It gave the Empire its name, however the tiny island and city of Malaz is currently a sleepy, seedy back-water port. However this evening things are a small different. This night time its citizens are bustling about, barring doors and shuttering home windows. Because this night time a once-in-a-generation Darkness Moon arrives and threatens the good people of Malaz with demon hounds and additional, darker, beings…

And it had been also prophesied that on this night the Emperor Kellanved, missing for each one of these years, will return. As factions within the greater Empire battle within the imperial throne, the Darkness Moon summons an even more alien and ancient presence for an all-out assault upon the island. Indeed the cataclysmic events that happen this evening will determine the fate from the Malaz and of the entire world beyond.