Margaret Weis и др. – Dragons of Autumn Twilight

Hear the sage as his song descends like heaven's rain or tears,and washes the years, the dust of themany storiesfrom the High Tale of the Dragonlance.For in ages deep, past memory and word,in the first blush of the worldwhen the three moons rose from thelap of the forest,dragons, terrible and great,made war on this world of Krynn.Yet out of the darkness of dragons,out of our cries for lightin the blank face of the black moon soaring,a banked light flared in Solamnia,a knight of truth and of power,who called down the gods themselvesand forged the mighty Dragonlance,piercing the soulof dragonkind, driving the shade oftheir wingsfrom the brightening shores of Krynn.Thus Huma, Knight of Solamnia,Lightbringer, First Lancer,followed his light to the foot of theKhalkist Mountains,to the stone f…