Join me as I review Theros Ironfeld by Don Perrin, live! Share your thoughts on this fourth volume of seven in the Dragonlance Warriors series, released by TSR, INC. on March 1, 1996. You can buy a copy here: https://amzn.to/4jpbeKf
About Theros Ironfeld
A young boy stood on the dock of his fishing village and watched the minotaur war barge approach. It would change his life from a lad who would have grown to follow in the footsteps of his father, to the greatest weaponsmith in the history of Krynn.
As a boy, Theros Ironfeld was captured and pressed to service under the minotaurs. As a man, he first fought draconians to a standstill in Solace, and later, by mysterious means, acquired a silver arm. And when the evil dragons came to conquer, he was the only man who could forge the fabled dragonlances necessary to defeat them.
The Warriors series details the exploits of the heroes and villains of the War of the Lance.
Notes:
- Theros Ironfeld is one of those minor characters, about whom upon first introduction, with his bald head, bulging muscles, silver arm, and code of honor, the reader immediately wants to know more.
- Don Perrin crafts a fascinating back story that is part historical fiction with his description of medieval battle forging, part morality play with Theros’s journey into discovering true honor, and part fantasy story with just the right touch of magic and minotaurs.
- The book Theros Ironfeld dealt with the protagonist as a boy volunteering to join the minotaurs. It depicted a lonely boy whose mother died and was unloved by his father, yearning to find a place for himself in the world.
- There was a lot of promise in the beginning for the boy who won personal recognition from the god of the minotaur Sargas for his sense of honor. From the minotaurs, Theros learned the skills of a weapons and arms maker, equipping him for his destiny.
- Freed from slavery by the minotaurs for his personal honor and loyalty, Theros went knocking around Ansalon, from Sanction all the way to Solace over many many years.
- Theros turned his back on the road less travelled and seemed bent on shutting himself personally from the world, concerning himself with nothing else but setting up a forge and dooming himself to a mundane life.
- Theros’ personal contacts with the minotaurs, Solamnic Knights and Baron Dargon Moorgoth
- Sargas behaved in a rather uncharacteristic manner
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