Beldinas I

“Paladine! Paladine, you see the evil that surrounds me! You have been witness to the calamities that have been the scourge of Krynn these past days. You know that this evil is directed against me, personally, because I am the only one fighting it! Surely you must see now that this doctrine of balance will not work! I understand, of course. You had to practice this doctrine in the old days, when you were weak. But you have me now, your right arm, your true representative upon Krynn. With our combined might, I can sweep evil from this world! Destroy the ogre and minotaur races! Bring the wayward humans into line! Annihilate the mages and evil clerics! Find new homelands far away for the dwarves, kender and gnomes, those races not of your own creation. And I will rule in glory, creating an age to rival even the fabled Age of Dreams! You gave this and more to Huma, Paladine, who was nothing but a renegade knight of low birth! I demand that you give me, too, the power to drive away the shadows of evil that darken this land and welcome me among the ranks of the gods!”