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. 5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond. 6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. God-kings of War 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. 5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals. 6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. the Unquiet Past 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. 5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii. 6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. 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. 5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order. 6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. |