(From the back of the book): Hilbert of Pusperiken, first adept of the famous lizard- and dragonresearcher Rakorium Muntagonus, wants to search the Khom desert for relicts of the goddragon Pyrdacor, who was destroyed thousands of years ago. Soon it becomes claer that he is not the only one interested in those relicts. An unknown power meddles with the research, one that seems to have bigger and more dangoerous plans. An enemy power, that threatens to destroy one of the biggest cities of the Tulamids. The heroes' last hope will be, to get the support of a real Emperor Dragon to lift the darkness. Drachenschatten is the first part of the Drachenchronik, which will have 4 parts.