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megan-karau · 2 months
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you've gotta be kidding me if there's not enough fanart of Raist when he becomes a god.
this is based of the book description (except the horns/ears???): - his figure is blacker than the darkness around him - only his eyes can be seen - astinus sees his hands clench so he must have hands - described as 'black robed figure' (kinda forgot abt that)
i tried to make the horns kinda like rabbit ears cuz yeah lol
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skull-bearer · 1 year
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Chapters: 12/13 Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere, Dalamar/Nuitari/Raistlin Majere Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar the Dark, Ladonna (Dragonlance), Par-Salian (Dragonlance), Dunbar Mastersmate, Bupu (Dragonlance), Caramon Majere, Crysania (Dragonlance), Tanis Half-Elven, Kitiara uth Matar, Iolanthe (Dragonlance), Takhisis (Dragonlance) Additional Tags: Misunderstandings, godhood, Deicide, Heartbreak, Regret, Lies, Slightly Nicer Than Canon!Raistlin, In Love And In Denial!Dalamar, Absolute Bastard As Usual!Par-Salian, Pure Cinnamon Roll!Bupu, Slightly Bigger Pure Cinnamon Roll!Dunbar, Mage cheerleading squad, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Killing Gods As a Bonding Experience, No Beta We Die Like Par-Salian Should Have, Thrown Off The Top Of Wayreth By Dunbar Mastermate, Legends AU, happier than canon, Hourglass Mage Compliant Summary:
In a slightly kinder world, Raistlin makes his bid for Godhood.
Chapter 12: We’ve Opened Our Eyes Now it’s Changing the View Raistlin and Dalamar. Raistlin and Caramon. Dalamar and Palin. Bupu.
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solvicrafts · 2 months
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Watching one of my best friends re-read the Dragonlance Chronicles has been an incredible experience, especially since I've been re-reading WotSQ and uh... there are some hilarious similarities that were absolutely not intentional.
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general-kalani · 25 days
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Oh yeah forgot Raistlin and Dragonlance needs to come back as a section on the muselist.
Who wants to harass a magic user who constantly watches people and the world around him die thanks to cursed eyesight, literally called the "Master of the Past and Present" and is haunted by a ghost so bad his skin's literally gold to make sure he doesn't get possessed by said ghost and is 1d4 away from fucking dying to coughs that are bloodied up-
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every day that i read dragons of autumn twilight i am cupping raistlin's golden face in my hands and i am saying to him, i am saying to him "you are not less of a person because you're disabled, and you are not evil because of it, and you are not less of a man because of it, and your friends are incredibly shit"
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cosmik-homo · 11 months
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Me: idk i just see such great and interesting potential in how things can be Different on krynn post war of the lance that I think isn't really explored rn with-
Me seeing any chaos war/war of the souls/age of mortals content: don't care didn't ask plus you're not canon to me. I kinda just meant the wizard bureaucracy
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windtraces · 2 years
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i have this horrible crazy idea where i get my dad and stepmom into a game of dnd. idk who else would join the party but, my god, it would be so fun imo. i need to dm a game with them. preferably the one i already have planned because it Rules
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bloody-shadow666 · 1 year
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Raistlin Majere (dragonlance) was my original blorbo btw and I'm pretty sure this has shaped how I feel about all other characters. If they are not bastards they are no fun.
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wizardbracket · 1 year
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Round 1: Match 21 of 64
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Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:
Ged:
“The mix of pride and wounds. The gentleness and power. The greatness and the goats. I love my boy so much.”
“He is simply a little wizard guy who goes on little wizard adventures and journeys of self-discovery.”
“This man went to wizard school and beat up his own shadow”
Raistlin:
“Most powerful mage on Krynn, became Master of Past and Present, almost kids all the gods but stopped and instead kept the Queen of Darkness locked away. Continued cleaning up messes even after death.”
