Editing X4-5-10: Desert Nomads series (section)

==X5: Temple of Death==
The party finally gets through the Great Pass, entering the land Hule. Hule is as expected a [[theocracy|theocratic dystopia]], but here Cook backed off the Islamic(ate) themes. Hule's elite is more Merkabah Judaism if some qabbalist actually succeeded in contacting the Elder Gods... with a side order of Plato. Some towns are dotted on Hule's side o' the map but have no names (Slagovich has a name, but that's for Coming Attractions in X6). Whatever town you enter first, that one officially becomes "Magden" and takes the Magden town map. Really, Dave?

X5 offers five new monsters: the proto-Last-of-Us [[dusanu]], the [[geonid|turtle-jawa geonid]], the [[WTF]] [[malfera]], the <s>X-series doppelganger</s>[[mujina]] who earns Cook (the lazy) an atomic wedgie, and the spectral hound. The Companion Set let in the last three, skipping the dusanu and the geonid.

The Master's name is revealed - Hosadus; his citadel is done up like a chariot. In a theme lifted from ''[[X3: Curse of Xanathon]]'' it's not easy to kill this guy.