In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order. 6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. God-kings of War 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian. 6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. the Unquiet Past 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets. 6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. a Nest of Vipers 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding. 6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. |