“Raistlin is THE wizard in the Dragonlance series. He's known for wearing a red cloak and a black one when he goes through his evil/emo phase and he's always carrying his staff and book of incantations with him. He studied a lot to become the powerful wizard he is, you know? like a nerd, and that turned his skin gold and his hair white. But everything comes with a price cause the magic he uses also makes him more physically weak than he already was and you can often see him coughing blood after using a big chunk of his powers :( He depends a lot on his twin brother Caramon cause he's the strong one and he carries him everywhere when he's too weak to move by himself and Raistlin resents him because of it. He's kind of an asshole but no one is on his level when it comes to his magical powers. All in all, he's a beloved character on the series and he also probably needs a ton of therapy. I love me a complex wizard with a tragic backstory.”
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melkormajere · 25 days
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Disabled characters in fantasy and why the entire bullshit surrounding the ableistic arguments about disabilities in fantasy. Where people think that mobility devices in gaming could 'easily' be 'fixed' with magic and why it is incredibly frustrating.
OR What Raistlin Majere means to me as a disabled person. a Rant.
Why Raistlin Majere (And other disabled characters are important in fantasy). There's been a lot of discussion of accessibility devices being used in games. Talking about how it's 'lazy because magic can fix everything'. We would not have any of Dragonlance if it wasn't for Raistlin Majere. He is a canonically disabled mage, who was kinda (was) a jerk. He was very nuanced and important. Basic mage needs and 'spellslots' are an important part of fantasy. Much like our human bodies that require rest and nourishment, fantasy doesn't eliminate that. Raistlin Majere went to become a real mage and had to go through excruitating trials to prove he was capable of wearing his mage robes. During all of that he did some BAD things, and he offered his body to a even worse mage to help him. The Mage drained him regulary. Raistlin already was born disabled. His own self loathing against his able bodied brother was interesting, and while I could write tons about that too, that isn't what this is about entirely because there's more than that. He often felt left out, tired and rather useless and magic was what gave him 'strength'. Due to multiple things that happened to him he wanted to challenge the gods themselves and become the most powerful mage. (There's a lot more to this but for simplifying we are going with this). This is also not me condoning using disability as a 'punishment', but Raistlin already was disabled and was further pained when doing his mage trial. I've seen arguments about how gods/temples would help anyone disabled and therefore disabilities wouldn't work. Someone took a tiny bit of pity (ugh) on him and offered him something to help ease his pain, let's just call it medication for simplicity sake again. That was the most charity, even the most powerful clerics couldn't heal him or help him, whether in childhood or adulthood. Eventually he almost completely healed himself but was still very much dealing with various forms of pain, whether emotional etc. He is known as the most powerful wizard on krynn.
If we take all of that away we take away an incredibly interesting character whose disabilities helped elevate the games in which he was played in. When you work together you can accomplish so much more. When his friends were actual friends they accomplished so much together they seriously did. Yet due to his abbrasive personality he was rarely praised for the war of the lance until much later. Even his title of "hero of the lance" always seemed to come with talks about him being rather shitty until later. Throughout Dragonlance as a series (beyond the core novels) we have a lot of disabled characters and throughout the years as humans become more aware of how to write disabled characters differently we have gotten a lot more out of them and a lot more of them each providing such interesting parts to these beloved books. At an even simpler level we have gollum/smeagol, another canonical disabled charater who was kinda dick too. However without him, Frodo may not have been able to actually destroy the ring at all, and if we go even deeper into Tolkien's lore we can discover more disabled characters whether titled as such or not that seemed to be a reflection of what he experience during the war and coming back. Disabilities exist in fantasy and in the real world, and some of us chose to create characters with disabilites, and I'd really much like to believe that we can get along because the world is already inaccessible enough. Let your players use various modes of accessability if needed/wanted. Erasing these beautiful and nuanced characters would erase so much of what makes fantasy so incredible and accepting. It's always been such a mostly accepting genre, it's a way to fantasize and sometimes it's nice even in a regular day to fantasize what a beautifully crafted accessability device might look like. So rather than argue online for hours for "why disability makes no sense in fantasy" could we change it to " I am capable of creativity and inclusion". It's your fantasy game, so you get to be beautifully creative.
