History Literature / Dragonlance

* ''Dragons of Summer Flame''

* NubileSavage: Kagonesti elfs are usually dressed in this manner. Silvara wears a tribal garb adorned with tribal feathers in her hair and face paint. It's a rather {{Stripperiffic}} outfit that bares [[BareYourMidriff her midriff]] and legs.

* JerkassGods: The entire evil side of the pantheon, and especially Takhisis, who routinely starts wars in an attempt to conquer the world and tends to manipulate her family towards her own ends. The gods of good are not immune to this either though, as they are bound by the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil (which the evil gods try to subvert at every turn) and their idea of "helping" usually amounts to saying, "Do what you would normally do".

* GodzillaThreshold: In the short story ''There is Another Shore You Know, Upon the Other Side," an alternate version of Krynn where Istar never fell is ruled by the Godking, the Kingpriest having ascended and stolen the power of all the gods. The protagonists from the normal version of Krynn, witnessing how he has committed genocide against dragons, Irda, and kender (with many others in-progess), subjected the depowered gods to a FateWorseThanDeath, enslaved and conquered every nation/continent and has sealed off all of the exits to Krynn's crystal sphere, decide they have only one option that might improve things: [[spoiler:Summon Chaos by breaking the Graygem]].

%%* BrainlessBeauty: Subverted in Laurana (see under HiddenDepths).

* ''Dragonlance Legends''

** The [[AvertedTrope]] has actually bit the tabletop game in the butt quite hard as the game evolved. The books were heavily influenced by the 1st Edition rules, and there are a number of times where [[ShownTheirWork the characters describe concepts tied to the game rules]], like the above-mentioned Vancian system, or Wizards being limited to use only daggers as weapons. However, as the game went through subsequent editions, the campaign world either had to severely limit normal player options (many new Classes were disallowed or heavily nerfed) or the setting had to awkwardly retcon some of these elements into the story. For example, the setting goes out of its way to show that most magic by mortals is heavily regulated by the Towers of High Sorcery and only Wizards who pass the tests are allowed to cast anything but basic spells, later editions have almost every class possessing an option to gain magical abilities through one way or another.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Any Minotaur used to be able to challenge their emperor to a fight to the death, and if they won, they got to be emperor. It is said that this has changed after the War of Souls, though.

* GreenLanternRing: This is pretty much how the Fire Rose works, but it enacts a heavy toll on its wielder.

** Happens with Caramon and Tika. He remembers her as a little freckled brat and is stunned by what she's grown into ([[BuxomIsBetter and what has grown onto her]]) after he's been gone for five years.

* TheMagicGoesAway: This happens in ''Dragons of Summer Flame'', originally intended by the creators to be the GrandFinale of the saga. However, [[TheMagicComesBack they and other writers decided to keep the story going]], magic and all, though the magic isn't quite the same afterward.

** Also, Kitiara, though Paladine help you if you call her a lady. Not that Kitiara has a problem with being called a lady; she's been known as both the "Dark Lady" and the "Blue Lady" and never seemed to mind. It's more that the adjective "ladylike" can be applied to Kitiara about as accurately as the adjective "cuddly" can be applied to a [[EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks shark]].

* NubileSavage: Kagonesti elfs are usually dressed in this manner. Silvara wears a tribal garb adorned with tribal feathers in her hair and face paint. It's a rather {{Stripperiffic}} outfit that bares [[BareYourMidriff her midriff]] and [[ShesGotLegs legs]].

On April 2022, during the D&D Direct event, Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast announced that the Dragonlance setting will be adapted for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition'', complete with an adventure module titled ''Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen'' as well as a board game titled ''Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn''. Both of these titles are set to release on December 6, 2022.

* ''Dragonlance Chronicles''

The concept of the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil is a central theme of the setting, as the stories have shown similarly dire consequences when good and evil each spiral out of control. Another theme that's prevalent throughout the books is spiritual abandonment and discovery, as the gods have [[JerkassGods a distinct tendency to run out on the world whenever they screw things up badly enough]]. This shows up even in the first novel, ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight'', as the gods had abandoned the world some hundreds of years before after the first Cataclysm, and the protagonists must not only deal with the covert return of Takhisis, the Dark Queen of the evil gods, but also with the Seekers, who have invented false gods as a pretext to seize power.

* ''Literature/TheElvenNationsTrilogy''
* ''Literature/KingpriestTrilogy''
* ''Literature/TheLegendOfHuma''
* ''Literature/DragonlanceTheNewAdventures''

** The fates of the cast of the original trilogy: [[spoiler:Sturm is killed by Kitiara in Winter Nights, Flint dies of a heart attack in Spring Dawning, Raistlin and Kitiara both die at the end of the Legends Trilogy, Tanis is shot from behind by a mook in Summer Flame, Tasslehoff is squashed by Chaos' foot in Summer Flame (although he comes back for awhile, he eventually returns so he can die when he's supposed to), Riverwind dies in between books when the Dragon Overlords come, Laurana died during the battle against Beryl in Qualinesti, and Goldmoon died in Mina's arms in the ''War of Souls''. Gilthanas and Silvara can die according to the adventure path ''Price Of Courage'', that wasn't committed to a book. Caramon and Tika both died peacefully of old age, and Alhana Starbreeze is the only one left alive (Laurana's brother Porthios is also still alive but may or may not count as one 'of the cast' depending on your point of view.)]]

* ContinuityDrift: The Gods of Magic were originally just meant to be power batteries and in ''Dragons of Autmun Twilight'' even Raistlin was not aware of the existence of Nuitari. The Gods of Magic later gained personalities and are now full deities.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Tika in the animated movie.

%%* ProudScholarRaceGuy: The Tinker Gnomes probably see themselves as Type I, and the Irda are Type II.
%%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy:

* TransformationTrinket: In the short story "The Scavengers of Istar", Ferret Snitchwhistle follows his Kender nature and steals the Icons of Symeon from the Great Temple of Lord City, Istar. The icons are small disks made of precious metals, sport engravings of different Metallic Dragons each, and grant magical abilities. The golden disk, specifically, allows the user to shapeshift at will.