
So here we are, back again, ready for more adventures. If you are
one of our long-time fellow travelers, we welcome you along. If you
have never journeyed with us through the DRAGONLANCE worlds, we hope
this anthology will serve as an interesting and exciting introduction.
A favorite fantasy theme is magic and those who practice it. In
these pages, you will find tales of the magic of Krynn. Some were
written by us, some written by old friends, and some written by new
friends we've met along the way.
Riverwind and the Crystal Staff is a narrative poem that describes
a haunting search for a magical artifact. A Stone's Throw Away is the
story of that irrepressible kender, Tassle- hoff Burrfoot, and his
comic, perilous adventure of the tele- porting ring.
The Blood Sea Monster tells about "the one that got away." Dreams
of Darkness, Dreams of Light recounts the tale of Pig-Face William and
the magical coin.
Otik the innkeeper has unusual problems in Love and Ale. The young
mage, Raistlin, faces danger in the Tower of High Sorcery in The Test
of the Twins. Draconians stumble into a mysterious village of elves in
Wayward Children.
Finding the Faith is a high-adventure tale of the elf maid,
Laurana, and her search for the famed dragon orb in Icewall Castle. A
young Tanis and his friend, Flint the dwarf, learn about love that
redeems and love that kills in Harvests.
Finally, in the novella, The Legacy, a young mage must face the
fact that his evil uncle-the powerful wizard, Raistlin - may be trying
to escape eternal torment by stealing his nephew's soul!
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Riverwind and the Crystal Staff
Michael Williams
I
HERE ON THE PLAINS WHERE THE WIND EMBRACES
LIGHT AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT,
WHERE THE WIND IS THE VOICE
OF THE GODS COME DOWN,
THE RUMOR OF SONG BEFORE SINGING BEGINS,
HERE THE PEOPLE UNDER THE WINDS
ARE WANDERING EVER TOWARDS HOME,
FOREVER IN MOVEMENT AN OLD MAN IS SINGING
THE SONG OF AN ABSENT COUNTRY,
BEAUTIFUL, HEARTLESS AS SUNLIGHT,
COLD AS IMAGINED WINDS
BEHIND THE EYE OF THE RAIN,
AND WIDE BEFORE US, MY SONS AND FATHERS,
THE SONG OF THE COUNTRY CENTERS AND SWOOPS
LIKE A HAWK IN A SLEEPING LAND,
BORNE UPON HUNGER AND THERMALS,
SINGING FOREVER, SINGING:
It was not always
after the wars, it was
a time once when fire
did not rise on its own
out of the dead grass,
a time of waters
and of vanishing light,
when we did not imagine
new country arising
out of the long mirage
of countries remembered
from mother to daughter
in a ruinous dream
that would not have let this happen,
nor did the dance of the moons,
the opened hearts of hawks,
nor did the wind itself
foresee the fires
hot as shrew's blood
in the veins of the land
consuming our dream
while we slept in our journeys,
while these things came to pass.
The outrunners found
the child among waves
of grass and darkness,
on the night when the moon and the moon
wed one another and canceled their light
and the sky was black
except for a wedge of silver
turned like a blade
in the heart of the heavens.
And the night they found him
was his naming night,
and the years unnamed
were the years behind him,
the time among leopards
who must have raised him
in the waves of grass and darkness,
though he did not remember this,
did not recount the graves upon graves
to which he gave infancy,
where he buried the first words of childhood,
And the night they found him
was his naming night.
Riverwind the name he borrowed,
borrowed for him
out of the grass and the darkness moving,
out of their fear of the sky
and the blade of the swallowed moon.
And honored he was among families,
as the source of the blood
was lost in the people,
as the path of the eland,
the high call of the hawk
buried themselves in words
and the long wind died
volume I
The Magic of Krynn
Edited by
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
FOREWORD
www.9jaonline.mobi
"No! No! Please don't leave!" cried Tasslehoff Burrfoot and, before
we could stop him, the kender grabbed hold of our magical device that
would have transported us out of Krynn and ran off with it down the
road!
