In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery. 6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. God-kings of War 4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides. 6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. the Unquiet Past 4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people. 6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. a Nest of Vipers 4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness. 6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. |