In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners. 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. 6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm. 2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self. God-kings of War 2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen. 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. 6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general. 2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass. the Unquiet Past 2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured. 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. 6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards. 2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance. a Nest of Vipers 2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth. 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. 6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. 2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits. |