I don't remember any mention of the last two in current continuity, but Sable could be in trouble. Can anyone confirm if the dragon orb featured in the Anvil of Time adventure had a red or black mist within?
It's strongly implied that each dragon orb works on a specific type of dragon, as represented by the type of "mist" within the orb itself.
The orbs as described in DL Classics Volume 3 affect any evil dragons within range regardless of color.
Just wondering if all five orbs are accounted for. I can only think of three from the novels- the one that Tas broke at the Whitestone Council, the one that was broken in the High Clerists Tower, and Raistlin's orb. Any mention of what happened to the other two? And if they are still around, could they have any effect on the Overlords?
Here is the accounting as I figure it:
1) The Orb Tass Broke
2) The Orb that was destroyed at the High Clerist's Tower
3) Raistlin's Orb. This one was cracked when Raistlin used it to communicate with Dalamar through time. Later on he hurled the Orb towards the portal in anger and the orb shattered.
4) According to DL Classics # 3 and the DL Atlas there is an orb in the ruins of Istar. The companions missed it entirely so it might still be there.
5) According to the Anvil of Time and adventure by Tracy Hickman that was published in Dungeon and republished in the Best of Tales II there is an Orb in the Anvil of Time. The Anvil of Time is a time traveling doohicky or somesuch. I haven't read through all the adventure so that's as much as I know.
Ok, I guess the words "...in Chronicles..." needed to be added.
I would still say that Orbs affect any evil dragons. Though we have never seen an orb affect dragons of multiple colors at the same time we have never been told that it can't.
As a slight change in topic, I think the orbs of dragonkind are close enough to DL's dragonorbs that they can be used until the War of the Lance sourcebook comes out.
Muttifoot, you're right. Lorac's orb was taken from the Tower of Istar.
Unless, of course, there were two located in Istar at one point.
Originally posted by Muttifoot
I was pretty sure that Lorac's orb was the one from Istar, as he says that it spoke to him while he was taking his test in the tower there and asked him to rescue it from some impending disaster...? Anyone else remember that?
Let me clarify for him:
The Orb that Raistlin took from Lorac is indeed the Orb from the Istarian Tower.
However, there is currently a Dragonorb in Istar now...in the possesions of Zebulah (or Zebedia or whatever his name is). Where the new orb came from is anyone's guess. Perhaps the Tower of Losarcum?
if one orb can control all evil dragons, why did they make 5 of them? Was there a Hit Dice limit or something? I guess I just disagree on principle.
I always though that the number was 5 because there are 5 towers of high sorcery and each tower originally got one. The Palanthas orb was later moved to the high clerist tower.
The one from the Palanthas tower was taken to the High Clerist Tower and was later destroyed.
The one from the Istar tower was taken by Lorac and was later destroyed.
One was taken to Icewall castle (the books never said which tower this orb came from or how it got there) and it was destroyed.
This leaves two orbs "in circulation." According to the records that the orders have they were destroyed when the two Towers of High Sorcery were destroyed. So when they blew up, the dragon orbs blew up with them (which, I guess, means the dragon orb in Icewall HAD to be the Wayreth orb but why it was moved [maybe stolen] is anyones guess).
So, according to the books, all five orbs have been destroyed. The only other mention of them is in The Anvil of Time. But you have to remember that this is a time adventure. So this orb could have (and was for sure...) been ANY one of the five. But all of them have since been destroyed. Now, one could probably survive if a player went into the anvil of time and took it back with him. But time does all it can to heal itself so the orb would be destoryed in some other way (or just vanish if the player tried to remove it). Anyway, that accounts for all five of them unless I have missed something.
Anyway, that accounts for all five of them unless I have missed something.
According to DragonLance Classics Vol 3 pg 51 there is a Dragon Orb in Zebulah's Laboratory, which is located underneath the blood sea. Which tower it belonged to is never stated.
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Matthew L. Martin
so I ask in what book or source materiel did it say the orb was destroyed?
A couple of sources imply this. First of all during Kitiara's attack on the Tower one of the gates malfunctioned allowing one of the blues to breathe his lighting into the center of the tower. This caused the inside of the tower to collapse. The assumption we make is that this destroyed the orb.
Here is the passage from DoWN. This is page 700 in the collector's edition:
"Lighting flashed, and Tas turned and fled, hearing the room behind him explode into flame. Rock and stone filled the chamber. The white light of the dragon orb was buried in the debris as the Tower of the High Clerist collapsed on top of it."
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Ah, I follow now. Its been a couple of years since I read it, so thank you.
Not a problem. My wife is reading Chronicles for the first time so it's a bit fresher in my mind.
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Originally posted by vader42xx
This leaves two orbs "in circulation." According to the records that the orders have they were destroyed when the two Towers of High Sorcery were destroyed.
I highly doubt the orbs were in the Towers when they were destroyed. As speculated before, and the presedence set in, Devine Hammer, the wizards were removing as many of the most powerful artifacts from the Towers as they could before they destroyed them. I'm sure the Dragonorbs were first on the list of things to go.
And we know where they are: One's in Zebulah's sanctuary in the bottom of the Blood Sea, and the other in the Anvil of Time...and while the one in the Anvil could technically be any of the orbs...personally, I'm betting Tracy meant for this to be the fifth and final orb...although I've never seen this explicitly stated by Tracy.
The two remaining dragon orbs would then be the black and the red, which I would agree should be located in sunken Istar (at least up until the War of the Lance - who knows what Zebulon did with it) and in the Anvil of Time (and that could by the very nature of the place show up anywhere else). That black dragon orb would be quite a useful weapon against Onysablet or Mohrlex...
Cheers,
Cam
What the Anvil is as far as Krynn is concerned, is a hidden machine in some sort of demiplane. The Anvil allows time travel to those who can use the machine, and it is supposed to be the place where Tas' "Device of Time Journeying" was originally constructed.
Oh, so Im not off-topic.......Dragonorbs!!
As for the actual Anvil of Time itself, it's a dungeon that essentially lives outside the "space/time continueum" of Krynn. Within the dungeon is an anvil which shares the same name...and upon which it is speculated the Device of Time Journeying was forged. As it stands now...it's a...well...it's really hard to explain without the pictures. LOL!
Anyway, from the room with the anvil (if I remember correctly) to can go to any Age of Krynn...basically it's a time machine/room.
EDIT: Oops, he beat me too it. heh heh