When a wizard is unable to cure his malady of magicks, he sends his apprentice Wuntnor to seek aid in the distant land of the Eastern Kingdoms which are ripe with fiendish peril.

Verse the second in The Ballad of Wuntvor...in which an uninformed apprentice learns what comes after "Once upon a time..."

Wuntvor has caught the cold eye of Death himself, who seeks to add the hapless apprentice to his morbid minions...