Destina's Guilt (in black and white)

Today's happy moment: I discovered a short story that fills in a small gap within the book Dragons of Autumn Twilight! Hunting Destiny details what happened to the party of draconians that was trailing the Companions into Darken Wood—As well as telling of the vow the ghostly warriors had broken.

I'm especially excited to learn that the Baaz leader has a name! He's Captain Zerkaz. =)

A Dragon Never Fall, We Rise

paring: Muerte/Death + Jake Sully x Dragon! f! reader. Warning: slighty smut, implied, bad writing,

word count: 900-1000

Author's note: except nasty smut her,e,, my dragonlings! I could improve at writing smut, which isn't like full, so there is no age regestirgio,n really. just enjoy

In the depths of the ancient cave, where secrets whispered on the tongues of flickering flames, a tapestry of enigmatic connections unfolded. Amidst the twilight's dance, a wolf and a celestial being converged, their presence a mystifying blend of incongruity and solace. Within your sacred culinary domain, where flavors mingled and aromas beckoned, you fashioned a feast befitting the grandeur of a dragon's palate.

Yet, before indulging in the succulent bounty, a hand, gentle and fleeting, graced your exposed waist, rousing your senses. Your tail unfurled, a graceful serpentine motion, while wings and shoulders instinctively tensed. A deep, resonant chuckle, brimming with untamed echoes, stirred the air, drawing your gaze to the source of amusement.

"Jake Sully," you hissed playfully, your voice a melodious incantation, "beware the sinuous nature of dragons. To venture unnoticed is to court a dance with death. Even the wolf holds wisdom beyond your grasp."

A dance of banter and camaraderie ensued, as growls and smirks painted the canvas of their interaction. Jake, a steadfast presence, approached with reverence, his hands finding solace upon your rump. Growls mingled, fangs revealed, yet beneath the playful exchange lay an undercurrent of respect, a symphony of dominance and submission.

Amidst this delicate interplay, a sentient silence descended upon the cave. From the shadows, a familiar figure emerged, drawn inexorably to your side. In his embrace, you found sanctuary, your wings enveloping him with a tender embrace. The intertwining of souls transcended words, as the purity of your connection spoke volumes.

In a voice that trailed like a serpentine whisper, you soothed the tormented spirit. "Hush, Muerte, does Gatiot still haunt your dreams? Let the currents of fate guide him, for his path must unfold in its own time. Release the chains of your pursuit, and grant him the freedom to discover his destiny. Your vigil has endured, a testament to your unwavering resolve."

The weight of truth bore upon Muerte's visage, his gaze intermingling with yours in a frosty exchange. Resolute yet burdened, he retreated into the ephemeral shadows, his purpose awaiting fulfillment in the tapestry of existence.

Beside Jake, you now found respite, the three of you gathered around the sacred hearth, where sustenance merged with the essence of life. A tableau of unconventional kinship, forged in the crucible of extraordinary bonds, embraced the fragile harmony of the moment. In this twilight realm, where love defied logic and loyalty defied convention, you savored the enigma of existence, each morsel a testament to the interconnectedness of souls entwined.

comment down if yall want a pt. 2

finished our dragonlance campaign today with the friday guys! it was almost precisely a year long, which is so incredibly satisfying. i wish we'd had a bit more room for character exploration but of course that's not really the destiny of preconstructed campaigns. i thought the whole general plot of this thing was rather uninspired, but we had a great party that shook out in some interesting ways. this was my first experience having to actually level up into multiclassing and it was distinctly middling. but even though my character was someone i threw together last minute with very little forethought, i did become very fond of her and i am sorry to say goodbye!!

Dragonlance Destinies Book 2: Dragons of Fate cover reveal!

Following the events of Book 1, Raistlin, Sturm, Tasselhoff, and Destina find themselves in the past during the Third Dragon War. Release date August 2023. Artist for the new trilogy is Philipp Urlich

Look at my boy. JUST LOOK AT HIM!!!!

my inspirations for my Worldbuilding project Heritage (if you have any suggestions, please comment/ask/reblog!)

