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. JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman. 1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. God-kings of War 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions. 1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. the Unquiet Past 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit. 1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. a Nest of Vipers 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release. 1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. |