The tumult of great powers colliding has passed and the city of Darujhistan and its citizens can at last get on using what matters: trading, bickering, politicking and enjoying all the good stuff in life. However, not all will be ready to leave the past behind. A treasure hunter, digging between the burial grounds that surround the city, is going to uncover a hidden crypt. He will open the final of some sealed vaults – one that no other dared contact – and, by doing this, set free of charge something about Orb Sceptre Throne: Epic Fantasy: Malazan Empire so terrifying that the data of its internment may have been systematically wiped from all background.

Fortune hunters will also be at work much to the south. When a fragment of Moon’s Spawn, once the home of Anomander Rake, Child of Darkness, crashed in to the Rivan Sea it produced a chain of small islands. Legends and rumours already surround them. The strongest of these is definitely that here is hidden the Throne of Evening, claimed by some to end up being the seat of Mom Dark herself. Either way, all who look for this ancient artefact – renegade mages, hardened mercenaries, even a Malazan army deserter – believe it’ll bestow unlimited power upon the eventual possessor. The stakes are high, greed is normally rife, betrayal inevitable, and murder and chaos lie in wait…