While on his quest, Rincewind visits the city of Djelibeybi, which is here portrayed as a combination of ancient Egyptian and modern Arab-country elements. First, he rents a camel from a salesman wearing a robe modelled on mummy bandages to travel through the deserts. Then, he meets an architect, from whom he learns about the details concerning the construction of the pyramids, various salesmen at the bazaar, and a man with a flying carpet. Afterwards, Rincewind visits a pyramid, which the narrator describes with direct quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Pyramids (A Book of Going Forth). Rincewind enters the tomb and finds there a mummy, from which he has to cut a piece of bandage for another quest. Even later, Rincewind visits an oasis, where he finds two vultures fighting for a mummified arm. As Rincewind needs to take the ring from its index finger, he needs to trick out the birds using a wooden arm covered with bandages taken from the pyramid.

Author: Filip Taterka