Camilla was the queen of a lost empire in the heart of Africa. Her people were descended of Norsemen who found their way to the jungle during the Crusades. Her people worship Thor and sacrifice humans through electrocution to appease him during the Thunder Festival and every day during the rainy season. They also have unlocked the secrets of eternal life by drinking from a sulphur spring mixed with a secret powder. Each drink prolongs their life for five years. This formula allowed her people to live for over 600 years. In the 1940s, Camilla was visited by scientist Dr. Jon Dale, who was accidentally dragged to the outskirts of her empire by an elephant. Dale is welcomed into her kingdom and introduced to two more of her guests, Dr. Birch and his daughter, Ruth. She explained to her guests about her people’s customs and they are horrified by the human sacrifices. Later, Camilla tried to convince Dr. Dale to become her king and stay with her, but Jon refused. She then decided to sacrifice Ruth to eliminate her romantic rival for Jon’s affections. However, Jon sabotaged the altar by grounding the electrodes. The next day when Ruth was to be sacrificed, it failed, causing Camilla’s people to turn against her. She sicked her tiger Omar on Dr. Dale, but Jon shot it. Camilla then succumbed to her old age, since she did not drink any of the formula, but before she died Camilla, regretting what she’d done, gave Jon a ring containing the secrets to eternal life. Her empire fell into disarray upon her death and was destroyed. Ruth, her father, and Dr. Dale escaped, with Dale pledging to destroy the ring as he felt it was unnatural to prolong one’s life in such a manner. However, Camilla was later seen sitting in the ruins of her lost empire, inexplicably alive in spite of seemingly dying on panel. On the advice of her court seer (who seemed to be her only surviving subject), she sacrificed herself to Bal to have her empire restored. She willingly set herself on fire and, after the ashes settled, her empire was restored and all of her subjects were brought back to life and, although Camilla was supposed to have died, she was resurrected as well. Camilla may have gotten her empire and her people back, but she still blamed Ruth for everything that went wrong in the previous story. So, when Jon Dale and Ruth came back to explore what they thought were ruins, Camilla was all too happy to capture them. She used the sulfur spring to age Ruth by a few decades and threw Jon into a python pit. Jon was able to defeat the python, however, and restore Ruth’s youth by getting her to drink from the sulfur spring. He then blew up the spring, assuming that without it, Camilla would quickly die of old age.
Description Camilla was the queen of a lost empire in the heart of Africa. Her people were descended of Norsemen who found their way to the jungle during the Crusades. Her people worship Thor and sacrifice humans through electrocution to appease him during the Thunder Festival and every day during the rainy season. They also have unlocked the secrets of eternal life by drinking from a sulphur spring mixed with a secret powder. Each drink prolongs their life for five years. This formula allowed her people to live for over 600 years. In the 1940s, Camilla was visited by scientist Dr. Jon Dale, who was accidentally dragged to the outskirts of her empire by an elephant. Dale is welcomed into her kingdom and introduced to two more of her guests, Dr. Birch and his daughter, Ruth. She explained to her guests about her people’s customs and they are horrified by the human sacrifices. Later, Camilla tried to convince Dr. Dale to become her king and stay with her, but Jon refused. She then decided to sacrifice Ruth to eliminate her romantic rival for Jon’s affections. However, Jon sabotaged the altar by grounding the electrodes. The next day when Ruth was to be sacrificed, it failed, causing Camilla’s people to turn against her. She sicked her tiger Omar on Dr. Dale, but Jon shot it. Camilla then succumbed to her old age, since she did not drink any of the formula, but before she died Camilla, regretting what she’d done, gave Jon a ring containing the secrets to eternal life. Her empire fell into disarray upon her death and was destroyed. Ruth, her father, and Dr. Dale escaped, with Dale pledging to destroy the ring as he felt it was unnatural to prolong one’s life in such a manner. However, Camilla was later seen sitting in the ruins of her lost empire, inexplicably alive in spite of seemingly dying on panel. On the advice of her court seer (who seemed to be her only surviving subject), she sacrificed herself to Bal to have her empire restored. She willingly set herself on fire and, after the ashes settled, her empire was restored and all of her subjects were brought back to life and, although Camilla was supposed to have died, she was resurrected as well. Camilla may have gotten her empire and her people back, but she still blamed Ruth for everything that went wrong in the previous story. So, when Jon Dale and Ruth came back to explore what they thought were ruins, Camilla was all too happy to capture them. She used the sulfur spring to age Ruth by a few decades and threw Jon into a python pit. Jon was able to defeat the python, however, and restore Ruth’s youth by getting her to drink from the sulfur spring. He then blew up the spring, assuming that without it, Camilla would quickly die of old age.
