In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. God-kings of War 5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. the Unquiet Past 5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. a Nest of Vipers 5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. |