 In the beginning , Margaret Weis had problems depicting Tanis Half @-@ Elven in the novels . Tracy Hickman finally told her " He 's James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise . " After that explanation , Margaret had no more difficulty writing about Tanis . Other noteworthy antagonists , and sometimes protagonists , are the Death Knight Lord Soth and Kitiara Uth Matar , the half @-@ sister of Raistlin and Caramon , and leader of one of the <unk> of Ansalon . According to Hickman , Lord Soth is the most unpredictable character to write about , saying " Every time that character made an appearance in one of our books he would try to run off with the story . " 
