In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded. QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult. 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person. QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted. 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims. QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner. 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter. QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character. 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. |