Adventure Time, Akira, Aliens, Alternative History Iceberg by AlternateHistoryHub, Amphibia, Apex Legends, Atlas Shrugged, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Back To The Future, Berserk, Blade Runner, Blood Meridian, Borderlands, Breaking Bad, Chainsaw Man, Chaos Walking Trilogy, Clarence, Classic Horror Movies Verse, Conan The Barbarian, Conspiracy Theory Iceberg by Wendigoon, Coraline, Cowboy Bebop, Creepypasta, Cryptids, Cyberpunk, DC, Dead Poets Society, Dead Space, Demon Slayer, Destiny, Discworld, Doctor Who, Donnie Darko, Doom, Dragon Age, Dragonlance, Dune, Eberron, Elric, Escape From New York, Exandria, Fall Out, Forgotten Realms, Frostpunk, Game Of Thrones, Gods And Demons Wiki Fandom, Good Omens, Gorillaz, Gravity Falls, Greyhawk, Grzybjek OC’S, Harry Potter Timeline Up Until Marauders, Hellboy, Helluva Boss, His Dark Materials, Horizon, Hyperion, Hyrule, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, Image Universe, Inside Job, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Kingverse, Kipo And The Age Of The Wonderbeasts, Life Is Strange, Local 58, Love And Monsters, Lovecraft Mythos, Love Death + Robots, Madmax, Magic The Gathering, Marvel, Mass Effect, Maze Runner, Men In Black, Merlin, Middle Earth, Monstergarden, Monsterverse, Mortal Engines, Multiverse Tales PopCross Studios, Mystara, Mystery Flesh National Park, Nimona, Nowhere On Air, Olivers Antics irl OC’s, Osemanverse, Outlaw Star, Overwatch, Owl House, Oxenfree, Planet Of The Apes, Power Puff Girls, Preacher, Predator, Punk Rock Jesus, Radiant Citadel, Ravenloft, Resident Evil, Rick And Morty, Runeterra, Sandman Slim, Schoolbus Graveyard, Scooby Doo, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, SCP, She Ra, Skyrim, Snowpiercer, Solar Opposites, South Park Band AU, Spelljammer, Star Trek, Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil, Star Wars Canon & Legends (Sequel Trilogy = Star Wars - How To Kill A Franchise by The Closer Look), Stranger Things, Sunflowers And Lavender, Sweet Tooth, Tales From The Loop, Tank Girl, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Backrooms, The Blooming Dead, The Boys (only show), The Breakfast Club, The Creator, The Crow, The Dark Crystal, The Hunger Games, The Lands Between, The Last Kingdom, The Last Of Us, The Magnus Archives, The Matrix, The Monument Mythos, The Road, The Sandman, The Squidder, The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, The Umbrella Academy, The Walking Dead, The Yaetuan Sagas, Threads, Toastchild OC’s, Transmetropolitan, V For Vendetta, Warhammer 40k, Warhammer AoS, War Of The World’s, Willow, Witcher, Y The Last Man

For ask game Hunter/Luz, their poly with Amity(and maybe Willow??xD) and mmmm King/Collector?👉👈

Lunter

What made you ship it? - they just have really good chemistry! like, idk, it's such a slamdunk of an otp - plucky naive optimistic protagonist slowly learning that her actions have consequences and that she has to go out and make the life she wants to have vs waiting for it to just happen to her, with a strong moral center and a desire to help meets abused captive prince in service to the evil emperor and gets through to him with The Power Of Friendship, putting him on the path to questioning the regime he's served for his entire life? What's More Classic Than That? and they're such foils to each other, too. Hunter is literally living the YA fantasy protagonist life that Luz wants in the beginning, except she's mentally living in like DragonLance and he's in a Joe Abercrombie novel - she's in classic swords n sorcery fantasy and Hunter is living in gritty grimdark low fantasy. having a 'destiny' fucking sucks, actually. it was all just a lie used to control him, and even when he still believed it he felt constrained and suffocated by it. their relationship is just so fascinating to me too because they have such an intense bond with each other, despite not necessarily being like... that close? they know each other's most damaging secrets, even though they're both better friends with other members of the group. they rely on each other so much. holy codependence! and for all the contrast between them, they have a lot of things in common too! Hunter's also a very optimistic person, it's just that his life sucks so bad all his best case scenarios are still completely horrible. they both have personal experiences with loss and alienation, they both tend to take on more than they can handle and hold themselves responsible for things beyond their control, they both have huge guilt complexes, they both cope through fiction and fantasy lives... they just have a really solid relationship, and adding romance and/or sex to it feels like a very natural evolution of what's already there.

