In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. 3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites. God-kings of War 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. 3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair. the Unquiet Past 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute. a Nest of Vipers 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. 3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult. |