Now a young man who has kept his family alive in the wild, Temüjin is hunted down by Eeluk's brutal enforcer Tolui. In a running fight he draws the killers away from his brothers and is spared by an old loyalist who looks him dead in the eye and lies. Taken prisoner, Temüjin is forced to witness what a khan without honor will do, and his grief hardens into a vow.