More than a century ago, the cataclysmic struggle between the wizards and the mages ended in their mutual destruction - leveling great cities and reducing grand palaces to dust. From the vast graveyard that remained, the Empress Ouriana rose up to proclaim herself the Divine Incarnation of the Devouring Moon - ruling her wasted realm with the blackest sorcery; turning her priests from men to monsters and setting them loose to enslave or destroy all who would oppose her.