So here we are, back again, ready for more adventures. If you are
one of our long-time fellow travelers, we welcome you along. If you
have never journeyed with us through the DRAGONLANCE worlds, we hope
this anthology will serve as an interesting and exciting introduction.
A favorite fantasy theme is magic and those who practice it. In
these pages, you will find tales of the magic of Krynn. Some were
written by us, some written by old friends, and some written by new
friends we've met along the way.
Riverwind and the Crystal Staff is a narrative poem that describes
a haunting search for a magical artifact. A Stone's Throw Away is the
story of that irrepressible kender, Tassle- hoff Burrfoot, and his
comic, perilous adventure of the tele- porting ring.
The Blood Sea Monster tells about "the one that got away." Dreams
of Darkness, Dreams of Light recounts the tale of Pig-Face William and
the magical coin.
Otik the innkeeper has unusual problems in Love and Ale. The young
mage, Raistlin, faces danger in the Tower of High Sorcery in The Test
of the Twins. Draconians stumble into a mysterious village of elves in
Wayward Children.
Finding the Faith is a high-adventure tale of the elf maid,
Laurana, and her search for the famed dragon orb in Icewall Castle. A
young Tanis and his friend, Flint the dwarf, learn about love that
redeems and love that kills in Harvests.
Finally, in the novella, The Legacy, a young mage must face the
fact that his evil uncle-the powerful wizard, Raistlin - may be trying
to escape eternal torment by stealing his nephew's soul!
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Riverwind and the Crystal Staff
Michael Williams
I
HERE ON THE PLAINS WHERE THE WIND EMBRACES
LIGHT AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT,
WHERE THE WIND IS THE VOICE
OF THE GODS COME DOWN,
THE RUMOR OF SONG BEFORE SINGING BEGINS,
HERE THE PEOPLE UNDER THE WINDS
ARE WANDERING EVER TOWARDS HOME,
FOREVER IN MOVEMENT AN OLD MAN IS SINGING
THE SONG OF AN ABSENT COUNTRY,
BEAUTIFUL, HEARTLESS AS SUNLIGHT,
COLD AS IMAGINED WINDS
BEHIND THE EYE OF THE RAIN,
AND WIDE BEFORE US, MY SONS AND FATHERS,
THE SONG OF THE COUNTRY CENTERS AND SWOOPS
LIKE A HAWK IN A SLEEPING LAND,
BORNE UPON HUNGER AND THERMALS,
SINGING FOREVER, SINGING:
It was not always
after the wars, it was
a time once when fire
did not rise on its own
out of the dead grass,
a time of waters
and of vanishing light,
when we did not imagine
new country arising
out of the long mirage
of countries remembered
from mother to daughter
in a ruinous dream
that would not have let this happen,
nor did the dance of the moons,
the opened hearts of hawks,
nor did the wind itself
foresee the fires
hot as shrew's blood
in the veins of the land
consuming our dream
while we slept in our journeys,
while these things came to pass.
The outrunners found
the child among waves
of grass and darkness,
on the night when the moon and the moon
wed one another and canceled their light
and the sky was black
except for a wedge of silver
turned like a blade
in the heart of the heavens.
And the night they found him
was his naming night,
and the years unnamed
were the years behind him,
the time among leopards
who must have raised him
in the waves of grass and darkness,
though he did not remember this,
did not recount the graves upon graves
to which he gave infancy,
where he buried the first words of childhood,
And the night they found him
was his naming night.
Riverwind the name he borrowed,
borrowed for him
out of the grass and the darkness moving,
out of their fear of the sky
and the blade of the swallowed moon.
And honored he was among families,
as the source of the blood
was lost in the people,
as the path of the eland,
the high call of the hawk
buried themselves in words
and the long wind died
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