In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. 6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness. God-kings of War QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. 6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs. the Unquiet Past QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. 6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library. a Nest of Vipers QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. 6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise. |