In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. 9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. |