The city-state of Akkad is in the midst if a drought of unimaginable length and intensity. Not a single drop of rain has fallen for three years. Wells bear no water, the rivers have been reduced to cracked gullies, the lands are drying up, and animals literally turn to dust. The only hope for salvation lies in traveling to the cursed ruins of Ur, braving the Tomb of Nicrotis located below them, and returning with the Golden Auroch.