In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. God-kings of War 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. the Unquiet Past 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. a Nest of Vipers 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. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. |