The story
His brothers cut his tendons the night before he came of age.
On the Dragon Continent, blood decides everything, and those who cannot shift are Exiles who live as slaves. Kaelen was firstborn of the Red Dragon House and born unable to shift, so his three brothers took his tendons, his inheritance and his fiancee, and his father branded him a slave and threw him into the Silent Deadfire Volcano. Down there the disaster turned. His blood woke the ancient Progenitor Dragon God's inheritance, and ten years later he has whole bones and Dragon Tongue magic that can end worlds.
