Fire wands [1] are flamethrowers used by the people of the Valley of the Wind to destroy spores from the Sea of Corruption.
The Valley folk used them to cleanse the field that the Torumekian Armored Corvette landed in [2] then searched out and destroyed any spores that were spread.
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a See Page Conversions Between Editions to convert Deluxe Edition volume 1 (DE1) to other editions