Not since the wretched dark sun last rose over Lusab-Babad, or the accursed sorcerer-priests of Haguz-Biram last spilled human blood on their altars, had such indescribable evil lurked in the shadows as now did amongst the filth-ridden canals and dank buttresses of Budov-Kuras, Budov-Kuras which squatted upon the forbidden ruins of Mudof-Sakat, even its name blotted from memory by the horror of its crimes.