Sprague, in his more serious moments, writes historical works. Since I don’t want to make this introduction longer than the piece itself, I will merely say that it is a touch of Robert E. Howard as by L. Sprague de Camp with a soupcon of Ferdinand Feghoot.
Of all the antedeluvian empires. perhaps the most stable and longest-lived was the Double Kingdom of Mekh-Pyget.
The two kingdoms were forcibly combined (c. 1250 BD) through the able generalship of Prince Ahlmos, eldest son of the then King of Mekh. The Prince presented the King with the crown of Pyget. thus making his father the first ruler of the Double Kingdom.
Within the year. the old King died, and his son then reigned as the first King Ahlmos. (There were fourteen of that name.) The father’s name. unfortunately, has not come down to us, for his grandson. Vekos I, hated the old man and had his name excised from the histories and effaced from all monuments.
The sixty-one kings following Vekos I. including their names and genealogies. are well documented. It is only as we approach the end of the Antedeluvian Age that another void appears.
The naval architect Zuizudras built his great vessel during the reign of King Damnir. fifteenth and last of his name. King Damnir XV died only ten months before the onset of the Great Catastrophe. leaving his only son as heir. But since this sovran had no opportunity to build monuments to himself. as was the custom. his name has not been preserved.
Nonetheless, because of this custom of monument building or a millennium and a quarter. we have a nearly complete list of he Kings of Mehk-Pyget, from Ahlmos I to Damnir the Last,
—The Annals of Unrecorded History