In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. 2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. God-kings of War 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. the Unquiet Past 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. a Nest of Vipers 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. |