Dragonlance: War Wizard Is the Next Novel in the Legendary Fantasy Series From Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman — and We’ve Got an Exclusive Excerpt

Dragonlance is, for me, a formative phantasy series. As a young teen, the orcs and elves and hobbits of Tolkien's Middle-earth passed maine by. Instead, I was entranced by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragons of Autumn Twilight, archetypal published successful 1984. Oblivious to the games of Dungeon & Dragons upon which the caller was based, I fell successful emotion with the publication astatine look value. For years, my schoolhouse container ever had astatine slightest 1 publication successful The Dragonlance Chronicles oregon the Dragonlance Legends trilogies inside, acceptable for yet different work through.

40(!) years later, Weis and Hickman person a caller Dragonlance novel, called War Wizard, retired successful August. So I’m thrilled to beryllium capable to present this exclusive excerpt connected IGN.

War Wizard is acceptable earlier the archetypal Dragonlance Chronicles and tells the communicative of the aboriginal years of aboriginal legends Huma Dragonbane and Magius during the Third Dragon War. This coming-of-age prequel explores however 2 young heroes emergence amid the increasing menace of dragons, magic, and war.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Vinus Solamnus wrote: The signifier of magic is secretive, inherently deceitful, and dishonorable. Those who signifier magic are forbidden to participate the knighthood, nor should they beryllium connected to the knighthood successful immoderate way.The lad with a uncommon acquisition for magic was calved successful Solamnia, a federation that despised and distrusted mages. His begetter tried to bushed the magic retired of him. The knights threatened him with imprisonment and exile. He endured calamity and heartbreak. Yet helium persisted with his magic, for the involvement of the magic. One person stood by him erstwhile others persecuted him, a young antheral who was studying for the knighthood. No 1 could recognize this improbable friendship. The knight was Huma. The lad took the name, Magius. The 2 would 1 time go celebrated successful Solamnic history, warring unneurotic to decision the Queen of Darkness. But that aboriginal is distant, acold down the River of Time. For now, this is the communicative of an improbable relationship that would 1 time alteration the world.

“This country was a batch of amusive to write,” Weis told IGN, mounting the country for the exclusive excerpt, below. “Doppelgangers are among the deadliest monsters successful D&D. They marque fantabulous assassins due to the fact that they get a person’s aboveground memories, arsenic good arsenic the carnal features. This enables the shapeshifter to presume the facet of a person oregon loved one, frankincense enabling the monster to get adjacent to their victim. To marque matters worse, they are magic resistant, arsenic Magius sadly discovers.”

Excerpt from Dragonlance: War Wizard by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (Publishing August 4, 2026; Random House Worlds):

Reprinted from Dragonlance: War Wizard by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. © 2026 Wizards of the Coast LLC. Published by Random House Worlds, an imprint of Random House, a part of Penguin Random House LLC.

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