After the Dragon Valley slaughter, Raine, heir of the dragon kings, is exposed. Regent Quinn stages a martial tournament to lure the surviving dragonkin. Raine, hidden as a blacksmith for twenty years, enters to save lives and take revenge, killing Buck and defeating Wayne. His master, Old John, is captured shielding him. Quinn mistakes John for the royal dragonkin and plans a public execution to force out the true heir. Princess Elvina uncovers his plot to drain the Pure White Blood and become a dragon; she visits the smithy at night to seek an alliance with the real dragonkin.