The Pregnant Exiles Vow

Males of the Golden Dragon clan are capable of bearing heirs. On his wedding night, Prince Cael was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by his younger brother, Drake; his wife, Elara, was killed, and Cael himself was impregnated via dark magic before being exiled to the North. The Prime Minister, Voss—a dark sorcerer who had lived for three centuries—was the mastermind behind it all; he intended to use Cael’s body to gestate a vessel for the reincarnated True Dragon Monarch, planning to devour the vessel’s fully awakened power to achieve immortality, which is why he had strictly ordered Drake to keep Cael alive.

Five years later, Cael marched south to exact revenge, leading a coalition of exiles, the Iron Folk, and loyalist royal forces alongside his son, Kai, whose powers awakened progressively throughout the campaign. Although Voss’s physical body was destroyed in the capital, his soul core remained hidden within a phylactery; ultimately, Kai fully awakened as the True Dragon and destroyed the phylactery. Having witnessed the suffering of the common people under the monarchy, Cael abolished the throne and established a council representing all races, ushering in a new era of shared governance alongside Sable and Kai.