The Blue Lady’s War | DragonLance Saga 

She was the warlord who claimed the miceram, with plans for global domination. Unfortunately for her, her passions, companion, and family seemed to be working at odds to her ultimate ruin. Buy the Legends of the Twins sourcebook: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/produ...
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Transcript
It was a confluence of machinations that caused and ended the Blue Lady’s War.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about The Blue Lady’s War. I would like to take a moment and thank the DLSaga members, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate links. I am referencing the Annotated Legends and the Legends of the Twins sourcebook for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below!
Discussion
Kitiara Uth Matar was the most powerful Dragon Highlord in her time. She commanded total devotion from her soldiers as she took care to treat them better and pay them on time, in contrast to her peers. Kitiara had total respect and cooperation from her dragon mount, Khellendros, known as Skie, and she alone captured the attention of the Death Knight Lord Soth, and for a time, bent him to her will. With his aid she claimed the Crown of Power, the Miceram, from Tanis Half-Elven at the end of the War of the Lance, and used it to unify the disparate and broken forces of the Dark Queen in three hundred and fifty three Alt Cataclius. At the end of the War of the Lance, she alone held the Dragon Queen's favor, though it was from banishment in the Abyss, thanks to her half-brothers and the Heroes of the Lance.
With a Flying Citadel, a reunited army, a Death Knight and his minions, and her Blue Dragon nothing seemed to stand in her way from accomplishing what Ariakas could not-domination of Ansalon in this post war era. It would only take her five years to mount an assault on Palanthas, one of the few locations in Ansalon no one ever expected a successful attack to be made in, as it was protected by the Vingaard Mountains and the High Clerist’s Tower. What Kitiara was unable to see was that she was merely a pawn in a number of schemes, whose ambitions were even greater and in direct contrast with her own.
First, her half brother Raistlin Majere, the most powerful magi on Krynn, was planning to confront and overthrow Takhisis herself. Second, Raistlin’s hubris led him to inform Dalamar the Dark, his apprentice, who was spying on him for the Orders of High Sorcery. And third and most devastatingly, Lord Soth wanted Kitiara for his own… and not alive. Kitiara’s most trusted commander, Lord Soth, actively worked against her in her schemes, sealing her fate. When Raistlin told Kitiara about his plans, she couldn’t believe it. She was sure he would fail, and she wanted to use his magic on her behalf. Lord Soth convinced Kitiara that she could stop him by destroying Lady Crysania, Raistlin’s key to entering the Abyss. She sent Lord Soth to kill her, and if it weren't for the god Paladine’s direct interference, he would have succeeded.
Lady Crysania’s corpse was delivered to the Tower of High Sorcery in Wayreth and sent back in time to be resurrected by the Kingpriest himself. But Lord Soth was not content in defeat. As Kitiara was forging an alliance with Dalamar to stop Raistlin, and potentially use him in her coming conflict, Lord Soth was poisoning the connection, by telling Dalamar that Kitiara planned to allow Raistlin to succeed by meeting him outside the Portal to the Abyss in the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas. As Lord Soth pressed Kitiara to invade Palanthas in three hundred and fifty-six AC, in order to stop Raistlin herself, the pieces on the Khas board were in position.
The Blue Lady was able to keep the Flying Citadel secret by eliminating Lord Gunthar’s spy network in Sanction. Dumping the bodies in the courtyard of the High Clerist’s Tower. Even with Tanis Half-Elven actively working against Kitiara, and with Gunthar Uth Wistan, Kitiara outmaneuvered them both, a credit to her military skill as a leader, lest we think she was a mere pawn completely...