In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.


God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.


the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.