War of the Lance

Background

The turning point of the conflict involved the legendary Dragonlances, powerful weapons forged from dragonmetal—a special alloy—that could pierce the scales of even the most powerful wyrms, though they were not the only means of slaying dragons; other magic items and high-level heroes could also achieve this. The war culminated not in a single siege, but with the decisive defeat of the Dragonarmies at the Battle of Neraka, which ended the conflict. Takhisis was not banished during this war; her banishment occurred later, after the Chaos War in 383 AC. The gods began returning in 351 AC, during the war's final year, but this was a late-war event, not a mid-war phenomenon—their return helped restore divine magic and lift the Dragonarmy's restrictions on arcane magic, though magic had always been accessible to those who studied it.

Did You Know?

• During this war, the gods of Krynn were largely absent or silent, leaving mortals to fight without divine intervention for most of the conflict.
• The war concluded with the defeat of the Dragonarmies at the Battle of Neraka, not with Takhisis's banishment; she was banished from Krynn after the Chaos War in 383 AC.