Blackshard Pass
When Prince Calum of Thrant bought the staff in the black markets of Ang-Zuul, the shopkeep swore up and down that it would shield him and his men from the flames of the three-headed hydra at Blackshard Pass. It worked like a dream! What the shopkeep had failed to mention, as he accepted Prince Calum’s gold, was that the staff was good for one use only.