In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. 2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god. God-kings of War 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. 2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts. the Unquiet Past 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. 2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger. a Nest of Vipers 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. 2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver. |