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hope_rekindledWhen Spyro was still just an egg, the temple where he was to hatch was attacked by the forces of Malefor, known as the Dark Master. To save it an elder dragon, Ignitus, set his egg afloat in the Silver River. It was eventually found in a swamp by a family of dragonflies as it was hatching. This family raised him as one of their own and he grew up safely along with his best friend/brother Sparx the Dragonfly, believing that he was one of them despite his size difference and inability to fly.
One day while he and Sparx were playing in the swamp, they ventured farther than they were allowed and Sparx was captured by a group of Apes who then attacked Spyro. Sparx continued to egg on and insult the group's leader and was nearly killed, but Spyro got angry and breathed his first flame. This made the leader flee, and Spyro defeated the rest of the group and freed Sparx.
After hearing about this, their parents decided that it was time they told Spyro the truth...that he was not a dragonfly and had come from a distant land torn by war. Shortly after this, Spyro decided to set out and find his home and, later joined by Sparx who had decided that best friends belonged together, left the swamp that had been his home.
Almost immediately after leaving they were scared by something flying overhead and bolted for a nearby cave. There he met an elderly dragon called Ignitus who recognized him. Having finally met another creature like himself, Spyro launched into a million questions...most importantly inquiring about what he was. Ignitus told him about who he was, where he’d come from, as well as about what had gone in the Realms over the years...and of the black dragon, Cynder.
Spyro asked to see the temple he came from, but Ignitus was reluctant to take him there because he didn't know what state it was in. At Spyro’s urging however, he agreed to take him to the dragon temple where they ran off the squatters there. Spyro was horrified to see the lands around the temple, having not expected it to look so terrible. But Ignitus convinced him that together they could restore the land and give hope back to everyone. Spyro wasn't really sure what he could do, but agreed to try.
Ignitus taught him some about using his fire, as well as how true dragons fight. He also taught him how to fly, before sending him and Sparx off to Dante’s Freezer to look for Volteer, another elder dragon. He told him to just look around, but to run if he saw Cynder because he wasn't ready to face her yet.
While traveling the frozen fortress, after a painful crash-landing, Spyro took a shot to the head from an electric canon. Immediately after that, he was able to make use of an electricity-based breath attack. They found Volteer in the deepest part of the fortress, being guarded by the Ice King. Spyro defeated the giant and rescued Volteer, but could have been stuck there for a few more hours listening to the electric dragon talk if Sparx hadn't mentioned that the three of them leave.
Upon returning to the temple, they learned that Cynder had used Volteer to power a strange crystal. Spyro could surprisingly makes sense of Volteer's speech, despite the fact that he uses a lot of large words and speaks quickly. Volteer then provided Spyro with some training for his newly awakened electricity powers. Once that was complete Ignitus sent him and Sparx to Tall Plains in search of the ice dragon, Cyril, in hopes of rescuing him before another crystal could be made.
There they met Kane, leader of a tribe of Atlawa, who wasn’t at all enthused about their presence on Atlawa lands...despite Spyro having helped him. He left them to go save his tribe and they continued to search for Cyril. Later, Kane nearly went over a waterfall and Spyro learned ice breath, which he used to freeze the water before the Atlawa leader went over the falls. Eventually they somewhat impressed Kane and he directed them to the Atlawa shrine where they could save Cyril if they could calm the shrine god. Cynder flew away just before they arrived, leaving her prisoner behind in the shrine with the god. When they succeeded in defeating it and saving Cyril, Kane made them tribe members, saying that his people wished to worship them now.
Back at the temple Cyril taught Spyro to control his ice powers before he was sent off to Munitions Forge to find and rescue Terrador. Ignitus had said something about Cynder trying to open a portal that mustn't be opened, but wouldn't tell them any more about it.
While exploring the caves within active volcano, Boyzitbig, they encountered Mole-Yair, leader of the Manweersmalls that lived underground there. In exchange for their help in freeing his people, who were being forced to mine for Cynder, he directed them to his brother, Exhumor, who could point them in Terrador’s direction.
On the way there, Spyro and Sparx came across a large bell, which Sparx taunted Spyro about being afraid of until the dragon rang it...causing it to come loose and fall on him. At this point, he acquired his Earth Shot ability and shattered the bell to free himself. Further in they heard an Ape, called the Conductor, mentioning Terrador before watching him depart on a train, and tried following him on a rail cart but he ended up behind them and they had to flee or be run down.
