In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. God-kings of War 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. the Unquiet Past 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. a Nest of Vipers 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. |