Within Mt. Kailash is the Valley of Wind and the home of the last dragons. Periodically, they will send a “scout” out into humanity to see if the time is right to reenter the world. Sometimes the scout doesn’t return and their heartfire is extinguished within the Temple of Wind - that’s how the remaining dragons know that scout has passed beyond the veil. Other times, the heartfire still burns but the scout still is lost. There are about 450 dragons left and while they are very long-lived, their numbers are waning. The last dragons born are now in their early twenties and there are no young on the horizon (figure out why). MC wants to find out what happened to the Lost, those who never returned yet whose heartfires still burn. But the Council Elders feel that’s too big a risk, especially for one of the youngest dragons. So MC has to sneak away.
S/he finds some of the Lost but they have been diminished somehow and trapped in their human forms and no memory of being a dragon except for strange dreams they all have in common. Turns out, an evil sorcerer devised a way to capture their essence to use as his own power and extend his own life. It takes a long time to drain a dragon completely so that’s why their heartfires still burn.
With the help of some new friends s/he makes along the way, MC is able to defeat the sorcerer and free the Lost, allowing them to return to dragon form and regain their memories.
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