In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners. 1H: A farm manor, peaceful and prosperous. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. God-kings of War 2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen. 1H: A secret order of warrior-mystics, defending their relics. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. the Unquiet Past 2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured. 1H: A girl with the soul of a leopard, born inappropriately into a human body. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. a Nest of Vipers 2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth. 1H: A vicious gang of cutthroats and alley-thieves. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. |