In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman. 10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. God-kings of War JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions. 10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. the Unquiet Past JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit. 10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. a Nest of Vipers JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release. 10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. |