The story of 'The Sultan's Elephant is loosely based on a tale by Jules Verne. The gist of the story is that there once lived a Sultan who was tormented in his dreams by visions of a girl who he believed was traveling through time. He couldn't sleep so he built a time-traveling elephant and set off in search of the girl, who, in the course of his nightmares, had been transformed into a marionette 5 meters high.