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. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. God-kings of War 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. the Unquiet Past 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 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. 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. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. |