In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. God-kings of War 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. the Unquiet Past 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. a Nest of Vipers 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. |