How come Verminaard is alive in Stormblade when he dies in Dragons of Autumn Twilight?
Matthew L. Martin explains: In Chronicles, Verminaard dies at Pax Tharkas. However, in the original AD&D adventures that tell the story of the War of the Lance, Verminaard survives Pax Tharkas and makes it all the way to menace the heroes in Thorbardin, and perhaps even survives that (by virtue of the ‘obscure death’ clause). Stormblade was the first novel after Chronicles to take place ‘within’ that time frame, and Nancy Varian Berberick decided to go with Verminaard surviving the escape of the refugees a la Dragons of Flame as opposed to having him killed off as happened in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The novel Dragons of the Dwarven Depths comes up with a satisfactory in-world explanation of how Verminaard is able to appear after his death in Pax Tharkas.
