Nations of the World,

A fair warning: a great tide is sweeping over my lands and will soon be reaching you. The mighty Lizard people have tried, with our allies, to fight the Jotun menace...and have only fed them more and more power.

All along the coasts that border the sea of Blood (88) and Palatuk Bay (110) lay our fallen warriors, their bodies horribly twisted by their ordeal with dark magic, killed in any number of ways, reanimated and then blasted with holy-fire. What's worse! Marshmaster Mike and his retinue of wizards/monsters was just killed by a gigantic-flying-giants-killer-ambush-army! If anyone has a firestorm handy, please send it to province (56), it will be well spent

Now the giants have conquered much of the C'tis Empire. Indeed the old kingdom of Shinuyama has fallen under Jotun's control. The C'tissian people cling to life in their southern lands, while their mighty Dragon-god, Apep, ravages the enemies heartlands in vain.

- Scrawled on a piece of lizard-hide