In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. 8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. God-kings of War 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. 8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. the Unquiet Past 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. 8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. a Nest of Vipers 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. 8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. |