The rest follow suit, and Namaari assembles the gem before the Druun petrify her as well. She urges the others to unite and reassemble the gem, showing her faith in Namaari by handing over her piece and allowing the Druun to petrify her. As the Druun gain on her group, Raya remembers how trust allowed Sisu to save the world before. Namaari follows Raya with Fang’s gem piece and saves Raya's pet Tuk Tuk from the Druun, earning Raya's forgiveness. Raya beats Namaari and prepares to kill her, but stops upon realizing her own role in Sisu's death due to her inability to trust others she heads off to aid her friends instead. The two fight while Raya's companions evacuate the people of Fang using the gem pieces. Raya pursues Namaari, whom she finds grieving the petrification of her mother. Sisu's death causes water to disappear from Fang's protective canal, allowing the Druun to overrun the realm. Sisu attempts to calm Namaari, but Raya attacks with her sword the scuffle causes Namaari's crossbow to fire, killing Sisu. Namaari, torn by her responsibility to save Fang's reputation and her wish to help defeat the Druun, threatens them with a crossbow. Raya returns the dragon pendant she received from Namaari years ago as a gesture of trust. Not fully trusting their new companions, Raya insists Sisu remain disguised as a human but Sisu reveals herself in order to save Raya from Namaari at Spine.Īt Fang, Sisu convinces Raya to try to ally with Namaari rather than stealing the final piece. Namaari pursues her, hoping to gain the gem shards for the Fang tribe. Raya and Sisu travel through Tail, Talon, and Spine, reclaiming gem pieces and meeting new friends along the way: the young restaurateur Boun, the con artist baby Little Noi, and the warrior Tong, all of whom have lost loved ones to the Druun. Raya resolves to take back the four stolen pieces of the gem, in order to reassemble it and use it against the Druun. She manages to summon Sisu at a shipwreck in Tail, but Sisu admits that she did not create the gem: she wielded it on behalf of her four siblings, who each contributed their magic to the gem. Observing that the Druun avoid water, Benja saves Raya by throwing her into the river she watches him get engulfed and petrified by the Druun.įor the next six years, Raya treks across Kumandra searching for Sisu, to get her to create another gem and banish the Druun once more. As each tribe steals a piece of the gem, the Druun reawaken and overtake Heart and its people before spreading throughout the rest of Kumandra. Alerted to the attack, Benja and the other tribes arrive at the scene and start fighting over the gem, which gets broken in the scuffle. Trusting her, Raya shows Namaari the location of the gem, but she betrays Raya as part of a plot to help Fang steal it. During the feast, Raya befriends Namaari, the daughter of Chief Virana of the Fang tribe, who gives Raya a dragon pendant as a gift and tells her of a legend that the dragon Sisu still exists and can be summoned. Firmly believing that the tribes can be united once again, Benja holds a feast for the leadership of all five tribes. Heart ends up holding the gem.įive hundred years later, Chief Benja of the Heart tribe trains his daughter Raya to protect the gem. A power struggle for the gem divides Kumandra's people into five tribes, based on their placement along a dragon-shaped river: Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon, and Tail. Sisu, the last dragon, concentrates her magic into a gem and banishes the Druun, reviving Kumandra's people but not the dragons. The prosperous land of Kumandra is ravaged by the Druun, threatening evil spirits that turn people and dragons to stone.