In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard. 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. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. God-kings of War KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill. 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. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. the Unquiet Past KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. a Nest of Vipers KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. |