Silver, Sebek, Grim and the prefect arrive in Lilia’s dream.
Sebek’s grandfather Baul is there.
Lilia’s fae troops are fighting back against human soldiers called Silver Owls who have invaded fae lands, are cutting down their forests and plundering their resources, driving direbeasts into villages by overrunning their habitats and causing great damage.
Lilia’s troops are delivering a letter from their princess, Maleanor, warning the Silver Owls to behave themselves in their country. They are traveling on foot because every delegation that has tried to fly to the Silver Owls’ eastern stronghold has gone missing.
Their jobs are to deliver the letter from the princess, to search for the missing delegates and to expel Silver Owls who are taking part in illegal mining. One of the missing delegates is Maleanor’s husband, Raverne, Malleus’ father who has been missing since he left for the Silver Owl stronghold.
At the stronghold Lilia is injured in a trap when trying to protect Silver.
The stronghold is empty, with the Silver Owls besieging Princess Maleanor now that Lilia is away.
They escape the stronghold and reach Maleanor’s castle, which has been surrounded by Silver Owls and people from other lands who want the fae land’s resources for themselves.
Henrick of the human side challenges Princess Maleanor to a duel with the captain of their guard, the Dawn Knight. He wants the princess’ magestone, and her unborn child, Malleus, to use as a mount.
The Dawn Knight is hesitant, but Henrick reminds him that his father saved the Dawn Knight from the streets and Maleanor’s magestone might cure his father’s illness, which would please Leah, who is Henrick’s sister and the Dawn Knight’s betrothed.
Lilia’s group arrives in Maleanor’s palace, where she names her unborn son Malleus and sends Lilia away to save the egg while she distracts the human armies.
Lilia asks what if he is to do if he loses both her and Raverne, as dragon eggs can only be hatched by their parents’ magic and true love.
Maleanor reveals that Lilia loved her as well as her husband, Raverne, making it impossible for him to not love their child.
Maleanor uses magic briars to drag Lilia and the rest of the group out of the palace, leaving Malleus in his hands, while Lilia begs her not to go.
Maleanor confronts the human armies trying to steal her home and Henrick calls her a wicked, temperamental witch, while the Dawn Knight says Maleanor has given him no choice but to fight, and they battle.
The Dawn Knight is blown into the path of Lilia’s group on accident. He recognizes both Lilia and the egg that Lilia carries and rescues them.
The Dawn Knight’s helmet breaks and it is revealed that he is identical to Silver.
The Dawn Knight sends the group away before anyone else finds them and Silver realizes that the Dawn Knight is his biological father. His emotional turmoil draws darkness to them, to which Silver succumbs, sinking into an abyss.
In a flashback Silver sees that after the Dawn Knight was killed and Leah fled Maleanor’s palace, where they had been living, leaving behind an infant Silver under the protection of diurnal faeries who put him to sleep until he was found by someone capable of loving him.
Realizing that he has found the son of the man who killed Maleanor and Raverne, Lilia is tempted to kill the infant, but doesn’t. Instead he presents him with the birthday gift of night’s blessings, which changes his hair from gold to silver, leading to Lilia naming Silver.
Silver envisions himself in the body of the Dawn Knight and fights an illusion of dream-Lilia, which distresses him to the point that he never wants to wake up again, but Lilia’s voice calls him back.
Sebek discovers Silver in the darkness and lectures him for daring to think he was hated as the son of the man who murdered the people that Lilia loved most, calling Silver’s strength the result of Lilia’s love, and Silver realizes he has been hearing Lilia’s voice telling him to not give up.
Silver decides to keep fighting to achieve his dream of becoming a knight who protects Lilia and Malleus.
They escape the darkness and go in pursuit of Lilia and Baul, getting separated while Sebek fights to protect Baul and Silver saves Lilia from being executed by the Silver Owls.
Lilia passes out and Silver carries him through the mountains with Malleus’ egg while evading the Silver Owls and fending off attacks by foreign mages.
They reunite with Sebek and reach the castle. Lilia says he will be going back to Maleanor now that the egg is safe, but the sun rises and Lilia realizes that Maleanor has been killed and he has failed to fulfill his promise to Raverne.
The senate shames Lilia for failing the princess and Lilia resigns from his position, leaving Malleus in the hands of the senate. Darkness appears and Lilia embraces it, asking to join Maleanor and Raverne on the other side.
We see Malleus refusing to hatch and the queen and Baul secretly send Lilia to look for answers.
Lilia travels the world, suffering from anti-fae prejudice. After 200 years Malleus is near death and Lilia is summoned back. He is the only one who can hear Malleus crying inside his egg, and realizes that Malleus is lonely after spending 200 years in isolation.
With Lilia there the egg because to drawn in all magic in the area and Lilia tells Malleus to take his as well, and even his life if he wants it, and Malleus finally hatches.
Silver realizes they have just witnessed the happiest moment in Lilia’s life, but when the senate praises him as a hero Lilia’s dream begins to collapse because of the paradox it presents in contrast to the reality of what actually happened: instead of being praised, he was met with accusations and abuse for saving Malleus’ life.
Malleus appears and reveals he had never been told that Lilia used his own life to save him. Malleus offers him a new dream where Maleanor and Raverne are alive, or where he is living quietly with Silver, and Silver vows to crush Malleus’ blessing, which awakens Lilia.
Lilia sends Silver and the rest of the group away while he distracts Malleus and Silver uses his unique magic, but they are intercepted by Ortho, who takes them to Idia.
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