In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.


God-kings of War

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.


the Unquiet Past

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.


a Nest of Vipers

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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.