In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.


God-kings of War

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.


the Unquiet Past

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.


a Nest of Vipers

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.