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PostPosted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 8:42 pm


There have been some questioning among fans as to what color Raistlin's eyes were before the Test. I want to state that they are pale blue, because that is what it says in the very first book "Dragons of Autumn Twilight" in the second chapter. Tanis looks at Raistlin for the first time after the Test, and it says that his eyes used to be pale blue.
"The pale blue irises Tanis remembered glittered gold!" page 26

So... why are people commonly misinformed? It was argued that he had brown eyes in Legends, but I always assumed that it was because Fistandantilus had brown eyes; it was after Raistlin "became" him.

But there are artists (Clyde Caldwell on the cover of "The Companions") that have given him brown eyes and authors that have said he had brown eyes. (Tina Daniell in "Dark Heart". Although she did say in "The Companions" later that he had blue ones.) I know Caramon has them, and they are twins, but Raistlin and Caramon are fraternal twins, not identical.

Anyway, I would just like to clear it up, because there are a few people I have been arguing about it with, and I have read and researched thoroughly about Raistlin not to know better.
 
PostPosted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:21 pm


I believe he had Blue eyes. It says so, when Tanis was rememberin the colors of his eyes when he was young in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. They also mentioned it in The Soulfourge.  

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:34 pm


I will point out that when dealing with any of the Companions from the original Chronicles, Weis and Hickman are the ultimate authority and anything else anyone writes on them is to be taken with a grain of salt. And Raistlin in particular one should refer to Weis as the authority, she's very protective of her mage.

In The Soulforged it is stated that he had pale blue eyes, and as you pointed out, the same is refrenced in the memory of Tanis in Autum Twilight.

You are correct in assuming that he had brown eyes when he "became" Fistandantilus durring the course of Legends. But it was just a temporary thing.
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