Elves and dwarves, who had gone into hiding during the Renaissance, also suffered from what the humans had wrought with their science. Humans unleashed a nuclear war that killed millions, leaving the survivors struggling in the Age of Dust. 9 Earth īefore the main timeline of the series, life on Earth was nearly wiped out. And all was accomplished through the Seventh Gate. The Sixth Gate is the center, permitting entry: the Vortex. The Labyrinth is connected to the other worlds through the Fifth Gate: the Nexus. A house of correction was built for our enemies: the Labyrinth. Four Gates connect each world to the other: Arianus to Pryan to Abarrach to Chelestra. Worlds for ourselves and the mensch: Air, Fire, Stone, Water. Four worlds were created out of the ruin. Worlds in the series The Earth was destroyed. Finally, most of the novels also contain a musical score at the end, documenting a song (or sometimes a Sartan music-based rune-construct) featured in that particular volume. Each novel contains appendices giving further detail on various aspects of the story and its world, often summarizing (or occasionally laying the groundwork for) information related in the narrative proper. Even more than that, it is a scholarly document, with footnotes containing definitions of terms, references to past adventures and authorial asides. Tolkien claimed was a translation of a real tome in his keeping (the Red Book of Westmarch), The Death Gate Cycle claims to be documentation of the events revolving around Death's Gate, authored after the fact by its primary characters. Similar to the central concept of The Lord of the Rings, which J. Finally, as in both Dragonlance and the Darksword series, they explored the effects of sweeping changes to the fundamental nature of a world (in this case worlds) on both the day-to-day life and the fate of nations. Along a similar line, the authors continued to explore the theme of men becoming gods-in this case with the entire Patryn and Sartan races clamoring for that throne. Unlike in Dragonlance, where the universe's balance was a greater force than even the gods, the existence of a god or gods in The Death Gate Cycle is unknown a universal balance is the closest thing to divinity. Īs in their previous works, the authors continued to explore the theme of balance, and how the universe naturally works to correct imbalances. The series also displayed Weis and Hickman's continued command of the fantasy genre. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman had finished their Dragonlance and Darksword series prior to The Death Gate Cycle, which may be considered their most ambitious work yet, as they created multiple fully realized and distinct worlds. Tracy Hickman, The Annotated Dragonlance Legends pg. We have even written fantasies taking place in the far future (The Death Gate Cycle)!" Time travel itself was a science-fiction notion we applied to fantasy. Krynn is a world wholly distinct from Earth, unlike Tolkien's Middle-earth. Weis and Hickman created five distinct fantasy worlds during the course of the series, along with developing the cultures of five major races: the unique Patryn and Sartan, and the common fantasy races of dwarves, elves, and humans.īehind the series "Margaret and I have always tried to take fantasy literature in new directions. The books follow the fiercely independent Haplo, a Patryn agent sent to scout the elemental worlds and throw them into chaos in preparation for his Lord's conquest of them. He learned how to access the other worlds, using the eponymous portal called the Death Gate, and dreamed of freeing all his people from the Labyrinth and conquering the other worlds. Centuries later, a Patryn known as Xar escaped the Labyrinth, and started returning to the Labyrinth to rescue others. The Sartan took up stewardship of the elemental realms, but soon mysteriously lost contact with each other and disappeared. Centuries prior to the events of the series, the Sartan attempted to end the conflict by sundering the Earth into four elemental realms, and imprisoning the Patryns in a fifth prison world, the Labyrinth. The main conflict is between two powerful races, the Sartan and the Patryns, which branched off from humans following a nuclear/anti-matter holocaust. This wiki attempts to collect the knowledge of the playerbase into one easy-to-read, easy-to-find place that anybody can add their knowledge to.The Death Gate Cycle is a seven-part series ( heptalogy) of fantasy novels written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. This is the community-created knowledgebase for the hard SF game Children of a Dead Earth, developed by Qswitched Studios. Welcome to the Children of a Dead Earth Wiki 1 Welcome to the Children of a Dead Earth Wiki.
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