In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. God-kings of War QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. the Unquiet Past QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. a Nest of Vipers QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. |