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insignificant can end up playing an important role in
history in "Off Day."
Our novella, "The Silken Threads," reveals the fate of
the true clerics and tells how Nuitari, the guardian of evil
magic, attempts to thwart the ambitions of the black-robed
wizard known as Fistandantilus.
We are delighted to be visiting Krynn once again,
along with many of the original members of the
DRAGONLANCER game design team and some new
friends we met along the way. We hope you enjoy THE
REIGN OF ISTAR and that you will join us for further
journeys through Krynn in subsequent volumes in this
series.

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Six Songs For the Temple of Istar

Michael Williams

According to legend, the author of these songs is the
obscure Silvanesti bard Astralas, born about the time of the
Proclamation of Manifest Virtue. Well over a century old
when his voyage commenced, the elven prophet supposedly
set sail for Istar shortly before the Edict of Thought
Control, returning with a series of confused and confusing
visions of an impending disaster. He vanished under
mysterious circumstances around the time of the
Cataclysm; some say that he was destroyed by the elven
priestesses of Istar, acting in accordance with the edict.
Some also say that in the nightmare days of chaos that
followed the Cataclysm, Astralas traveled the forests of
Ansalon, forever reciting these songs. The fifth of the songs
- the account of the visions themselves - occurs in more
than a hundred oral versions throughout the continent. This,
however, is the only known manuscript version.
Quivalen Sath
Archivist of The Qualinesti
Poetic Records

I

Astralas, called into song
by the fluted god
Branchala of the leaves,
called when I haunted
the woods of Silvanost,
two thousand and sixty years
since the signing of scrolls,
since the sheathing of armies.