In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.


God-kings of War

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.


a Nest of Vipers

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.