Why was Moses' wife named Zippo?
Should the 'burning bush' be any great mystery to us, knowing there are so many fissures in the ground leaking gas in that part of the world?
THE LANDS OF GREEN FLAMES
Akgku, meaning First in tongues most ancient, is the antiquarian capital of the now defunct Kingdoms of Udross. Based on the nearby ancient inscriptions this has been a center of prayer for many ages. Though nearly devoid of citizens, the Cult of Fire, whose worshippers still dwell inside the city of stone and open air, have been attending the Everlasting Flame for untold generations, and still do, to this day.
During certain years, people in Akgku claim to observe a green flame coming from the sea and erupting upward. It can be observed from a distance of two days' journey or more. After burning for a considerable time, the flame disappears.
--Falklyde Wodinger, Haraconian scholar, in route to wondrous Udross and legendary Akgku.
These are the disjointed notes from the lost journal of Falklyde Wodinger. Alas, apart from these saved pages, we have little knowledge of that strange, eastern land. What little we have, we treasure.
-Brother Mallet Obrekian, Cistern-Keeper of Thartrus Monastery
Imagine a land of dry stone, of fire spouts, gas geysers, and naptha sinkholes. This is the land of the Fire Worshippers, the Pyromancers of Akgu. Long called the aptly named " Lands of Green Fire", due to the natural phenomena of numerous "burning hillsides" dotting the landscape, the emissions caused by gasses seeping through fissures in the earth, the Lands of Green Flame lie in that great, eastern expanse of desert and rock, beyond the more modern cities of Udross, and well beyond the unforgiving pale.
All around this place, for a distance of dozens of miles, if one digs a mere two or three inches into the ground and applies a live coal, the uncovered soil instantly takes fire--almost before the coal touches the earth. This flame heats the soil but neither consumes nor marks it, and it is not terribly hot.
For unnumbered ages, gas generated by the subterranean stores of green-black oil, has escaped from the fissures in the limestone crag, and the fires caused of this gas, has lighted the prayers of generations of priests, as it blazed and flared away to the heavens.