However, if you REALLY would take away disabilities in game because it's your fantasy game then say bye to
Raistlin Majere
Frodo -Gollum
Toph
John Silver
Captain Hook
Your random peg legged pirate
Your eye patch
Geordi La Forge
Vader
Luke
Furiosa
Matt Murdock
Professor X
Deadpool
Kanan Jarrus
Steven Strange
Bucky Barnes
War Machine
Elijah Price (And so so many more this is the lazy amount because I am SO FUCKING FED UP OF PEOPLE NOT BEING INCLUSIVE IN DND SPACES AND ONLINE) Brought to you by an angry disabled person. (I love you take good care of yourselves, also this is nuanced and not entirely encompassing all my thoughts nor does it have to be your view as a disabled person. I love you be good to yourself today please.)
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curiouselleth · 3 months
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Raistlin is Eru? Go on...
Hi @backgroundelf!
Thanks for asking, I'm thrilled to share it with someone new! A forewarning, however; this got a bit long, I had a lot of fun writing it all out lol 😂😅
So, Raistlin is Eru is a crack theory I've been rotating on and off for a little while.
I think I got the idea during a conversation about Eru and the Valar, specifically how Eru seemed to be so hands off after the Valar entered Arda, and how the only actions he seemed to take were preventing the Valar from doing things that would endanger the world, namely during the Ainulindalë, preventing too much discord in the music and going to war with Numenor.
And it just kinda popped into my head. Maybe it was the specific phrasing of discord in the music that reminded me of some of Lord of Nothing from the Last Trial:
(this is from the 2021 english dub on youtube)
"It's not too late yet, to play a new song, clear the discord and correct what went wrong!"
Then a few lines later:
"It's not too late yet, to fix the problem-- change the dissonant song that life has become, not too late! For a new world, one of harmony suppressing the old!"
And I just started thinking about it, and it kinda made sense? Still in a crack theory way but oh my gosh it made sense. It would explain Eru's lack of interference, he saw the damage that gods outside a world, not living in it could cause. I haven't finished the Dragonlance Legends trilogy yet, but from the Chronicles with Paladine living in the world not using his full powers and being part of it (a bit like Gandalf in hindsight), that seemed to work a lot better! So only those who were a part of it - the valar - had the power to more actively shape it.
But then, things that threaten the very world's existence like the discord in the music or the valar going to war with Numenor? He reacts. And in the case of Numenor - violently.
And as I was just reading a Dragonlance timeline, the similarities between Dragonlance and the Silmarillion are prominent. I won't go into detail, there's far too much and I've barely skimmed it.
He saw the catastrophic damage to Beleriand and it's peoples during the war of wrath. A continent rented and destroyed. He will not see his world hurt again. So when Numenor invades, he fears what the Valar would do when attacked, because the damage in Beleriand when they weren't attacked was so bad, what happens when they feel they need to defend themselves? So he drowns Numenor, he destroys the Numenorians in Valinor, he bends the world and removes Valinor, removes the valar, from it. They could have good intentions, the best intentions, but he will protect his world. He will not see his world destroyed again.
But it's not just that. The Numenorians wished to become immortal. Wished to challenge the valar, the gods to get it. How long until they wish for more than immortality, how long until they wish for the powers of the Valar, how long until they wish to become gods? Almost exactly. Like. Him.
So he utterly destroys them so none but the faithful escape, so none will survive to continue pursing this goal, just like him. Just like how he wished he would've been stopped. He saves his world. But it is irreversibly changed.
After a time, the Valar play less and less of a roll in the world, as the world grows away from him. He has too seen what happens when gods are worshipped for too long. More war, more death, more destruction. Maybe it wouldn't happen the same way in this new world. But he will not risk it.
Even though he planned an end of his world, he planned it to be renewed. Without hurt.
You can see him in the gift of men too. He has known long ages in the abyss. Completely alone, nothing, desolate, but the worst, knowing that it was never going to end. Never. Shackled to this eternity. So he gives them the gift to leave, that he wished for more times over than he could count.
But he puts eternity on the elves. I haven't fully thought this part out, perhaps after Arda is made anew, Arda unmarred, he has planned a end for himself. Not necessarily suicide, but an end. Stepping away, going where his spirit will. This life ending and becoming something new. And that is why he leaves eternity on the elves. So, as a race, they may step in to fill the gap he left. Not as gods, not that powerful. But all of them together sharing the power. It becoming their world. And perhaps after a somewhat similar cycle of being in that role for some time, they get to be in control of their fate. And they get to change it as Raistlin changed his fate of eternity as a god.
