The Malus
The Malus are a product of the harsh environment of their home planet. Scarce water, extremely high temperatures, and a volatile climate have combined to create a stout and rigidly disciplined culture based on strength and triumph over adversity. Even under the fickle Clan system, order was strictly maintained.

Under the rule of the theocratic Night Sky regime, the Malus have come to see their place as the rightful inheritors of the cosmos. Each Malus citizen has been re-defined as a warrior. The Code of the Warrior includes a lust for glory in battle that is tempered by a sense of sacrifice and fierce loyalty to one's leaders.


In the year 424, during the era known as the Old Dark, a period of intense fighting ended with the establishment of the Malus Clan system, in which each Clan is responsible for a particular aspect of society. Prior to the establishment of the Clan system, individual families vied for power. The results were unfailingly bloody and peace was short-lived. The Clans absorbed the existing families, and imposed a fragile structure on the chaotic squabbling.

No words have come down to us from this time, though the image reproduced above shows territorial divisions after the establishment of a Clan system on Malus.