In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman. God-kings of War 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions. the Unquiet Past 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit. a Nest of Vipers 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 5S: The private garden of a noble house. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release. |