In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.


the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.


a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.