In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.


God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.


the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.


a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.