Dragonlance Timeline Question

[RivenBlade]

The novella True Knight revolves around a noblewoman and cleric of Mishakal (sp?) who were alive at the time of the first Cataclysm, At the end they find a place with a tribe of nomads (the tribe's name escapes me right now), and eventually have a grandson named Riverwind.

Is this the Hero of the Lance Riverwind? Because I thought their story was two thousand years after the smackdown on Istar.

[Brightmantle]

The likely answer is-Yes, the DL timeline is known to be very out of sink and full of holes. In fact it was revised between 1e. and 2e. You should be able to Google search the broken DL timeline to get the details.

[JadedDM]

The War of the Lance actually happened 350 years after the Cataclysm, not 2000 years.

[Brightmantle]

Woah.. Wait a second- ya, it's not 2000 years later. J.DM is correct. The timeline has been altered between 1st and 2nd ed. though and a look at the revision can fill in many blanks for you if you are running it or get confused by the novels. The Novels are sometimes skewed also. One example. There's a Half orc in the Uncle trapsringers ( Forget the actual name of the book) novel but they do not exist on Krynn. An authors bungle.

[RivenBlade]

Thanx. Although those still had to be some really long-lived humans if we're talking three generations.

[JadedDM]

Months later, I went ahead and actually looked it up.

It was considerably more than three generations. This is the afterword of the book:

Michael, cleric of Mishakal, and Nikol, daughter of a knight, left the city of Palanthas, never to return. They traveled south into the plains of Abanasinia. Here they joined a tribe of the nomadic Plainsmen.

A child of a child of a child of a child of Michael and Nikol would come to be called Wanderer--a man whose ancestors, so it was said, never lost faith in the true gods.

And Wanderer would have a grandson named Riverwind.

So Wanderer, Riverwind's grandfather, was the great-great grandchild of Michael and Nikol, meaning Riverwind would be their great-great-great-great grandchild.