In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. God-kings of War 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. the Unquiet Past 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. a Nest of Vipers 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. 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. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. |