tygermama:

anomalousreader:

If I try to describe the Dragonlance Chronicles I know you are going to see this as a stereotypical swords and sorcery fantasy series and now it is.

The three books are

• Dragons of Autumn Twilight 
  
• Dragons of Winter Night 
  
• Dragons of Spring Dawning

The difference is this may have been the series that spawned the stereotypes, as this was the series of books that ran alongside the Dungeon and Dragon game series,

It is set in a world where there are gods of Good, Evil  and Neutral, with 3 moons – white (good), black (evil) and red (neutral) to represent the God/Goddess of each.

The story features the following main characters

• Tanis Half-Elven, a half-elf and de facto leader of the companions.
• Sturm Brightblade, a squire to the Knights of Solamnia and deeply honorable man.
• Goldmoon, daughter of the chief of the Que-Shu tribe, bearer of the Blue Crystal Staff, and first true cleric of good since the Cataclysm.
• Riverwind, bodyguard and romantic interest of Goldmoon.
• Caramon Majere, huge, muscular, sometimes slow-thinking warrior, with a deep affection for his brother.
• Raistlin Majere, a sarcastic, cynical, frail mage of the Red Robes, and the twin brother of Caramon.
• Tika Waylan, a red-haired beauty and barmaid.
• Kitiara, the Blue Dragon Highlord, half sister of Caramon and Raistlin and romantic interest of Tanis.
• Flint Fireforge, a gruff old dwarf and old friend of Tanis.
• Tasslehoff Burrfoot, a happy-go-lucky, innocent, and genial kender.
• Laurana Kanan, incredibly beautiful elven princess and romantic interest of Tanis.
• Gilthanas Kanan, elven fighter-mage prince and brother of Laurana.
• Fizban, a muddled old wizard.
• Elistan, chief priest of Paladine

Yes if you are counting you have a ranger, knight/paladin, cleric, barbarian, mage and thief. You have elves, half elves, humans, dwarves, kender as well as gods and dragons – green, red, blue, black and white (evil) as well as brass, bronze, copper, silver and, gold  (good) – gnomes and draconians.

The story is a good against evil battle, with the hero Tanis going through his own journey and reconciling both his human and elf halves.

Read this series, it is a classic if not the classic of its type and only the first in a series of books.

these were my first big fantasy read and I adore them unironically

I bought them because of the title, because I was a dragon-mad teenager (still a dragon-mad adult), and I loved them. Need to reread.