In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.