What are your favorite things about the ship? - uhhh i think i kind of already said most of that up there, lmao... i just love how well they play off of each other, how similar and different they are, the way that Hunter is literally living the life Luz thought she wanted, the way they both see themselves and each other as leaders of the group and feel like the others depend on them...

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? - the potential pseudo-incest angle of them being found family only makes it better tbh i'm not really sure because i'm not 100% sure what the popular vs unpopular opinions about the ship are! i think the hand-wringing about how shipping Luz and Hunter erases Lumity is kinda dumb - no amount of shipping is going to take away the canon relationship, and a lot of it ends up sounding like "well she's Not As Queer if she's involved with a guy" which is uhhh biphobic hmm... i definitely don't think Hunter is actually any more responsible or less impulsive than Luz, he's just better at rationalizing and has more actual experience with military logistics and mission planning. also my ideal dynamic for them is like, Bitter Academic Rivals/Collaborators (they're both at once, yes, even and especially if they're fucking) - i want them to end up being researchers into glyph magic who work together fantastically but also vocally trash each other's methods and conclusions from time to time and are in fierce competition.

the rest of it is under the cut!

Lumiter

What made you ship it? - the fact that i love Lunter and also don't want to break up Lumity and also love polyshipping, tbh. also, Hunter and Amity have a really fascinating dynamic as metamours

What are your favorite things about the ship? - the poly dynamics, definitely, and specifically the relationship between Hunter and Amity - i just think those two have a ton of incredibly fascinating potential! Hunter and Luz are so close and know so many of each other's worst secrets, but Hunter and Amity both know what it's like to grow up in an emotionally abusive, controlling home, which is something that none of the other kids can relate to at all. so i just love the fact that they share that and i love to think about them relating to each other more deeply on that basis and being able to understand and comfort each other in ways that neither of them can really get from the others, because sometimes it just... no matter how kind or sympathetic or understanding someone else is, there is just often something different about the quality of understanding from someone who's gone through similar trauma, things about the experience of being abused and traumatized that you can both relate to each other about that others can't - often not even big things, either, but just kind of littler more mundane aspects of the experience that can feel so unreal and bizarre and alienating to live with until you find someone else who knows what it's like

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? - i don't think that Amity being a lesbian necessarily precludes her from being sexually involved with Hunter in some capacity in a poly scenario, and personally i find it a lot more interesting to explore how her lesbian identity might impact the ways she sees and engages with him sexually than to just blanket declare it totally off-limits and forbidden to even think about.

Lumiter + Willow is very similar tbh - i love big poly clusterfucks, i love a whole friendgroup who are all kinda in love with each other, i definitely love Luz/Willow and Amity/Willow action (and the potential for awkwardness there, PLUS the potential for like, Hunter and Amity getting really competitive over who's a better significant other...)

King/Collector

What made you ship it? - i don't know if i'm like an active shipper of it but i think it's cute! they have a lot in common and a lot to connect about, both being long-lived extremely powerful beings, and i think that they could easily end up being extremely important to each other. they also exist as narrative foils to each other and bounce off each other in really interesting ways.

What are your favorite things about the ship? - i think just seeing it as kind of a domestication arc sort of thing! it's sort of a Beauty and the Beast type of scenario, except the beastlike demonic creature is the Beauty and the more or less humanoid one is the Beast! the Collector is what King could have ended up like, if he hadn't been taken in by Eda and raised like a person. the Collector is obviously a very neglected and very traumatized kid, whose only company for the last couple of centuries has been A Literal Fucking Serial Killer And Child Predator, so like, of course they don't understand the value of another person's life or have a very robust sense of morality - they've spent the last couple centuries watching Philip break his toys over and over again and just make a new one whenever, and that's been his only social contact at all. so there's an element of tragedy, a "there but for the grace of God go i", and i think that puts King in the best position to reach the Collector and show him that there's a different way to be. King could extend that helping hand and offer them care and support, including the extremely loving action of "telling someone when they are being a huge asshole and alienating everyone around them with their own behavior." also, they're just little guys, it would be so cute?? like what an adorable pre-adolescent baby crush scenario. and maybe them being bffs who grow up and develop feelings for each other... so many cute options!

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? - uhhhh i truly do not know because i have no idea what the actual opinions are here. sorry!

❛  destiny will give you no rest. a long road lies ahead.  ❜ (from varric to mal!)

