KARA'ZIN Empire of perfidy. With Menuvia little more than a funeral pyre, Xerdes flees to the Traitor's Kingdom of Nazgan. Where larceny is legal, honor is fatal, and it pays to keep a low profile. For the deserts of Nazgan are not empty. A lethal legend now haunts the badlands, thirsty for sinful blood. A hooded horror none dare name. Even as the masked wraith carves its way through the underworld of two separate countries, it has only ever uttered a single word: "...Xerdes."