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But how did this happen? How did Raistlin make a new world when it was too late? *insert entirety of Lord of Nothing here*
The flame imperishable. It's so mysterious in the Silmarillion. We know so little.
So how did it come to be?
Raistlin spent many ages in the abyss. Some more clear than the others, some with not a thread of sanity. It would come and go. But over time, he grows a little. As a person.
His realization of how deeply wrong his actions were tormented him endlessly. But it was what saved him. He dwelt on it, reflected and grew. He gained compassion and empathy. The grief for what he did, the pain he caused others in trying to avoid it himself gnawed at him. Consuming him. But he learned, and became better.
The multiverse is semi-canonical in Dragonlace. When the world had died, other gods saw. How sad, a few thought. How foolish, many more thought. Then they moved on.
Uncounted ages later, one looks back. And sees with a shock that Raistlin has changed so much. And decides to give him a second chance. If he hasn't changed enough he will just fail, nothing more coming from it. "One without a heart cannot create life," (paraphrasing Takhisis.)
The god gives Raistlin the barest of sparks. Raistlin doesn't notice for a long time, he had long ago retreated to one of the corners of the abyss. If such a thing exists in a endless void.
But, he finds it. He searches for the one who left it but nothing. He studies it, cautious. Is he imagining it? It wouldn't be the first time he was hallucinating. But no, it's real. There is no outside influence on it. It's just there. A chance.
For a long time, he does nothing. He is so afraid, what if he fails again, what if he actually hasn't grown? (I'd like to think he also gained at least a little self awareness over time lol)
Eventually, he decides. He goes for it. He nurtures the tiny spark, he nurtures it and cares for it and protects it and it grows, and grows, and grows. It grows into the Flame Imperishable.
And he finally is brave enough to do it, to create life. And he creates the Valar. The Maiar. They create the world. He fears that he is too flawed to do it alone.
Ainulindalë happens. The world is made, he is secretly delighted when the dwarves are made, but he will not change The Plan (TM) this early, too risky, they'll have to wait their turn. The elves and men come, the Two Trees come and go, the First age, the Second, time goes on and time. The stories we love happen and are written and forgotten as time ticks ever forward. As Raistlin's world lives.
He knows it will never be enough to make up for his mistakes. There is no atoning for killing his first world. But he does everything he can to make this one good, and life flourishes.
There's just so many parallels and Eru's actions can be explained and make sense in a way, Raistlin's choices, his history and experiences drive him to do differently, to act out to prevent others from making the same choices, and to make a different ending. He sees the parallels, the similarities too but makes sure that there will be a different ending.
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I'll definitely write this eventually, but my silm cyoa fic Be He Foe or Friend is really getting away from me and getting bigger so it might be a while. I just know if I have more than one big writing project going at once I won't finish anything lol. I don't know, maybe I'll start figuring out a plot or something soon lol.
I really haven't read many of the Dragonlance books yet, I'm mostly just using knowledge from the musical, chronicles, and the first and second books of the legends trilogy, so I don't know if all of it is really accurate to the books. But it's still fun lol
Sorry this got SO long, I was curious so I stuck this whole thing in a doc (minus the tags lol) and its 1590 words 🤣
Thank you so so much for the ask, 💖💖💖 I really enjoyed talking about this and if you have questions or want to talk about it more I'd LOVE to lol.
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9mothsinspace · 2 months
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I found a BUNCH of ancient Dragonlance sketches I made as a kid. They made me giggle so here you go.
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The truly ancient ones from about 9 years ago.
Raistlin suffering his nightmare of footsteps in the sand.
Raistlin and Takhisis.
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Raistlin and Caramon entering the Inn of the Last Home to meet their friends.
Raistlin in Neraka, awaiting Caramon in the temple of Takhisis.
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One Sturm (how proud of the armor I was back then)
A bunch of Raistlins that are so funny to me now
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Skip a few years ahead.
Takhisis watching Raistlin on his way through the Abbeys.