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the mage snorted.  did people   ...   really believe in that?   destiny?   the thought could make a tired old dragon mad.  a romantic notion for storytellers,   perhaps.   not for anyone else.  not for him.   “not really destiny if i came here by choice,   is it?”   he’d had to see the rift for himself.   few things caught his attention or interest.   curiosity had always been his weakness,   even as a dragonling.   time had mostly stifled that need to chase what he shouldn’t.   he ran his hands back through his hair and set his elbows on the counter,   doing his best to ignore maryden’s ungodly warbling.   “don't know if it’s as bad as they say it is elsewhere,   but i think i can handle a few demons.”   stupid creatures,   unable to see past their own desires.   “or anything,   long as i don’t have to hobble through any swamps.”

Astinus of Palanthas portrait - MEDM the DM - digital art, commission https://www.artstation.com/artwork/14kJDe

Dragonlance Fandom: A portrait of Astinus of Palanthas, with the likeness of the Dungeon Master Sean "MEDM" Anderson, commission. "Astinus: the Ageless One, was the master historian of Ansalon, who many likened to the god Gilean himself. He was the master historian of Ansalon, who many likened to the god Gilean himself.He worked for the preservation of history and treated everything with as little emotion or bias as possible. Astinus was careful to almost never intervene in any situation, so as not to disturb the flow of history by his actions. As the epitome of neutrality, he constantly worked night and day in his study, rarely saw visitors and also rarely allowed any of his books to be taken out of the Great Library of Palanthas." As Dungeon Master for the Dragonlance 5th edition Podcast "Echoes of Krynn", he's like Astinus, watching over the destiny of the characters. To know more about said podcast, very well done, check: www.echoesofkrynn.com MEDM as professional Dungeon Master: https://startplaying.games/gm/medm

yea what i was talking about to whither-wander-whump was Dragonlance, like you guessed. Dragonlance Legends specifically (so, in case you're not sure which one that was, the premise is basically that the mage Raistlin wants to become a god, his twin brother Caramon needs to do a bunch of character development and stop being emotionally dependent on Raistlin, and the cleric Crysania wants to redeem Raistlin and Raistlin uses that to manipulate her to help himself). I've just been having brainrot abt it, like Dragonlance isn't even really a main fandom for me - honestly I haven't even really looked into what sort of a fandom exists for it, i've just been. you know. having brainrot abt it and suffering silently on my own, lmao. (I haven't even read that much of the franchise, and I'm further hindered by the fact that my local library mostly only has translated copies which I refuse to touch because the one time I read one of the books translated, the translation quality was awful. So anyway for now all I've read is Chronicles, Legends, and the first book of Destinies.)

Anyway for some reason my brain has decided it's fun to poke at Caramon a little bit (literally this wasn't a choice my brain just went okay we're rotating him now, without asking my opinion, you know how it is sometimes) and i've been toying with some "okay no way in hell he's actually just fine at the end of the story, he's gotta be traumatized as fuck after all that, what if I make him break down a lil bit over everything and then throw in some comfort" kinda thing. Y'know, a good old-fashioned aftermath angst / hurt/comfort fic. And I just feel like a few extra scars and an injury that didn't really heal properly or some lil things like that could be fun to add into the mix. anyway yea idk i'll probably never actually write it anyway cuz my brain is stupid

(also i ended up even reading the books in literally the stupidest weirdest most roundabout "how the fuck did you even manage that" way, it's ridiculous, but that's beside the point)

Cool! Like I said, dragonlance has never been my main focus, but I definitely read at least the first book of chronicles and I remember Raistlin but not his twin for some reason. It might be because I read it somewhere between 8 and 11 years ago lmao.

If you do actually get words on paper, the two routes I primarily see in fanfic in D&D universes to keep cannon injuries around are 1. removing magical healing that happened in cannon or 2. making a unique injury harder to heal/fully recover from than was established in cannon. For injuries invented for the fanfic writers just exclude clerics and include limited healing potions it seems.

I just now thought of a secret third option that could be a vibe: phantom pain from an injury that was healed but for whatever reason that character's brain didn't catch on. Maintains cannon injury -> magical healing status but fits nicely with emotional stress.

Anyway fucking mood on not being able to find copies of these older series, I've been trying to hook myself up with legend of drizzt ebooks for a while but Hoopla straight up removed the prequel trilogy at some point and libby's options from my branch are sporadic at best and always checked out. If I'm buying books I want physical copies and I do NOT have the space for that lol. Or the funds really.

