In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child. 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. God-kings of War 7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes. 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. the Unquiet Past 7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions. 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. a Nest of Vipers 7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl. 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. |