In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. God-kings of War 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. the Unquiet Past 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. a Nest of Vipers 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. |