Dragons of Summer Flame
core novel 1995 Dragonlance
Record
| First published | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.92 (17,939 ratings, collected 2026-09-12) |
| Page count | 552 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780786927081 |
Synopsis
Dragons of Summer Flame opens after a battle in which the young mage Palin Majere, nephew of Raistlin, is permitted by the enemy Nightlord Steel Brightblade to bring his two slain brothers home to their parents, Caramon and Tika, in Solace. Elsewhere, the Knights of Takhisis discover an island inhabited by the secretive, shapeshifting Irda, and the Irda's fearful reaction to being found sets off a catastrophic chain of events: believing an invasion inevitable, they open the Greygem of Gargath, an ancient artifact containing the destructive entity known as Chaos. Before releasing it, they send away Usha, a human orphan they had raised, believing her vulnerable to the Greygem's effects, with a message for the wizard Dalamar at the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas. The unleashing of Chaos threatens to draw characters across Krynn into a new, world-spanning conflict.
Where it sits
- Universe: Dragonlance
- Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
- Author: Margaret Weis
- Author: Tracy Hickman
Notes
- First printing 200,000 copies; NYT bestseller.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within Dragonlance (standalone work): position 47 of 182: previous The Dragons of Krynn (1994) · next Knights of the Crown (1995)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dragonlance_novels
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons_of_Summer_Flame
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