In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. God-kings of War 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. the Unquiet Past 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. a Nest of Vipers 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. |