so I have gotten into ds and I have to go though three portals in order to get to a tree that tells me to go all around to find a staff that really doesn't help much and I have to go into different places to find things to ride this dragon/drake then I must read books to learn more about dragons and defeat tons of things to simply ride a dragon up to Malistaire's lair and fight him in an incredibly long battle and suddenly after I've given him a thurough beating the master of all evil is suddenly reformed and reunited with his ghost hippie looking wife
The first arc is the simplest of the three yet possibly also the longest current one in terms of how long Malistaire appears within our wizard's journeys from levels 1 to 100.
You seem to have the jist of it though. Dragonspyre's storyline anyway.
so I have gotten into ds and I have to go though three portals in order to get to a tree that tells me to go all around to find a staff that really doesn't help much and I have to go into different places to find things to ride this dragon/drake then I must read books to learn more about dragons and defeat tons of things to simply ride a dragon up to Malistaire's lair and fight him in an incredibly long battle and suddenly after I've given him a thurough beating the master of all evil is suddenly reformed and reunited with his ghost hippie looking wife