In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.