raistlin is fistandantilus raistlin majere is also known as fistandantilus the archmage who originally tried to become a god himself someone needs to justify this statement unless i remember incorrectly and this is almost years ago that i read the core books raistlin merely owned fistandatilus's staff they are not the same character in the soulforge by margaret weis and this is an uber quick summary it is revealed that raistlin r had made a deal with fistandantilus f to complete the test reneged on it but then f was able to put his soul for lack of a better term at the moment inside r's body in the dragonlance legends series weis and hickman r goes back in time to learn the rest of f's secrets and they have a magic battle while the victor is considered to be r and goes by r he actually possesses the memories abilities of both and they both had the desire to become a god by destroying takhisis so it is unclear which one actually survived the battle so with the lack of clear evidence it is a schrodinger's cat situation by which i mean that from that point in the storyline r can be seen as both r and f even though they started out as two different people oh and quick side note raistlin's staff was not f's it was the staff of magius