morally iffy magician. The dynamic feels like it's lifted straight from Thor and Loki, and that archetypal resonance is what Weis and Hickman are obviously shooting for. And almost entirely hit." Lauren Davis of io9 commented on Raistlin: "The most memorable character from the Dragonlance series, the one whose name is almost synonymous with the books, is Raistlin Majere. Weis and Hickman have often commented that Hickman is better at writing noble characters and Weis better at writing darker ones, and Raistlin is Weis' signature." Raistlin Majere was #2 on Game Rant's 2020 "10 Must-Have NPCs In Dungeons & Dragons Lore To Make Your Campaigns Awesome" list — the article states that "Many regard Raistlin as the most powerful mage who has ever lived. Adventurers who meet Raistlin may encounter him as a full-fledged Wizard. In this form, he possesses golden skin and hourglass eyes that pierce through the veil of time– and with it, whatever vision of the past or the future that awaits the campaign." Philosopher Christopher Robichaud considered Raistlin Majere to be "the greatest D&D character ever". In the Io9 series revisiting older Dungeons & Dragons novels, Rob Bricken described Raistlin as "The breakout character of the first Dragonlance series" and that although his red robes mark him as neutral (as white robes are good, and black robes are evil), "everyone except his brother mistrusts him. Everyone else constantly assumes he's secretly planning something evil, even though he never does anything evil in Autumn Twilight. He's very caustic and solitary, which is quite understandable in my opinion." Bricken later commented that in Dragons of Spring Dawning, "Raistlin finally goes full black robes, first by teleporting himself off the maelstrom-bound ship, abandoning everyone else, including his devastated twin brother Caramon" but noted that "Weis and Hickman manage to give the new black mage shades of gray by having him join the forces of Takhisis, only to help Tanis kill the goddess' most powerful acolyte, Emperor Ariakis. Then Raistlin allows Berem to return the gem to the column to lock the divine dragon away." Bricken adds that Raistlin "makes clear he's done all of this because it's made him the most powerful force of evil on Krynn, but then he still saves Tasslehoff and Tika from death. He's evil, but he still has a soft side in there somewhere, which has caused him to be one of Dungeons &