In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers. 3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals. 3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods. 3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief. 3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. |