When Wills father is killed by a dragon, he embarks on a epic journey fuelled by vengeance that leads him to an ancestral home which he stays and at and works for the tyrannical Sterling in order to learn how to slay the beast. While he is training, he befriends Sterlings daughter Kate and Sterling becomes increasingly suspicious and threatened of Will. He orders his men to kill him but Will escapes. Now Will must evade Sterlings men whilst trying to avenge his father.

Plot:
A medieval kingdom called Urland is being terrorized by a dragon named Vermithrax Pejorative. An expedition led by a young man calling himself Valerian (Clarke) comes to the house of sorcerer Ulrich of Craggenmoor (Richardson), the only remaining wizard alive. They explain to the sorcerer that their king, Casiodorus (Peter Eyre), desperate to assuage the monster, offers it a virgin chosen in a lottery twice a year. The wizard foresaw their arrival and his own death but agrees to help.