In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. God-kings of War 2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. the Unquiet Past 2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. a Nest of Vipers 2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. |