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Book Description The greatest order of chivalry in the history of Krynn. After a knight has achieved the Order of the Crown, he must then begin his training in the virtues of courage and heroism in order to achieve the Order of the Sword. This is the second tale of Sir Pirvan the Wayward, whose reluctant and inauspicious beginnings bore few clues to his potential as a Knight of the Sword or as a Knight of the Crown, nor as a mentor for another similarly dubious prospect for Krynn's greatest order of chivalry. Roland J. Green is the author of the Starcruiser Shenandoah and Wandor series and numerous Conan novels, and is coauthor (with Jerr Pournelle) of the Jannisaries series. The Warriors series details the exploits of the heroes and villains of the War of the Lance. |
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In case you're wondering I pull all of my book descriptions straight off of Amazon. Normally these descriptions are the little blurbs on the back of the books but I don't know if that's the case for this one. I would like to point out that while most of what they mention above is true. This story does not take place during the War of the Lance. It takes place during the pre-Cataclysm days which actually occur a few centuries before the War of the Lance. I would like to note however that I wouldn't be surprised if that book description was actually located on the book as this novel was filled with constant inconsistencies (will be touched upon later). This novel continues the adventures of Sir Pirvan the Wayward and it occurs some time following the events of the first novel in the Warriors series. I find the titles for these books to be extremely dumb to be honest. Let's put this guy through a lackluster adventure and make him a knight at the end and let's do it again for the third book in the series except this time we'll give him a promotion at the end. Basically there's a bandit group lead by a minotaur named Waydol for some reason his actions are threatening to cause an all out war on the continent. Of course Waydol is a good person :/ and tries to prevent this with the help of Pirvan who happens to come up with an easy way out for the minotaur. Alot of stuff DOESN'T happen in this novel. Basically Pirvan journeys from point A to point B (His house->Waydol's camp). He fights Waydol over a misunderstanding. They both get hurt and respect each other. Then Pirvan rescues them by evacuating them out to sea. There are a few minor characters that die but nothing that provides an emotional impact as there is no character development in this story. There are constant inconsistencies within his story. It's as if Roland Green has a general idea of the Dragonlance universe but not a very indepth one. You have a black robe sorceress who actually turns out to be a good person. She helps out Pirvan and for some reason Roland Green made it so that the Takhisis will kill her for that. As is repeated throughout many other novels. Magic users do not fall under the jurisdiction of the main gods. The three magic gods work to help each other and magi in general tend to help each other when the time comes to it. If Takhisis could exert so much power on a black robe magic user why did she have to create the Gray magic users during the Chaos war. Another big beef I have with this novel is the way the knights are portrayed. They're just lame. They don't really show any of the characteristics that we have associated with knights. Pirvan could of been any other typical sellsword in this novel and you would barely notice a difference. Now if you read Chosen of the Gods then you would understand what I meant. Chosen of the Gods occur during the same time period and there was a group of knights fighting to the death to protect their charge. One knight gets impaled by a wyvern and is carried through the skies. Even though he's dying he still manages to kill thy wyvern. Or the scene where the knights are defending a bridge so the villagers can escape outnumbered 50 to 1 they all get killed but manage to hold off the massive hoarde for quite some time. Now compared to those guys Pirvan's just a joke In conclusion I think this novel is a decent read from a library but definately not worth a buy. Keep in mind there's alot better out there. Roland Green seems to be a mediocre author at best. There were some good ideas in his novels but the execution just falls flat.
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