After meeting Elish, the Rider continued on his journey south, however, unbeknownst to the boy and his family, the Rider had just come back from a secret reconnaissance mission in the Northern Lands, where an Evil Wizard had taken control over the kingdom. During his time north, the Rider had seen many strange and dangerous things, dark brooding clouds, creatures and magic you couldn't imagine. But now that he had crossed the Iron Gate at the border between the Northern Lands and the Lands of Fire, and made his way through the mountains and green hills, where he had met Elish, his next stop was the harsh desert that separated the City-by-the-Sea, the capital of the Lands of Fire, from the rest of the Lands of Eli. No matter how harsh it might be, he has to cross the desert if he hopes to meet and deliver his findings to the Great Khan...