So, being lazy and writing one big entry to cover Amber & Ashes, Amber & Iron, and Amber & Blood by Margaret Weis.
Picking up not long after the end of the War of Souls, the Dark Disciple trilogy follows Mina around after the death of Takhisis, and helps us better understand the little lady who started this great big war.
We open on Mina being courted by Chemosh, Lord of Death. This doesn't work so well for Krynn, since Chemosh, annoyed by Sargonas trying to rule the Dark Pantheon, wants youthful followers, which means he imbues Mina with the ability to more or less make people of Krynn living vampires.
One of the first Beloved being Rhys's, a monk of Majere, brother, who kills off the cloister. Rhys is upset by this, and winds up becoming a monk of Zeboim, the sea witch. Who wants him to track down Mina with help from one of the new style Kender who can speak to the dead.
Eventually, we get wrapped into a plot involving the Hall of Sacrilege (a store room of relics collected by the Kingpriest of Ishtar) that's been buried under the Blood Sea since the First Cataclysm. Given it's an old Tower of Magic, Everyone is surprised to find ot Nuitari has restored it and plans on moving the Black Robes in, in exchange for giving his brother and sister towers of their own.
Mina, as an offering to Chemosh, raises the tower out of the sea. Which leads to Majere revealing to the remaining pantheon exactly who and what Mina is.
Seems ol' Mina is actually the love child of Paladine and Mishakel, who was hidden from Krynn to prevent ruining the balance. Which leads Rhys and Nightshade and Atta (the dog) to try to get Mina to Godshome.
While the books are a bit far fetched, even for the RPG genre, it's a lot of fun to see the Krynnish pantheon act like Greek deities, squabbling over everything and getting to know them a bit more closely than what we've had in the past series. It's also fun seeing how people who worship one god in particular also leave offerings for others gods just to cover bases.
Fun reading, if not quite as epic as other stories in teh series.