They found Exhumor at the labor camp and freed the rest of the Manweersmalls, then ventured into the deepest pits of the volcano where Terrador was being held. The Conductor and his locomotive, Steam, stood in their way, but they defeated him and saved the big earth dragon...but not before the crystal he was being used to power was charged.
Unfortunately, Cynder appeared and at Terrador’s order, and due to his own terror, Spyro fled with Cynder on his tail. Ignitus appeared and saved him, but was captured by Cynder. Terrador prevented Spyro from searching for Ignitus and they returned to the temple to finish his training.
Terrador then directed him to Cynder’s fortress, believing that to be the most likely place to find Ignitus, since her final preparations were to take place there. Unfortunately, non of the other three Guardians had the strength to go with him so only Sparx went. After fighting their way through the fortress they found Ignitus, but were blocked by Cynder who more-or-less tossed him aside easily before escaping with the crystal she’d used Ignitus to charge.
Spyro had noticed something familiar in Cynder’s eyes and brought this up to Ignitus, who revealed that Cynder was actually the only other surviving egg from the temple raid. Her egg had been stolen and she was corrupted by the Dark Master's evil magic to do his bidding, and release him from his prison...because only one born in the Year of the Dragon could do so. Ignitus also mentioned that if the Dark Master was freed, then an evil shadow would fall over the land.
Determined to stop her and prevent the Dark Master's return, Spyro followed her to the Convexity, a dimension that acted as an airlock between their world and the Dark Master’s prison. He confronted her, but apparently too late as she’d already used the final crystal needed to unlock the Dark Master’s prison. The ensuing fight was decided when Spyro unleashed a powerful energy on Cynder, removing the Dark Master’s influence from her body and allowing her to revert to her true form.
When the Convexity started to collapse moments later, Spyro refused to leave before grabbing the unconscious Cynder. He and Sparx escaped from the lock, crash-landing in the forest. They later woke in the temple, but Spyro had temporarily lost the use of all of his powers. Weeks passed, but Spyro’s powers remained locked and he started having strange nightmares about a mountain draped in shadow and an approaching evil.
One night, Sparx came to Spyro because he'd just seen Cynder sneaking out into the garden. Cynder was fleeing the temple, feeling that she didn’t belong after everything she'd done. When Spyro probably would have followed, he suddenly passed out and in a dream was contacted by a being called the Chronicler, who helped him reawaken his fire abilities, learn how to tap into Dragon Time, warned him of approaching danger, and showed him where to seek him out. When Spyro woke up, the temple was under attack.
He and Sparx had to take a roundabout way back into the temple, but Spyro and the Guardians managed to protect it but worried that battle wasn’t the end of it. Ignitus was unable to determine where Cynder had gone, but had a vision of Spyro at the base of a giant tree. Spyro mentioned that he'd seen this tree in his dreams and was immediately questioned about what else he had been seeing in his dreams. When Spyro finally told the others about his dreams, he learned a bit about the Chronicler and the approach of the night of Eternal Darkness in which the celestial moons would be at an eclipse. Ignitus sent him and Sparx on a quest to find the tree from his dream, in hopes that the Chronicler might help them through the dark times ahead.
While in an uninhabited, swampy forest at the end of the Silver River, Spyro and Sparx spotted some Skavengers in the area. Figuring that they must live there, Spyro decided that he was going the wrong way and made to backtrack, but fainted again and entered another dream sequence. The Chronicler helped him regain his ice powers and told him about the Well of Souls. Shortly after he woke up, he had to fight of the Skavengers and use the cannons on their ship to clear a way deeper into the swamp. They finally reached the place from Spyro’s first Chronicler dream and were attacked by a large monster. Spyro defeated it, but some of the pirates who’d been trying to catch it took them prisoner as a replacement.
On the ship they met Mole-Yair who’d been captured along with several Manweersmalls and was being forced to serve the pirates. Spyro was forced to fight in their arena against the Blundertails and won the first round, but fainted again right after. The Chronicler restored his earth power and told him to find him on the White Isle, passing off Spyro's concern that he was on a path to nowhere by statig that one didn't always choose the path that they were meant to follow. When Spyro came to, he was made to fight in another round, this time against the Ravage Rider. Afterward Mole-Yair brought him a letter of warning from another prisoner called Hunter. The Ape King had put a bounty on his head and that put the entire ship in danger.
