文档介绍：The Legend of Huma
Dragonlance Heroes 01
by Richard A. Knaak
Prologue
It is very rare that I, Astinus, Master Historian of Krynn, find myself penning a personal note for
inclusion in my chronicles. I have done so only once in recent memory, that being after the mage Raistlin
came within a breath of ing an all-powerful deity, mightier even than Paladine and Takhisis. He
failed, else I probably would not be writing this, but it was a failure deserving of note.
menting on that incident, I came to realize that a vicious error had been discovered in my
older volumes. By the handwriting, I suspect that one Paulus Warius, an assistant of mine some three
centuries before and notable more for his clumsiness than his ability to keep records, must have
accidentally destroyed part of some three or four older volumes and then replaced the damaged pages
with what he assumed were correct copies. They were not.
The error concerns the transitory period between what are now called the Age of Light and the Age of
Might. Ergoth, for instance, was a much older empire than is noted in the false history. Vinas Solamnus in
manded Ergoth's armies by 2692 ., not fourteen centuries later as the false history claims.
The Second Dragon War, noted incorrectly as a Second and Third war by Warius because it lasted
more than forty-five years, ended in 2645 . It was here I first learned of the grave mistakes, for I had
opened the pages concerning those last few years in order to make reference to Huma, Knight of
Solamnia, a man of very mortal flesh who faced and defeated Takhisis, goddess of evil, the
Dragonqueen. I had intended, after the end of the Second Dragon War, to note Huma's exploits but, as it
always happens, my mind was on my work.
I have spent more time with this than I had originally allotted myself. Perhaps it is because I, too, felt
some relief after that struggle, for I had been ready to close the final volume of this world's history at one