While the main events of the war are covered in the original trilogy of books, some later released books occur during the same time period, such as War of the Lance.

The plot of the Dragonlance Chronicles is centered around the conflict known as the 'War of the Lance', in which the Heroes of the Lance march to fight against Verminaard, the lord of the draconians, and the dark goddess Takhisis. : 16 The storyline of the original Dragonlance series had been plotted and outlined before either the novel trilogy or the games were written. Jean Black, the Managing Editor of TSR's Book Department, picked Hickman and Weis to write Dragons of Autumn Twilight and the rest of the Dragonlance Chronicles series. Weis and her new partner, Tracy Hickman, worked to plot the novel they had hired an author, who didn't work out, but by that time, Weis and Hickman were so into the project that they felt they had to write it. Weis was assigned to edit Hickman's 'Project Overlord', as it was initially called, a novel intended to be coordinated with a trilogy of AD&D modules. Hickman's proposal resulted in the Dragonlance Chronicles, which led to his association with Margaret Weis. Hickman's storyline was chosen for the Dragonlance books due to the 12 part storyline. Soon after Tracy Hickman came to TSR in 1982, management announced the intention to develop his series of dragons based role-playing adventures. The Chronicles trilogy came about because the designers wanted novels to tell the story of the game world they were creating, something to which TSR, Inc. The Dragonlance Chronicles novels were based on a series of Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D) game modules. The three books in the series are Dragons of Autumn Twilight (November 1984), Dragons of Winter Night (July 1985), and Dragons of Spring Dawning (September 1985). This series is the first set of Dragonlance novels, and is followed by the Dragonlance Legends series. The Dragonlance Chronicles is a trilogy of fantasy novels written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, which take place in the Dragonlance setting.

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