In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. 6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago. God-kings of War QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. 6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful. the Unquiet Past QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. 6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps. a Nest of Vipers QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. 6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests. |