In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites. God-kings of War 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair. the Unquiet Past 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute. a Nest of Vipers 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult. |