In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. God-kings of War 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. the Unquiet Past 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. a Nest of Vipers 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. |