History Characters / Dragonlance

* HeroesWantRedHeads: His "type" changes alongside his journey from AntiHero to AntiVillain. In Soul Forge, he falls in love with his brother's crush du jour - the redheaded Miranda. By the time we get to the Legends trilogy, he is into EeriePaleskinnedBrunette Crysania.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Two of his three canon love interests, Miranda and Tika, were redheads.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: To Crysiana in ''Legends''.

* AdaptationalBadass: Very minor example but second and third edition remakes of the modules boost up his Constitution, since his original score would render him nearly unplayable in those editions.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Soth and his singing banshees manage to give BigBad Ariakas the creeps in their introduction.

* LawfulEvil: InUniverse; he may be a murderous, self-obsessed monster, but he still upholds a strictly military bearing and even upholds some standards of the Solamnic Knight's Oath and Measure. Admittedly, this is more as a mockery towards his human life.

* OneHitKill: His most dangerous ability is his Power Word. He can simply point at a living creature, say "die" and they will fall over dead unless they have some kind of magical protection against it.

* TheChessmaster: He's brilliant at coming up with schemes and plans, allowing him to manipulate others even though his social skills absolutely suck. [[spoiler: He manages to become the supreme god, and destroy all others... which [[FateWorseThanDeath ended]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt very badly]]]].

* DeceptiveDisciple: After having gained power and knowledge from the [[OurLichesAreDifferent ghost of the undead evil archwizard]] Fistandantilus, Raistlin became the next Master of Past and Present. [[spoiler:He then [[TimeTravel traveled into the past]] to usurp all of Fistandantilus' powers by going back to a time when the man was still mortal and posing as one of Fistandantilus' own apprentices. When Fistandantilus tried to suck out Raistlin's lifeforce and [[GrandTheftMe take over the young man's body to extend his own life]] [[BodySurf (as he used to do with his apprentices)]], Raistlin killed Fistandantilus instead and took his place in history.]]

* EvilOverlord: Technically, but nobody takes him seriously. Until his [[CharacterDevelopment spinoff]] [[NotSoHarmlessVillain novel]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: He's Kansaldi Fire-Eyes's superior in ''Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen'' and left her in charge while going south to handle his own plans.

* TookALevelInBadass: In the ''Legends'' trilogy where his training as a gladiator transformed him from a strong drunkard to a peak-human warrior.

* Determinator: She incredibly fights her way through the enchantments of the Tower of Palanthas by sheer willpower. Notably, the Tower is protected by an aura of fear so powerful that it's caused the city blocks around it to become abandoned and even Kender (a race with a natural immunity to fear) flee from it. Not even dragons dare to approach the Tower. But Kitiara manages to make it through the haunted grove protecting the Tower (with some help from Lord Soth) by sheer force of will.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He preferred not to read or keep any Fistandantilus or Raistin's books on how to become a god.

* TheArchmage: He is not as powerful as his uncle, but he was the most powerful Primal Sorcerer during the early Fifth Age, and he was one of three who helped to rediscover Primal Sorcery in the Fifth Age with very little to work from.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Original modules let him live a bit longer than the novels. Some later remakes, like 15th Anniversarry edition, let him survive even beyond that and play role in the final battle of the Chronicles.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: She was the primary opponent of Chemosh's designs on Takhisis' vacant throne in the ''Dark Disciple'' trilogy, with more story prominence than any of the good or neutral gods, and the only god to sponsor a mortal champion to actually get anything done.

** Even Lord Soth, a Death Knight who terrifies Dalamar, Raistlin's protege and successor, bows before Raistlin as a true master of the magical arts.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: His alignment was Neutral in the original modules, since the AD&D rules required thieves to usually only be neutral to evil in alignment. Tas's actual behavior in the novels is much more like a Good-aligned character. The updated 3E modules corret this by changing his alignment to NeutralGood.

* ChildByRape: His father was a human bandit who abducted his mother for several months. She claimed he had raped her in order to protect herself and her child from her xenophobic elven brethren when she was rescued, though the truth [[StockholmSyndrome was a bit murkier]].

* UnexplainedRecovery: Though it should be noted that it's done by the goddess of healing, so it's not.

* DistressedDamsel: Defied in that [[spoiler: she ends up refusing Tanis's help in rescuing her and instead breaks free on her own.]]

* EnlightenedMysticRace: The modern survivors, at least, have realised the flaws in their character that led to their degeneration.

* GodInHumanForm: Astinus, the master historian of the [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything Great Library of Palanthas]], is oft speculated both in-universe and out to be Gilean in human form. He simply appeared one day after the library was contructed with no word of his own past, has been around for hundreds of years despite seemingly being an ordinary human, and spends every hour chronicling the history of Krynn seemingly without rest.

%%* GodInHumanForm: As [[spoiler:Astinus]].