High Dragonlord Tyraexis summons outsiders to investigate something disturbing in the deepest lore repositories — records that contradict the Dominion's origin story, suggesting dragons were not always the rulers of this land but conquered it from something that may still be imprisoned below.

A dragon rider patrol encounters an unknown aerial threat in the Frostpeak Mountains — something that fights like a dragon but isn't one. The Council of Scales mobilises, but the investigation reveals the threat may come from within the Dominion itself.

Kobold populations in the mineral valleys are organising in ways the drakhari have never seen — forming councils, demanding representation, and refusing certain mining assignments. The social hierarchy that defines the Dominion begins to crack.

A diplomatic crisis erupts when an Alabastrian Empire expedition enters Dominion airspace without permission, claiming to pursue a Nagarin artefact. The artefact in question may be one the dragons have been guarding for millennia.

An ancient dragon in self-imposed exile returns to Drakkenhold bearing warnings of a threat she claims to have witnessed in the deep places of the world — something stirring that the God Wars were supposed to have destroyed.