After he won his next fight, against the Executioner...the piates' attempt to see if he had any importance and/or get rid of him, he was set up to face Cynder who had also been captured at some point. She had intended to simply put on a show for the pirates until they could think of an escape, but the ship was attacked and she was kidnapped. Spyro was able to help Mole-Yair and the other Manweersmalls escape, then went to the Captain’s cabin to look for a map that might show the White Isle, but was attacked by the pirate captain, Skabb. When Spyro outdid him, Skabb fled and Spyro followed and defeated him once and for all before continuing on. He passed out mid-flight though and fell into the sea.
The Chronicler unlocked his electric power and Spyro had a vision of Cynder being brought before the Ape King to await the Dark Master’s return on the night of eternal darkness. He awoke on the White Isle, having been saved by a friendly sea monster. Before he could meet the Chronicler, he had to pass a test facing his worst fear and was pitted against an elemental apparition of what Cynder used to be. He was able to defeat it and the Chronicler finally approached him.
He’d called Spyro to him with the intention of keeping him safe during the Night of Eternal Darkness and while the Dark Master revived, so that he could someday challenge and defeat him. He reveal that the Dark Master had been the first purple dragon and was the reason the Apes could harness the magic from the same crystals the dragon used. Upon finding out that Cynder would likely become his servant again and that Ignitus and the others might die, Spyro refused to stay put. The Chronicler guided him and Sparx to the Well of Souls, as Spyro wouldn't be deterred in his decision to go.
Spyro confronted Gaul the Ape King and had all of his powers sapped except for his control of Dragon Time. Cynder pretended to fight him and attacked Gaul's staff, but was easily knocked out. Gaul decided to finish Spyro himself, forcing the dragon to fight for his life without his powers. While they fought, the floor collapsed they fell into the deepest part of the mountain just as the eclipse began. Spyro was caught in a beam of dark energy at the same time and, possessed by Malefor's evil, became Dark Spyro. He easily wiped out Gaul, but the evil controlling him would have consumed him had Cynder not forced him back out of the beam of evil.
While trying to get Spyro to come with them, despite his request for Sparx and Cynder to leave him behind, the three of them were trapped in the collapsing mountain. Remembering the Chronicler’s words, Spyro had the other two come close and used a Time Fury to seal the three of them inside of a giant crystal to save their lives. They would remain asleep inside for the next three years.
One day while he and Sparx were playing in the swamp, they ventured farther than they were allowed and Sparx was captured by a group of Apes who then attacked Spyro. Sparx continued to egg on and insult the group's leader and was nearly killed, but Spyro got angry and breathed his first flame. This made the leader flee, and Spyro defeated the rest of the group and freed Sparx.
After hearing about this, their parents decided that it was time they told Spyro the truth...that he was not a dragonfly and had come from a distant land torn by war. Shortly after this, Spyro decided to set out and find his home and, later joined by Sparx who had decided that best friends belonged together, left the swamp that had been his home.
Almost immediately after leaving they were scared by something flying overhead and bolted for a nearby cave. There he met an elderly dragon called Ignitus who recognized him. Having finally met another creature like himself, Spyro launched into a million questions...most importantly inquiring about what he was. Ignitus told him about who he was, where he’d come from, as well as about what had gone in the Realms over the years...and of the black dragon, Cynder.
Spyro asked to see the temple he came from, but Ignitus was reluctant to take him there because he didn't know what state it was in. At Spyro’s urging however, he agreed to take him to the dragon temple where they ran off the squatters there. Spyro was horrified to see the lands around the temple, having not expected it to look so terrible. But Ignitus convinced him that together they could restore the land and give hope back to everyone. Spyro wasn't really sure what he could do, but agreed to try.
Ignitus taught him some about using his fire, as well as how true dragons fight. He also taught him how to fly, before sending him and Sparx off to Dante’s Freezer to look for Volteer, another elder dragon. He told him to just look around, but to run if he saw Cynder because he wasn't ready to face her yet.
While traveling the frozen fortress, after a painful crash-landing, Spyro took a shot to the head from an electric canon. Immediately after that, he was able to make use of an electricity-based breath attack. They found Volteer in the deepest part of the fortress, being guarded by the Ice King. Spyro defeated the giant and rescued Volteer, but could have been stuck there for a few more hours listening to the electric dragon talk if Sparx hadn't mentioned that the three of them leave.