The boat incident. Poor Flint.
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Raistlin and Caramon (makes me kinda cringe today)
Raistlin aiding Caramon after his fight with Steelfoot (legends)
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Raistlin calling out to Kitiara when she is about to attack them in the Bloodsea of Istar.
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Tasslehoff
Tasslehoff and Flint
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Tasslehoff and Fizban
Fizban's golden dragon with Laurana's ring
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Random draconians
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Raistlin and Caramon on a pegasus on their way to Xak Tsaroth.
Raistlin as a god, sitting on corpses of people he knew
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Raistlin and Crysania, both
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More random Raistlin sketches.
Wow. I can't even fit all of these in one post. I cringe a bit with some of these but overall they are such fond memories.
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skull-bearer · 1 year
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Chapters: 7/? Fandom: Dragonlance - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Dalamar the Dark/Raistlin Majere Characters: Raistlin Majere, Dalamar the Dark, Ladonna (Dragonlance), Par-Salian (Dragonlance), Dunbar Mastersmate, Bupu (Dragonlance), Caramon Majere, Crysania (Dragonlance), Tanis Half-Elven, Kitiara uth Matar, Iolanthe (Dragonlance), Takhisis (Dragonlance) Additional Tags: Misunderstandings, godhood, Deicide, Heartbreak, Regret, Lies, Slightly Nicer Than Canon!Raistlin, In Love And In Denial!Dalamar, Absolute Bastard As Usual!Par-Salian, Pure Cinnamon Roll!Bupu, Slightly Bigger Pure Cinnamon Roll!Dunbar, Mage cheerleading squad, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Killing Gods As a Bonding Experience, No Beta We Die Like Par-Salian Should Have, Thrown Off The Top Of Wayreth By Dunbar Mastermate, Legends AU, happier than canon, Hourglass Mage Compliant Summary:
In a slightly kinder world, Raistlin makes his bid for Godhood.
Chapter 8: Meanwhile A Man Was Falling From Space Reunions after the battle
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solvicrafts · 11 months
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I kind of want to just like... take Raistlin and Kitiara out of Dragonlance and put them in the Forgotten Realms where Raistlin no longer has to carry the entire series as its one developed character and Kitiara can actually be treated like a character and not just some gross fantasy.
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dndhistory · 5 months
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288. Tracy Hickman - DL1: Dragons of Despair (1984)
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The first module in the Dragonlance campaign, Dragons of Despair is a completely new concept for an adventure module. Heavily focused on story it straddles the line between roleplaying game and interactive fiction, and where you fall in terms of opinion on the module completely depends on what experience you want from the game.
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The interactive fiction element of the module is underlined by the fact that the module strongly advises, right from the start, that the party uses the pre-rolled characters included in the module. If you are familiar with Dragonlance these aren't just any characters, these are Tanis, Raistlin, Caramon, Tasslehof, Flint, Goldmoon and so on, these are central pieces of the story being told. Most central of all is Goldmoon who carries her Staff of Mishakal, an artifact of the gods that are supposedly gone from the world of Krynn. The module's main objective is to take Goldmoon to the Disks of Mishakal with which she will be able to restore Clerical powers to a world long abandoned by the gods. 
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The story is essentially the basis for the first book in Dragons of Autumn Twilight, so if you know that novel, it's up to finding Khisanth or Onyx, the black dragon in Xak Tsaroth in whose hoard the Disks can be found.  With a beautiful and iconic cover by Clyde Caldwell and interior art by Jeff Easley, it's a revolutionary module, love it or hate it. Plenty more to come in the DL series!
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my greatest concern about my rupu fanaticism is that i will be construed as a crysania hater. this is not true! I think she's written a bit misogynistically but like, whatever, that's fine. she's fine! it was very funny to have him suddenly not have the whole death eyes thing and be like. oh fuck women are hot actually.
my only thing in reality is like. if bupu was conventionally attractive and talked with ""proper"" grammar, bupu's appearances in test of the twins would have been part of a romantic arc.
raistlin can have other girlfriends! it's just like. only one character is buried in the depths of raistlin's psyche keeping that one spark of good sense alive, and that's this woman he knew for like three days max.
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