New Dragonlance Trilogy Returns to Krynn With Huma and Magius

The heroes of Dragonlance have always treated Huma as a ghost: a name invoked in prayers, a standard measured against, never a person you could actually meet on the page. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman just changed that. Their new trilogy, Dragonlance Legacies, opens with "War Wizard," a 352-page hardcover from Random House Worlds due August 4, 2026. Set over a thousand years before the War of the Lance that anchors the original Chronicles, the book follows Magius and Huma in the earliest years of the friendship that eventually made them legends.

For anyone who came to Dragonlance through the original novels, Huma and Magius were never characters you met; they were figures the characters invoked in awe. Huma is the Solamnic Knight whose sacrifice against the dragon goddess Takhisis ended a previous age of darkness and gave the world its first Dragonlances. Magius, his red-robed wizard companion, is referenced throughout the original books as someone whose power and fate cast a long shadow over every wizard who followed. "War Wizard" tells the story before those names carried weight: Magius as a young man facing discrimination for his arcane gifts, Huma as a recruit who doesn't yet know what he will become, both of them up against a Takhisis who is very much still winning.

That structure makes the book an unusually clean entry point for lapsed fans and newcomers. There is no roster of established companions to track and no continuity debt from prior trilogies. What helps to know before opening it: Solamnic Knights are Krynn's chivalric order, bound by a code of honor that often chafes against practical reality; the three orders of wizardry align to the three moons and the three robe colors; and Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness, is the setting's primary divine antagonist. "War Wizard" builds everything else.

Weis and Hickman first announced the project at GenCon 2024 in Indianapolis. Hickman confirmed it on social media: "Just announced at Gencon: Margaret Weis and I will be writing a new trilogy: Dragonlance Legacies. First book: War Wizard." Weis followed on Facebook, calling it "the story of the legendary wizard, Magius, and his friendship and adventures with the Solamnic knight, Huma. Published by Random House Worlds." The cover was revealed in late March, and pre-orders are now live through book stores and local game stores.

The announcement matters beyond the novel shelf. The last dedicated Krynn product for D&D fifth edition was "Shadow of the Dragon Queen" in 2022, and no tabletop follow-up has materialized since. The historical pattern is worth watching: the original Chronicles in 1984 seeded an entire wave of sourcebooks and modules, and subsequent novel revivals have consistently preceded tabletop investment in the setting. Nothing from Wizards of the Coast has been confirmed for Krynn, but a successful Legacies trilogy sharpens the business case considerably.

For anyone who wants to do the homework before August: "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" (1984) remains the essential first read and holds up as epic fantasy regardless of its age. The Dragonlance: Destinies trilogy (2021-2024) picks up with the original Heroes of the Lance and threads them backward into the same pre-War era that "War Wizard" now opens at the beginning. Neither is required reading for August 4. But "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" tells you who Huma is to the people who remember him; "War Wizard" will finally show you why.