In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

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


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

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


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

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