Editing Prism Pentad

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The '''Prism Pentad''' was a series of five novels for the [[Dark Sun]] setting of [[Dungeons & Dragons]] released in the 1990s, and has gone down as one of the most reviled D&D novel series in history because of how it affected the fate of the actual campaign setting, similarly to [[Forgotten Realms]] and [[Dragonlance]] novels likewise impacting on their setting. The books, in order, are:
* The Verdant Passage
* The Crimson Legion
* The Amber Enchantress
* The Obsidian Oracle
* The Cerulean Storm.

==The Plot==
A ragtag bunch of heroes starts a revolution and kills off one of the Sorcerer-Kings. Then they go underground for years (long enough for Neeva, the female [[human]] [[fighter]] of the team to have a [[mul]] son who grows into a powerful sun [[cleric]]) and when they emerge, they get caught up in a plot that ultimately sees most of the remaining Sorcerer-Kings bumped off, the death of the Dragon of Athas, the temporary summoning and then rebanishment of [[Rajaat]], and the creation of the [[Cerulean Storm]].

==Why is it so bad?==
Wiped out most/all of the Sorcerer-Kings.

Killed the Dragon.

Brought rain back to Athas in the [[Cerulean Storm]].

Introduced a new mary sue [[Wizard]] concept in the form of "sun magic".

==The Fallout==
The effects of the Prism Pentad resulted in the release of the Revised Edition of the Dark Sun campaign setting, which was set after the final evens of The Cerulean Storm. It also resulted in a tie-in book called Beyond The Prism Pentad, which provided official stats for the characters from the novels.

On an up note, it introduced the idea of defiling being a temptation a preserver could succumb to out of weakness or desperation rather than a hard-and-fast feature of a rigid class, and therefore some neat potential for mobility between the two classes.

[[Category: Dark Sun]]