The Sandlanders, a dour coastal people, valued their possessions above all else. Their dead, along with their most valued possessions, were ferried on funeral barges across the vast Korm Basin to its southernmost extremity, which entered a cavern where the lichway was sited. . . . The lichway was sporadically attacked, without success, by lizardfolk until an earth tremor opened a chasm between the Korm Basin and the Pit of the Eternal Flame. The flame was quenched by the inrushing waters and the lizardfolk were able to use this subterranean opening to penetrate the defenses of the lichway and slay the guards and the high-priest.
