In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. 9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. God-kings of War QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. 9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. the Unquiet Past QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. 9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. a Nest of Vipers QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. 9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. |