# Dragonlance deity question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonlance-deity-question/480336 "2009-01-08T04:45:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonlance-deity-question/480336/1 "2009-01-08T04:45:40Z")
I have never played D&D in the Dragonlance setting, but I’ve read a lot of the novels. I’ve read all the early Weis/Hickman novels up through and just after the War of the Lance, the War of Souls trilogy (which, not knowing any better, I read first), and several of the “side story” trilogies written by other authors. I’m currently reading _Amber and Blood_ by Margaret Weis, the final book of _The Dark Disciple_ trilogy, which follows immediately after the War of Souls. On the other hand, I have somehow, purely by chance, not read any of the books that take place during the Chaos War that came between the War of the Lance and the War of Souls (unless the _Linsha Trilogy_ was set during that time). I said all that to say this: While reading _The Dark Disciple_ trilogy, I was quite surprised to learn that there is a Dragonlance deity named Majere. I’m obviously familiar with Caramon & Raistlin Majere from the early novels, and Caramon’s sons, and Linsha Majere is apparently Caramon’s great niece or something like that. But the thing is, in all those books I’ve read, _no deity named Majere was ever mentioned in any capacity_ until _Amber & Ashes_, the first book of _The Dark Disciple_ - the main character is a monk dedicated to Majere. My first thought was that Raistlin or Caramon had somehow ascended to godhood and I just hadn’t read the book in which it happened. But later in The Dark Disciple it’s mentioned that Majere is one of the original gods who was around when Krynn was created. So … has Majere been there all along in the novels and/or campaign setting, and he was the one god that Weis & Hickman somehow didn’t manage to make mention of in any of the earlier books? Has it been explained somewhere why Caramon & Raistlin’s family name is the same as a god? Or did Margaret Weis just pull the god Majere out of a hat for the purpose of her latests novels? ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonlance-deity-question/480336/2 "2009-01-08T14:54:34Z")
I’m not up on the novels (_really_ not up on 'em), but Majere had been a deity in the RPG from way back. One of the neutral gods, for monkish types, IIRC. No idea why their family name is the same as the god. Probably handwaved in some obscure novel or other, though. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dragonlance-deity-question/480336/3 "2009-01-08T16:12:54Z")
Yeah, Majere is a minor God compared to the bigger gods of neutrality (Gilean, Reorx, and Lunitari,) but he’s there, and Caramon’s and Raistlin’s family’s name is taken from the God. And technically Raistlin _did_ become a God, but it was in an alternate future that never happened.