Irda (Dragonlance)

The Irda are a fictional species in the fantasy world of Dragonlance for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. In the fantasy collection, where the races and Gods are made up of a fantasy pantheon of the author's creation, they are the first born of all races, born of Evil gods, originally named High Ogres and are also the ancient predecessors of the contemporary or more popularized Ogres.

Overview

The Irda or High Ogres, appear in The Irda - The Lost Histories vol II, by Linda P. Baker, Dragonlance Chronicles - Dragons of Summer Flame by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis and in a somewhat contradictory plot line within Dragonlance- The Otherlands, by Haring, Bennie & Terra. From a schematic literary perspective, their presence represents a gifted and aristocratic race of humanoids which the authors have effectively created to depict the paradoxes of extreme good & evil, freedom & slavery, as well as obsession with the maintenance of greed, corruption, mysticism and hierarchy or imposed superiority. They may be borrowed in part, like many other fictional races, from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth races, being similar to his Elves in being almost immortal, gifted magically and unearthly in their physical appearance.JRR Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings Unlike Tolkien's races of good, the original Dragonlance High Ogres were created by the evil Dragonlance god Takhisis to...
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