In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. God-kings of War 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. the Unquiet Past 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. a Nest of Vipers 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. |