Lord Spytflame of Neverdale, on his journey through Daemonland, passed beyond the desolate hills were the three generals wheeled endlessly and entered an even more desolate land that the natives call Mourna Mouruna, “Land of Death”, but which is known also as Outer Daemonland, a sea of dunes and rocks with no water but that is poisoned by foul metals and alchemic substances. It is known that in this land, Lord Spytflame came upon a mysterious vale among the dunes that was filled with the bones of elephants: “Y dyd beaholde beafore myne eyes a syghte whiche hath nevere left me: A vayle amonge ye byrninge sandes fylled wythe ye bones of manye greate creatures, armed wythe longe tuskes and wythe skulles the syze of myne height.” Spytflame’s discovery came with a hidden danger, however. For hiding among the bones was a loathsome creature, a great, rotting corpse like that of a man crossed with an elephant, dressed in ancient finery like none ever seen and armed with a bejewelled scimitar. Said Spytflame, “A greate and ponderouse beynge, vyle in forme and waye.” Those who encounter this corpse-thing say that it speaks with a voice like that of a dragon and says “Ye who wouldst defile this land and seek the airy lands beyond, I, the Elephant God, say to thee: Whosoever should defeat this land and arrive at the awful cliffs beyond before mine coming, shall have that land to explore as his prize, as is mine way. But I warn thee, outlander. Only springs and marshes of sickening alkali and withering salt shall thee find for thy water in this land, and no meat shall come thy hand, save what ye hath brought thyself. Know ye that this be the word of ye Elephant God, who hath never suffered to lie, nor to break his word.”
And so, the race across the Mourna Mouruna begins. But who will come to the cliffs at the edge of the unexplored first? The insidious Elephant God? Or the intrepid heroes?

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