In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. God-kings of War 3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. the Unquiet Past 3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. a Nest of Vipers 3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. |