In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness. 2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god. 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. God-kings of War 6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs. 2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts. 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. the Unquiet Past 6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library. 2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger. 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. a Nest of Vipers 6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise. 2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver. 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. |