In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded. 4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery. God-kings of War KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person. 4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides. the Unquiet Past KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims. 4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people. a Nest of Vipers KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter. 4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness. |