Nicky and Andrew wrote "Ethan Rex and the Ghostly Abbot" before they'd decided that the present batch of prequel stories would mostly focus on Madeline de Verninac's quest for information on the Corvus Drive. So this story isn't connected to that particular plotline; instead, it was originally conceived as the first installment of a series called Tales from the Endless Plateau.

Nicky and Andrew do plan to write more installments of Tales from the Endless Plateau eventually. In the meantime, enjoy "Ethan Rex and the Ghostly Abbot," in which we find young Reality Patrol agent Ethan Rex seeking temporary refuge during an ill-advised solo trek across the Endless Plateau.

In case you've forgotten Agent Sojac's mention of it back in Chapter 1.4, the Endless Plateau is the chaos-warped "nightmare wasteland" that surrounds the city-state of Tal Sharnis. We'll learn a lot more about it in future volumes of Weird Luck!