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But when the soldiers of Lord Yamada, with the first light, with fixed banners and brandished glaives, crying out, swarmed to the shore, they found the beach empty. In this I detected the work of Priest-Kings, and a wager, perhaps for the stakes of a world's surface, with Kurii. I knew little of what was occurring, but suspected there were battles behind battles. I suspected the surface of gor lay at issue. It was a speculation that Priest-Kings and Kurii, weary of skirmishes, of indecision, of stalemates, of continual intrusions and probes, had proposed, if not agreed upon, a game of men, a drawing of cards or a casting of dice, on the outcome of which depended a coveted prize, the surface of a world. I feared the outcome of this dire contest was slated to take place far from known gor, indeed, at the "World's End," between two Pani contingents. I suspected the armaments involved were to be primitive, neither technologically nor industrially advanced. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )