In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen. 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. God-kings of War 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror. 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. the Unquiet Past 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 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. 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. a Nest of Vipers 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 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. 9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible. 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. |