Paul B. Thompson and Tonya C. Cook's novel, "Darkness and Light" (1989) featured Sturm Brightblade and Kitiara uth Matar, working together to reach Solamnia, as Sturm sets off to find news of his father; the pair eventually admit their attraction for each other. This travel would be used as a background for Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's short story "Kitiara's son", published in "The Second Generation" (1995), with an already dead Sturm, in which the authors reveal that Kitiara had in fact seduced Sturm during their travels together, seeking to corrupt him after Sturm had repeatedly berated her for her unscrupulous ways. Unknown to Sturm, Kitiara later bore him a son named Steel Brightblade.