Sigrid:Dragon of Reverse Blood

The Ironpeak Dragon Clan judges bloodline rank by the hue of dragon eggs. Golden eggs mark the supreme royal bloodline, while solid black ones are universally condemned as impure, inferior blood. In her past life, Sigrid, the eldest princess, laid a black dragon egg. The whole clan deemed her bloodline degraded, a disgrace to the royal lineage. Meanwhile, her younger sister Ingrid hatched a golden dragon egg. After their mating oath, her consort Bjorn switched sides. He allied with Ingrid and exploited the clan’s prejudice to ostracize Sigrid. Her black egg was smashed before the entire court. She was exiled from the clan and perished in the icy abyss. Ingrid, the one who had ruined her, seized control of the clan thanks to her golden egg. At the brink of death, an ancient inheritance granted Sigrid rebirth. She returned to the Oath Ceremony, right before her egg was due to form. She knew her black egg was no tainted blood — it carried the long-lost blood of the Primordial Shadow Dragon. She also knew the clan’s obsession with egg color could never be undone before the egg hatched. So she resolved to flee the Ironpeak Dragon Court. On her journey, she rescued Rolf, a descendant of the Shadow Dragon kin. To rally the scattered Shadow Dragon forces, Sigrid tended to his wounds. Together in secret, they gathered proof that Ingrid had used forbidden alchemical arts to artificially gild her egg. Months later, Ingrid announced her golden egg was nearly ready to hatch. The clan patriarch scheduled the Ancient Furnace Flame Rite, a grand ceremony to formally name her heir. He also issued a warrant for Sigrid’s arrest. Sigrid arrived at the sacred altar with her black egg in hand. Amid the clan’s jeers and curses, she demanded a side‑by‑side bloodline trial. Beneath the trial dragonfire, the golden egg blazed brighter and brighter, while the black egg stayed dim and lifeless. Just as the crowd roared to revile Sigrid’s egg, the black egg cracked open — and out emerged a primordial Shadow Dragon. Ingrid’s gilded egg, by contrast, hatched only an ordinary young dragon. Sigrid presented the evidence of Ingrid’s alchemical tampering. Ingrid and her whelp were cast out of the clan. Bjorn tried to beg Sigrid for forgiveness, but Rolf blocked his path. Sigrid banished Bjorn back to his homeland, leaving him utterly humiliated.