In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.


God-kings of War

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.


the Unquiet Past

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.


a Nest of Vipers

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.