It was in a time of dread that a stranger came to our lands. More dead than alive was he when he was found in the desert, and the merchants who found him took pity on him and brought him hither. But how great was the amazement and the wonder when it turned out that he wore a birth-mark on his neck that looked exactly like a scarab! The crowd was struck with awe, and it was soon decided that he was to be taken to the priests, so that they might ask the gods for an omen. And so it came that while the man was still lying in a slumber full of delirious dreams the priests burnt incense and performed an ancient ritual to ask the gods for advice and for guidance. The high priest climbed the tallest pyramid and called for the knowledge of the wind and the wisdom of the sand. For three long days the stranger was caught in the perilous purgatory that separates life from death, and for three long nights the priest was haunted by visions. As the sun rose following the third night, the stranger opened his eyes and looked around in confused amazement. It was that moment that the delirious priest began to espouse his prophecy.

The nature of the prophecy was kept a secret by the priests. They called for the stranger, who seemed to have lost his memory, to be brought to the temple, where they talked to him and asked him all kinds of questions. To their dismay, he could not give them even the seemingly basic answers they sought, for his memory was as blank as the surface of the desert after a sandstorm. The priests, however, had the wisdom of the secret prophecy to guide them, and so they challenged the stranger with five tasks to fulfil before they could reveal his destiny to him. The stranger, seeking greatness and knowledge of his future, swore he would fulfil all the tasks or die trying. 

His first task was to locate the eldest of the scarabs deep under the desert sands and to return with an egg laid by this powerful scarab as proof of his success. The stranger is said to have descended into the deepest known burrow of the scarabs. 

Sadly... the stranger never returned.