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. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. God-kings of War QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. the Unquiet Past QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. a Nest of Vipers QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. |