In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child. 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm. God-kings of War 7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes. 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general. the Unquiet Past 7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions. 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards. a Nest of Vipers 7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl. 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. |