when we first meet our hero ( if you can really call him that) he had just bin sentenced to execution, however just before his life ended a new chapter in his life began. A dragon interrupted the execution and allowed him to escape certain death. However he now has to fight in a world that is in the mites of a bloody civil war between the Empire and their Imperial army and the Nightclock rebellion. Now he must decide to fight with the Imperials or the Nightclocks or to be destroyed by both armies and dragons that are trying to destroy. In this book you will follow out hero in his quest to find out what it means to be dragonborn and who he can trust in a world that is so divided, and hopefully learn more about his true roll is in this world the gods have thrown him into.