In a Wicked Age
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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. |