In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead. JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. God-kings of War 3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds. JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. the Unquiet Past 3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes. JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. a Nest of Vipers 3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons. JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. |