Epilogue


At the head of the pass, Ayshe saw below him a group of small figures. The dwarves, he realized. Callach and his band, who had turned back from their journey away from the valley. He made his way down to them. Callach greeted him with a shout.

“Brother! We feared you were dead.”

Ayshe smiled wearily. “Perhaps I am and don’t know it yet.”

“And the elf woman?”

Ayshe shook his head. “Everyone is dead, Callach. They are all dead, save me.”

“What of the Great White Wyrm?”

Above them, the vault of the sky was cloudless. The dwarf stared at it. “I cannot say, Master Callach. Perhaps later. But I can’t speak of what happened now. Give me time.”

The dwarf leader nodded and did not press the issue. “Come!” he said. “Let’s get away from this place. There’s a curse upon it.”

Ayshe nodded. Together they set out on their long, weary march.



The White Wyrm has never again been seen upon Krynn. Some say the Starfinder disappeared from her mooring at the edge of the Plains of Dust and sailed the seas with a ghostly crew of elves, seeking something they could never find. Some even say it was captained by a blind elf, who stood forever watching the seas and strove ever to sail the ship south. But these are stories that are bandied about in seaside taverns when the patrons have drunk too much, so perhaps little credence should be placed in them.

Many legends of the Great White Wyrm grew up, especially in the lands to the south. In Zeriak and among the Plainsfolk and the Ice Folk, these legends were strongest.

There men look to the icy lands to their south. They gaze on the distant mountains, and some wonder what lies beyond their peaks.

And when, in the depths of winter, they see a mist gather round the mountains far across the wastes of the Snow Sea and hear the rumble of distant thunder and the Flash of lightning, they say then that, in the depths of the world, the elf and the wyrm continue their battle, linked forever; as they will do—must do—for as long as the three moons rise and the stars turn over Krynn.