El regimiento de ingenieros draconianos, que ya conocimos en Enanos y draconianos, busca un lugar seguro para su preciada carga de jóvenes draconianos. Todo cuanto tienen que hacer es mantenerse con vida. Eso no debería resultar muy difícil, en principio. Sin embargo, el comandante Kang no deja de darle vueltas a un siniestro misterio. Algunos de sus draconianos han desaparecido. ¿Por qué? Kang tendrá que adoptar medidas draconianas para vencer a sus enemigos y preservar su pueblo. Es preciso que lo consiga, el destino de toda su raza depende de ello.
Margaret Edith Weis is an American fantasy and science fiction author of dozens of novels and short stories. At TSR, Inc., she teamed with Tracy Hickman to create the Dragonlance role-playing game (RPG) world. She is founding CEO and owner of Sovereign Press, Inc and Margaret Weis Productions, licensing several popular television and movie franchises to make RPG series in addition to their own. In 1999, Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons, saying she and Hickman are "basically responsible for the entire gaming fiction genre". In 2002, she was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in part for Dragonlance.