Upon returning to the temple, they learned that Cynder had used Volteer to power a strange crystal. Spyro could surprisingly makes sense of Volteer's speech, despite the fact that he uses a lot of large words and speaks quickly. Volteer then provided Spyro with some training for his newly awakened electricity powers. Once that was complete Ignitus sent him and Sparx to Tall Plains in search of the ice dragon, Cyril, in hopes of rescuing him before another crystal could be made.
There they met Kane, leader of a tribe of Atlawa, who wasn’t at all enthused about their presence on Atlawa lands...despite Spyro having helped him. He left them to go save his tribe and they continued to search for Cyril. Later, Kane nearly went over a waterfall and Spyro learned ice breath, which he used to freeze the water before the Atlawa leader went over the falls. Eventually they somewhat impressed Kane and he directed them to the Atlawa shrine where they could save Cyril if they could calm the shrine god. Cynder flew away just before they arrived, leaving her prisoner behind in the shrine with the god. When they succeeded in defeating it and saving Cyril, Kane made them tribe members, saying that his people wished to worship them now.
Back at the temple Cyril taught Spyro to control his ice powers before he was sent off to Munitions Forge to find and rescue Terrador. Ignitus had said something about Cynder trying to open a portal that mustn't be opened, but wouldn't tell them any more about it.
While exploring the caves within active volcano, Boyzitbig, they encountered Mole-Yair, leader of the Manweersmalls that lived underground there. In exchange for their help in freeing his people, who were being forced to mine for Cynder, he directed them to his brother, Exhumor, who could point them in Terrador’s direction.
On the way there, Spyro and Sparx came across a large bell, which Sparx taunted Spyro about being afraid of until the dragon rang it...causing it to come loose and fall on him. At this point, he acquired his Earth Shot ability and shattered the bell to free himself. Further in they heard an Ape, called the Conductor, mentioning Terrador before watching him depart on a train, and tried following him on a rail cart but he ended up behind them and they had to flee or be run down.
They found Exhumor at the labor camp and freed the rest of the Manweersmalls, then ventured into the deepest pits of the volcano where Terrador was being held. The Conductor and his locomotive, Steam, stood in their way, but they defeated him and saved the big earth dragon...but not before the crystal he was being used to power was charged.
Unfortunately, Cynder appeared and at Terrador’s order, and due to his own terror, Spyro fled with Cynder on his tail. Ignitus appeared and saved him, but was captured by Cynder. Terrador prevented Spyro from searching for Ignitus and they returned to the temple to finish his training.
Terrador then directed him to Cynder’s fortress, believing that to be the most likely place to find Ignitus, since her final preparations were to take place there. Unfortunately, non of the other three Guardians had the strength to go with him so only Sparx went. After fighting their way through the fortress they found Ignitus, but were blocked by Cynder who more-or-less tossed him aside easily before escaping with the crystal she’d used Ignitus to charge.
Spyro had noticed something familiar in Cynder’s eyes and brought this up to Ignitus, who revealed that Cynder was actually the only other surviving egg from the temple raid. Her egg had been stolen and she was corrupted by the Dark Master's evil magic to do his bidding, and release him from his prison...because only one born in the Year of the Dragon could do so. Ignitus also mentioned that if the Dark Master was freed, then an evil shadow would fall over the land.
Determined to stop her and prevent the Dark Master's return, Spyro followed her to the Convexity, a dimension that acted as an airlock between their world and the Dark Master’s prison. He confronted her, but apparently too late as she’d already used the final crystal needed to unlock the Dark Master’s prison. The ensuing fight was decided when Spyro unleashed a powerful energy on Cynder, removing the Dark Master’s influence from her body and allowing her to revert to her true form.
When the Convexity started to collapse moments later, Spyro refused to leave before grabbing the unconscious Cynder. He and Sparx escaped from the lock, crash-landing in the forest. They later woke in the temple, but Spyro had temporarily lost the use of all of his powers. Weeks passed, but Spyro’s powers remained locked and he started having strange nightmares about a mountain draped in shadow and an approaching evil.
One night, Sparx came to Spyro because he'd just seen Cynder sneaking out into the garden. Cynder was fleeing the temple, feeling that she didn’t belong after everything she'd done. When Spyro probably would have followed, he suddenly passed out and in a dream was contacted by a being called the Chronicler, who helped him reawaken his fire abilities, learn how to tap into Dragon Time, warned him of approaching danger, and showed him where to seek him out. When Spyro woke up, the temple was under attack.
