In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. God-kings of War 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. the Unquiet Past 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. a Nest of Vipers 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. |