In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. 4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery. 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. 4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides. 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. 4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people. 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. 4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness. 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. |