In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites. QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult. God-kings of War JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair. QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted. the Unquiet Past JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute. QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner. a Nest of Vipers JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult. QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character. |