The Gargoyle King ~Spoilers~

[DaemonAngel]

Just letting everyone know that The Gargoyle King by Richard A. Knaak is out today.

[Sallis the Silver Blaze]

Where are my spoilers!?

[DaemonAngel]

Patience, I just got it.
That's there as a precaution.

[Sallis the Silver Blaze]

Patience, I just got it.
That's there as a precaution.

A likely story. I have to wait until payday to get the book.

[DaemonAngel]

A likely story.

And I'm sticking too it.

[talinthas]

just picked it up. Only one more book before DL is dead.

[Sallis the Silver Blaze]

just picked it up. Only one more book before DL is dead.

This is probably going to be my last DL book (picked it up today with some birthday money from my grandmother), so it had better be good. I may pick up the Heir of Kayolin and whatever the last book in that series is though.

I almost feel nauseated reading this book though, like waiting in line for a flu shot.

[Chronamut]

Well guys I finished reading it. I must say, I was sorely disappointed - as pretty much EVERYONE that was introduced got screwed - and i do mean EVERYONE. Let's recap:

  Spoiler: MASSIVE SPOILERS BEWARE! 

-Xiryn is the Gargoyle king - he is also one of the original high ogres - he is centuries old - he dies in an interesting way.. well he doesnt really DIE - he gets burned up and absorbed into the fire rose, becoming a part of it - where his screams will be trapped within it for all eternity.

-Those undead things that were in high castle - other high ogres from the same time that gave up most of their life energies to prolongue his life - they are rewarded with a brief restoration of their former selves before they are all changed into golden statues.

-All the gargoyles are destroyed in various unpleasant ways and the rest are eventually turned into vapour and scattered to the four corners of the world

-Idaria dies in a rather unceremonious suicide fall of her own doing. She stays dead.

-Tyranos is what many of you thought - a minotaur shunned by his own people for using magic - and so using a magical device he takes on the appearance of a human. He is denied the change by the fire rose and leaves in a huff, altho kiri-joliath tells him that there may be a way for him to change but he has to prove himself.

-Safrag is blown apart by a magical dagger combined with the fragment of the fire rose.. he wasnt really real anymore at that time anyways.

-The fire rose proves to be what some thought - a wonderful illusion of power - each time it is used it makes what it transforms less and less real, before safrag died it was shown that his body wasn't even real anymore - there was no blood - it was just one solid grey mass inside. The original High ogres, after receiving it, were consumed with greed and all wanted to use it - it started to possess them, and so a few stole it from Xiryn, who had become fanatical at this time - promising immortality and godhood to those that wished it - and sealed it away - but not before chipping a piece off that Xiryn then used in future centuries to lure magic users with.

-Morgada was tricked when Safrag gave her a fake firerose - she then tried to turn on them all and the firerose turned her into stone and then burned her away into ashes.

-After several different weird transformations, the rest of the Titans died when the ancient high ogre ghouls STEPPED INTO them and used their bodies to rejuvenate their forms before ultimately dying as well.

-The populace of the ogre race remains as diminished and stupid as ever - gaining nothing from this whole ordeal. However massive amounts of them WERE slaughtered when they tried to rally against the palace asking when Safrag would change them by the palace guard - 2 carts were needed to carry away their bloody gory remains.

Sarth the ogre shaman is actually shown to be the son of 2 of the high ogre mummies (the 8 at the table) - he is proven to be the ninth. His mother sucked the live out of most of the high ogres at the table and transferred it to him so that he would be able to live through the centuries. The beautiful high ogre seen in the flashback when Tyranos is in the tomb is his mother. The one with the shocked angry expression on its face is his father. He dies a horrible wimpy death without even trying to defend himself at the hands of Xiryn.

- The elves are saved - yaaaay.

- All the titans in the hidden valley are destroyed in different ways. One is decapitated, the other .. dies some other way and the third is literally pummeled to death by the freed elves in their anger.

-Sir Stefan is saved at the last moment of his death by his patron god Kiri, and majorly helps out all throughout hte book - he eventually takes the fire rose to another plane of existance and guards it for all eternity- Kiri Joliath bows to this act on his part.

- Chasm nearly gets killed by a tree but is saved, and stalks off with his master at the end of the book.

- The entire city is totally reworked, several times, at the while of Safrag, all beautiful and perfect and eventually obsessively, with his image literally appearing on everything.. Kiri Joliath eventually at the end restores the city back to the craphole ruins it was before the transformation

- The minotaur army suffers MASSIVE casualities at the hands of the Ogre Titans, although the gods protect them somewhat - still, sucks to be them.

- In a last ditch of suckiness - golgren erects a giant *** wall around the entire ogre realm and erects a massive canyon beside the wall so that noone can ever get into the ogre realm ever again. He lets the elves out though afterwards. A Promise is a Promise.

- In the end Goldren turns into a shattered broken leader who just sits there all day and stares at a blasted oak tree tapestry. It is revealed that him and ideria sorta loved each other - she gets her own fountain monument and is buried under it - aaand he gets nothing.

- Falstoch gets reduced to a puddle of goo after being harmed in various places

- Wargroch helps kill the meredrake-ogre thingie that is set off when Golgren teleports into the palace - he is then killed by Atolgus.

- Atolgus eventually reaches titan status - but Golgren kills him by ripping out his throat with his teeth.

- Sirrion and Kiri Joliath play a BIG role in this - and apparently oppose each other. It is shown that Sirrian is actually the most dangerous god of all - even moreso than takhisis because his Indifference, being neutral, and his mercurial nature menas he wants to see the world in a constant flux of change, and welcomes chaos. Sirrian orders Golgren to use the fire rose and worship him - but golgren refuses. Sirrian then departs.

- oh and lots of people get killed here and there from various things - like the f'hanos and stuff like that.

as you can see - sucky sucky sucky.

[J_Phoenix]

I am not sure how I feel about this book. I liked the first ones, but since this will most likely be the last Dragonlance novel I will ever buy, I am not really looking forward to it

I think it is a shame that the novels are ending just like the gaming material. The last couple of years have seen some high quality DL material that I have enjoyed immensely.

[Tinker]

just picked it up. Only one more book before DL is dead.

Oh, come on Tal.