The books follow a group of heroes as they struggle to bring to fruition the Norrington Prophecy, so that they can defeat the evil Queen of the north, Chytrine, and save the southern kingdoms from destruction.

[1][2][3] A Norrington to lead them,Immortal, washed in fireVictorious, from sea to icePower of the north he will shatter,A scourge he will kill,Then Vorquellyn he will redeem.The Dragon Crown is a magical artifact of great power.

Drawing from their strength, Kirun wove spells and created a crown that allowed the wearer, if they are powerful enough, to bend Dragons to their will.

Three childhood friends Leigh Norrington, Tarrant Hawkins, and Rounce Playfair are joined by a newcomer Naysmith Carver as they are sent out into the forest to prove themselves worthy of earning their adult masks to replace their recently received moonmasks.

Norrington realizing that the arrival of the temeryx from the north means the evil Queen Chytrine of Aurolan was renewing her effort to conquer the world.

However, the main heroes believing themselves invincible with prophecy leave their armies to orchestrate a sneak attack against Chytrine in her own territory.

While some minor damage is caused trying to get the Dark Lancer to leave, his presence confirms that Will is, at least, strongly connected to the person Resolute and Crow have been looking for.

She stages a brilliant plan and saves the city only to have it be destroyed a few days later by a dragon Chytrine has gained control of with a piece of the legendary DragonCrown.

After The victory she is taken to Yslin by King Augustus in order to help him influence the Okrannel refugees in the city during the Harvest festival.

With him in tow they reach the desired city only to be press ganged into serving on a ship headed to protect the island of Vilwan where the strongest mages of the era live and train.

During the expedition into Okrannel the army manages to free the once important city of Svoid but find it is not worth protecting and burn it.

They succeed in saving one more piece thanks to Kerrigan's magic and the massive number of soldiers who gave their lives defending the Fortress.

Chytrine wins out in the end with the help of her dragon and takes hold of the Fortress and the two other pieces of the Crown left there.

Crow is arrested as it is revealed to the rest of the group that he is in fact Tarrant Hawkins, who most people believed caused the failure of the original Norrington quest.

Will wants to take a direct approach but Alyx discovers another way after a secret meeting in her dreams with the black dragon.

Upon arrival in Meredo she spars verbally with King Scrainwood and achieves her goal of getting Crow a fair trial.

In the northern lands of Aurolan, Chytrine begins to prepare her adopted daughter for a trip south as her agent.

He awakes in a cell and begins to use magic but every time he does an entity breaks his concentration until he lights a fire with just a rock and his manacles.

Kerrigan and his new tutor also travel towards the fight trying to prepare magics that will help the battle and recruit the dragons to their cause.

Alexia, Resolute, Kerrigan and Crow learn from the oracle that Will may have survived and been magically trapped on Vorquellyn because of dragon blood within him.

Alyx retreats into her mind to call for help from the Black Dragon in the ether realm chamber of her secret society.

His esscence quickly retreats back to the other realm leaving just his mechanical assistant who turns out to have a crown fragment inside of him.

Also during this time, Isaura turns against her mother, realizing she is evil like the Oromise who guide her, and helps free Saynce and then head to find the newly freed Will.

On the other side of the continent, Adrogan steadily advances into Aurolan, destroying armies and a huge ship building project.

With her death the Sullanciri weaken and Earlstroke of Orosia slays Ferrexigo allowing General Adrogan to win the day.

On the other side of the battle, Crow finally does what Lord Norrington has asked for long ago and kills Nefrai-Lesh.

Rym and Kerrigan go to Vilwan to tell the Mages that their monopoly on power is over and their alliance with a sullanciri and attempts to control the norrington bloodline were crimes that would be divulged.

However at the kings meeting it is decided not to destroy the dragoncrown and return their truestones to their waiting bodies mainly because few trust Kerrigan after him taking over Vilwan.

Later on Vorquellyn, Magic created by Kerrigan and Isuara channeled through Force eliminates Chytrine's corruption of the elf homeland.

Tarrant, in a letter to his sons with Alexia who are just born, promises that they will hear many tales of the age before their birth but hopes they never have to live through the same kind of life he had.