The Wizard and the Floating City

Set in a different realm on the same world as the tales of Bazil Broketail, this story recounts the adventures of a young Prince, Evander of Sedimo Kassim, who has fled his homeland to avoid an early grave.

He is cursed by a dreadful Wizard and seeks help for the toad skin that covers his upper body in the city of Monjon, which floats due to the power of the great Thymnal, an object retrieved from the higher planes by a long dead king.

Monjon, however is also under a curse from the same Wizard and when Evander foils the Wizard's plot to take the Princess Serena as his wife, the Wizard hurls a terrible at them. Unfortunately this contravenes the Law of the Thymnal which does not allow for other magic to be performed within its own sphere of influence. A cataclysm results that catapults Evander, the Princess and the flying carpet they are on to another world, the doomed world of Orthond.

In the ruins of Orthond, crushed beneath the heel of the Dominator, Waakzaam the Great, Evander and Serena meet Perspax, a member of the former Eleem nobility. With Perspax they journey across the wastelands of Orthond and eventually to the fortress of the Dominator, Himself. Fortunately, Waakzaam was away, tending to business on another of the Twelve Worlds he held in his grip. With the aid of an ancient Eleem mystic Evander and Serena escape Orthond and return to Ryetelth.

There they still have to contend with the evil Wizard of the Black Mountain, but in the end, Evander triumphs and he and Serena return to Monjon with a new, even more powerful Thymnal.