<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The small island of Malaz and its city gave the great empire its name but now it is little more than a sleepy backwater port. Tonight however things are different. Tonight the city is on edge a hive of hurried sometimes violent activity; its citizens bustle about barring doors shuttering windows avoiding any stranger's stare. Because tonight there is to be a convergence the once-in-a-generation appearance of a Shadow Moon - an occasion that threatens the good people of Malaz with demon hounds and other darker things....</span></p>