In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. 9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen. 8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned. God-kings of War 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. 9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror. 8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers. the Unquiet Past 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. 9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells. 8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm. a Nest of Vipers 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. 9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible. 8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts. |