In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

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

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.


God-kings of War

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

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

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.


the Unquiet Past

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

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

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.


a Nest of Vipers

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

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

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.