title: The Gates of Thorbardin (Dragonlance: Heroes Volume Five)
author:  Dan Parkinson 
description: <div>The late <b>Dan Parkinson </b>authored 38 novels, including best-sellers in four categories of fiction. He wrote poetry, historical novels, westerns, sailing-ship adventures, fantasy, science fiction and several Dragonlance novels, of which <i>The Gates of Thorbardin</i>, originally published in 1990, was his first.<br></div>
zlib_text:                  DragonLance Heroes II Trilogy 
                            Volume II 
   
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                      The Gates of Thorbardin 
                             written by 
                           Dan Parkinson 
   
  PDF by Ashamael 
   
   Dedication 
   
   Stories grow from stories told, 
   So no tale's ever ended 
   While there's yet new among the old. 
   It's thus that lore's extended. 
   
   The Gates of Thorbardin is  dedicated to  whomever finds 
   the  gnomish  island-vessel,  or  solves the  mystery of 
   Garon Wendesthalas, or tells the  whole tale  of Caliban 
   and Kolanda, or can chronicle the entire Battle  of Way- 
   keep. 
   
                             Part 1 
                        The Dream Chaser 
   
                            Chapter 1 
   
    Even  here,  in   this  cold   crevasse  split   deep  and 
   narrow  into  living  mountain  stone...  even  here,  where 
   he  could  go  no  farther, where  his aching  body squeezed 
   so tightly between serrated wall