Crysania | DragonLance Saga

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Transcript
She is so much more than a tool for Raistlin…
Intro
Discussion
The first visual depiction of Crysania was by Clyde Caldwell for the cover of the 1987 Legends calendar. Margaret Weis comments “In every way, Crysania is Raistlin’s opposite. He is fire, she is ice. When we first see her, she is colorless, marblelike. Her hair is black, her skin is white her eyes gray.” Ultimately it is impossible to separate the story of Crysania from that of Raistlin, as it was his divine ambitions that pulled her into his schemes. But to say her part in Raistlin’s story was all there was to Crysania is to ignore her own character growth. Some may say that Crysania was able to be pulled into Raistlin’s schemes simply because she was primed from birth to play that role, but there was life after Raistlin for Crysania. A life devoted to her god, and eventually to understanding and accepting true love, in spite of the mad chaos of the events of the world, happening all around her.

Crysania Tarinius was born in three hundred and twenty-eight Alt Cataclius. The Tarinius family was of noble lineage, so Crysania was born into that wealth and spoiled by it. As a young lady she was betrothed to a young nobleman, but Crysania did not love him, and broke off the engagement. Her parents suffered an untimely death leaving Crysania as the sole heir. This could easily have defined her for the rest of her days, living in quiet luxury, but Crysania knew there was more out there for her. She knew that she had a greater purpose, and when she met Elistan, the first Cleric of Paladine, after the War of the Lance, seeking comfort for her loss, she finally realized her destiny. In fact, Crysania was one of Elistans first converts to this new, old religion. She was quickly swept up in her desire to see Paladine’s will done on Krynn, so she left her home and wealth, dedicating her life to her faith.

Crysania’s childhood would echo in her young adulthood, and to be fair she rose to Revered Daughter of Paladine remarkably quickly, but the echoes of having everything given to her as a child mixed with the excitement of her new faith in the gods of light, made her arrogant, ambitious and power hungry, infinitely more than she would ever be able to recognize in herself until years later. Her drive would push her to want to lead the church in Elistan’s absence, but fate seemed to have different plans as she was called to the Library of Palanthas and met Raistlin Majere. Crysania was fascinated and troubled by Raistlin all at once. She found him exciting and dangerous, and she was unconsciously attracted to the power he wielded. With everything else in her life coming easily, she believed she could take this dark and evil man, and bring him into the divine light of her god. What blinded her was that he too wanted to stand before the gods, just in a different capacity.

It was Crysania’s pride and ambition that blinded her to Raistlin’s true nature, and which led her to her death by Lord Soth. When Crysania went in search of the Tower of High Sorcery in Wayreth to turn Raistlin, Kitiara Uth Matar sent Lord Soth to stop her brother's schemes, leading to Lord Soth killing her, and Paladine taking her soul under his protection. It was Caramon Majere and Tasslehoff Burrfoot that ultimately presented Crysania’s body to Par-Salien and he sent her back in time to be resurrected by a true cleric in the days before the Cataclysm and allow Caramon to stop Raistlin by murdering him. Tas was an unintended traveler and arguably the only reason Raistlin was able to change time and successfully enter the Abyss...

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Thank you for watching todays Dragonlance Setting video. What do you think of Crysania? We’re you aware of her full story? Leave a message below!

[jasonpelto]

Always dug those pictures of Raistlin and Crysania

[CANDROU]

Great job! Of all the characters in the saga, my opinion might have changed the most on Crysania between my original readings when i was younger to my recent re-reading. She used to annoy me as she appeared so one-sided and naive. How could she not see through Raistlin's motives when everyone was telling her otherwise and it appeared so obvious? But life experiences have shown me this is a common occurrence, often with women who are attracted to the "bad boy" thinking they can change them and then being surprised when they can't and get hurt by them. I really enjoyed the second half of her life as she rebounded from some major disasters in her life and kept growing as a person, as you eloquently pointed out in the vid. Thanks!

[robertchapman]

Theses our some deeply true thoughts you shear at the end best of jobs

[andrewstuartjohnston]

This chick reminds me of a cross between Patty Hearst and every spoiled teen girl throwing herself at the "bad boys".

[stadtjaeger]

people will probably kill me... but i kinda let a player who was escorting her have a little forbidden affair with quick though