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Sturm was different, and undeniably dangerous, for he
believed all of that posturing. It was as though someone
had made him up, had said, "We need a perfect, gentle
knight to play a role in the story. How about this one?" As
a result, some criticism of the CHRONICLES has arisen in
cynical circles (primarily, those of the elves) - the
suspicion that Sturm is, indeed, a fictional character, added
to the CHRONICLES so that the humans might be
represented even more overwhelmingly than they are now.
A fictional character? Only in the widest sense, for
Sturm was among the Companions and met his death, as
the story says, in the Siege at the High Clerist's Tower.
27. CHRONICLES, III, p.5.
Fictional he might have been, but only in the sense that
he lived by fictions - by the notions of honor and duty and
compassion that have since passed from the world of
Krynn. For as you see, he was none too bright.
Yet Armavir remembered him fondly, for it was Sturm
who insisted that the poet's role in the CHRONICLES
should be championed, that the truth will out as to
Armavir's discovery of the Orb at the Tower, as to the
gnome's teaching the Solamnic Knights to use the
dragonlances in that dismal and beleaguered fortress -
truths that died with this silly, honorable man on the
fortress wall
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