He and Sparx had to take a roundabout way back into the temple, but Spyro and the Guardians managed to protect it but worried that battle wasn’t the end of it. Ignitus was unable to determine where Cynder had gone, but had a vision of Spyro at the base of a giant tree. Spyro mentioned that he'd seen this tree in his dreams and was immediately questioned about what else he had been seeing in his dreams. When Spyro finally told the others about his dreams, he learned a bit about the Chronicler and the approach of the night of Eternal Darkness in which the celestial moons would be at an eclipse. Ignitus sent him and Sparx on a quest to find the tree from his dream, in hopes that the Chronicler might help them through the dark times ahead.
While in an uninhabited, swampy forest at the end of the Silver River, Spyro and Sparx spotted some Skavengers in the area. Figuring that they must live there, Spyro decided that he was going the wrong way and made to backtrack, but fainted again and entered another dream sequence. The Chronicler helped him regain his ice powers and told him about the Well of Souls. Shortly after he woke up, he had to fight of the Skavengers and use the cannons on their ship to clear a way deeper into the swamp. They finally reached the place from Spyro’s first Chronicler dream and were attacked by a large monster. Spyro defeated it, but some of the pirates who’d been trying to catch it took them prisoner as a replacement.
On the ship they met Mole-Yair who’d been captured along with several Manweersmalls and was being forced to serve the pirates. Spyro was forced to fight in their arena against the Blundertails and won the first round, but fainted again right after. The Chronicler restored his earth power and told him to find him on the White Isle, passing off Spyro's concern that he was on a path to nowhere by statig that one didn't always choose the path that they were meant to follow. When Spyro came to, he was made to fight in another round, this time against the Ravage Rider. Afterward Mole-Yair brought him a letter of warning from another prisoner called Hunter. The Ape King had put a bounty on his head and that put the entire ship in danger.
After he won his next fight, against the Executioner...the piates' attempt to see if he had any importance and/or get rid of him, he was set up to face Cynder who had also been captured at some point. She had intended to simply put on a show for the pirates until they could think of an escape, but the ship was attacked and she was kidnapped. Spyro was able to help Mole-Yair and the other Manweersmalls escape, then went to the Captain’s cabin to look for a map that might show the White Isle, but was attacked by the pirate captain, Skabb. When Spyro outdid him, Skabb fled and Spyro followed and defeated him once and for all before continuing on. He passed out mid-flight though and fell into the sea.
The Chronicler unlocked his electric power and Spyro had a vision of Cynder being brought before the Ape King to await the Dark Master’s return on the night of eternal darkness. He awoke on the White Isle, having been saved by a friendly sea monster. Before he could meet the Chronicler, he had to pass a test facing his worst fear and was pitted against an elemental apparition of what Cynder used to be. He was able to defeat it and the Chronicler finally approached him.
He’d called Spyro to him with the intention of keeping him safe during the Night of Eternal Darkness and while the Dark Master revived, so that he could someday challenge and defeat him. He reveal that the Dark Master had been the first purple dragon and was the reason the Apes could harness the magic from the same crystals the dragon used. Upon finding out that Cynder would likely become his servant again and that Ignitus and the others might die, Spyro refused to stay put. The Chronicler guided him and Sparx to the Well of Souls, as Spyro wouldn't be deterred in his decision to go.
Spyro confronted Gaul the Ape King and had all of his powers sapped except for his control of Dragon Time. Cynder pretended to fight him and attacked Gaul's staff, but was easily knocked out. Gaul decided to finish Spyro himself, forcing the dragon to fight for his life without his powers. While they fought, the floor collapsed they fell into the deepest part of the mountain just as the eclipse began. Spyro was caught in a beam of dark energy at the same time and, possessed by Malefor's evil, became Dark Spyro. He easily wiped out Gaul, but the evil controlling him would have consumed him had Cynder not forced him back out of the beam of evil.
While trying to get Spyro to come with them, despite his request for Sparx and Cynder to leave him behind, the three of them were trapped in the collapsing mountain. Remembering the Chronicler’s words, Spyro had the other two come close and used a Time Fury to seal the three of them inside of a giant crystal to save their lives. They would remain asleep inside for the next three years.
