How the Heroes of the Lance first met Fizban the Fabulous

"I say, did you hear me?" The old man shook a worn walking stick at the oak. "I said move and I meant it! I was sitting on that rock" - he pointed to a boulder - "enjoying the rising sun on my old bones when you had the nerve to cast a shadow over it and chill me! Move this instant, I say!"

The tree did not respond. It also did not move.

"I won't take any more of your insolence!" The old man began to beat on the tree with his stick. "Move or I'll-I'll-"

"Someone shut that looney in a cage!" Fewmaster Toede shouted, gallopping back from the front of the caravan.

"Get your hands off me!" the old man shrieked at the draconians who ran up and accosted him. He beat on them feebly with his staff until they took it away from him. "Arrest the tree!" he insisted. "Obstructing sunlight! That's the charge!"

[We make a small jump, but we're sorry to tell you that the tree wasn't arrested]

"What is your name, Old One," Tika asked.

"My name?" The old man hesitated, frowning. "Fizban? Yes that's it. Fizban."

"Fizban!" Tasslehoff repeated as the cage lurched to a stop again. "That's not a name!"

"Isn't it?" the old man asked wistfully. "That's too bad. I was rather fond of it."

[I will also bring the first words Raistlin and Fizban exchanged, but I will also remind you all that Tasslehoff and Fizban became "close personal friends".]

"I am magi!" Raistlin said, struggling to sit up.

"No kidding!" Fizban seemed immensly tickled. "Small world, Krynn. I'll have to teach you a few of my spells. I have one... a fireball.. let's see, how did that go?"

[Among other spells Raistlin learnt from Fizban was Animal Friendship. Raistlin tells Crysania this 2-300 years before he actually learnt it.]

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