In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration. 8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. God-kings of War 1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored. 8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. the Unquiet Past 1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine. 8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. a Nest of Vipers 1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends. 8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. |