Dragged back to the Wolves to be sacrificed, Temujin is beaten, thrown into a freezing pit, and dragged bloody behind a horse for Eeluk's pleasure—until a newly arrived swordsmith bound by an old oath to Yesugei cuts him loose into the night. Hunted across the steppe, he survives by burying himself in river mud and ice, then claims his first two followers and reunites with his brother, no longer content merely to survive. The boy born with blood in his hand has become a khan with a tribe to build and a reckoning to deliver.

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