In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman. 2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners. God-kings of War 10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions. 2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen. the Unquiet Past 10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit. 2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured. a Nest of Vipers 10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release. 2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth. |