Dragonlance D&D Game Blog

After my recent post about the history of Dragonlance comics , I've been itching to go back an re-read those issues. So here is the a synopsis and review of the first issue. Issue#1: Fire & Ice On his way to Solace, Sturm Brightblade comes across a female warrior in need of help fighting off a band of hobgoblins. Sturm comes to her aid and then carries her to a nearby monastery. At the door steps of the monastery (of Majere), Sturm passes out. When he awakens, Sturm prepares to leave and resume his journey to Solace, first getting his sword that a monk stored in a nearby shed (their order does not allow weapons on their living premises). After Sturm leaves, Riva finds out that the monk who had been attending them is Vandar Brightblade, Sturm's uncle who was once a knight, but abandoned the knighthood for the monastery. The action then cuts to Lord Soth, who is obviously in Dargaard Keep with a dragon highlord, revealed to be Kitiara. The two are in the middle of some plan ...

When the original Dragonlance characters were first being developed, Sturm Brightblade was first called Santos Silverblade. Later, the name was changed to something more stern, in accordance with the character's personality. Also, Tracy Hickman, one of the key architects of the Dragonlance project, originally used the name for one of the dead siblings of the vampire Count Strahd von Zarovich in his classic 1st edition module, Ravenloft .