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Destina's Guilt

Join us as we break down our thoughts on Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s newest installment in the Dragonlance saga, Dragons of Destiny, and share a few predictions for the next volume! SPOILER WARNING! https://ttjourneys.com/archives/podcast/episode-138-dragons-of-fate

69. Laura and Tracy Hickman - Rahasia (1979)

Not published by TSR, Rahasia is still relevant for a couple of reasons, first it is often considered the first adventure module fully written by a woman, Laura Hickman, however later editions included Tracy, her husband as a co-author. The extent to which this was the case is debatable, but it would also signal the entrance of Tracy Hickman into D&D. Tracy would become one of the most important authors for D&D when he created Dragonlance together with Margeret Weis, a creation and collaboration that is still going on today (look at 2022 Dragons of Destiny novel set in the Dragonlance universe and published by WotC).

I am not discussing this module further because it is a really rare and expensive one and I don't have access to the 1979 version, but it will be reprinted at least twice later on, as RPGA1 and B7 in the 80s. So we'll look at it in depth when we get there! 

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Gift Giving Guide 2022

Happy holidays! If you'd like to give someone a book by me this holiday season (and if so, thank you and I love you!!!), but you don't know which one to give to which reader, I thought I'd share a gift guide:

BOOKS FOR KIDS (AGES 8-12)

For the kid who loves talking animals and baked goods… THE SHELTERLINGS, a fantasy book for kids about a squirrel named Holly and her friends at the Shelter for Rejected Familiars.

For the kid with a sister or the kid who always wanted to walk through a portal to another world... EVEN AND ODD, a fantasy book for kids about two sisters who share magic. Also starring a unicorn named Jeremy.

For the kid who loves cats... CATALYST, a fantasy book for kids about a girl who finds a tiny kitten that grows and grows and grows... and then starts talking!

For the quiet kid or the kid who loves dragons... SPARK, a fantasy book for kids about a quiet girl and her lightning dragon who learn you don't need to change yourself to change the world.

For the kid who knows the power of stories... THE STONE GIRL'S STORY, a fantasy book for kids about a twelve-year-old girl made of living stone on a quest to save her family.

For the kid who wants a loyal best friend who has tentacles and loves cupcakes... THE GIRL WHO COULD NOT DREAM, a fantasy book for kids about a girl whose family owns a secret shop where they buy, bottle, and sell dreams.

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

For the reader who watched the extended edition of The Lord of the Rings, dabbled in D&D, and/or remembers the Dragonlance books fondly... THE BONE MAKER, a standalone epic fantasy about five heroes 25 years after they defeated an evil wizard and his bone army.

For the reader who thinks the Indy-500 would be better if the cars had a lot more teeth and tentacles... RACE THE SANDS, a standalone epic fantasy about monster racing (and smashing the patriarchy).

For the reader who likes kickass women and very tall trees... THE QUEEN OF BLOOD, Book One of the Queens of Renthia, an epic fantasy trilogy about bloodthirsty nature spirits.

For the reader who likes sea monsters... THE DEEPEST BLUE, a standalone epic fantasy about kickass women, a trial to become queen, and a LOT of sea monsters.

BOOKS FOR TEENS

For the teen who likes snark... DRINK SLAY LOVE, a YA fantasy about a 16-year-old vampire girl who is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn and develops a very inconvenient conscience.

For the teen who loves fairy-tale romance... ICE, a Beauty-and-the-Beast retelling, set in the present-day Arctic.

For the teen who wishes Ocean's Eleven had more dragons... FIRE AND HEIST, a YA fantasy about a socialite were-dragon who must lead her first heist in order to be accepted by her family of master thieves.

For the teen who wants to be swept away on an adventure... VESSEL, a YA epic fantasy, set in a desert land, about finding your own destiny.

For the teen who is thinking about college... ENCHANTED IVY, a YA fantasy about getting into college (and also were-tigers, talking gargoyles, and dragons).

And for the reader who wants the very newest book... THE LAKE HOUSE, my YA survival thriller about three girls stranded in the wilderness of Maine, is coming out in April 2023 from HarperTeen and is available for preorder!

For more info on these and any of my other books, please visit http://www.sarahbethdurst.com

If you'd like a signed bookplate (a clear sticker that I'd personalize and you can stick inside any of my books to transform them into signed books) for yourself or for a gift, please drop me an email (sarah AT sarahbethdurst DOT com), and I'd be happy to mail you one (US only).

Happy holidays, and thanks for reading!