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. 2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners. 2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self. 6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago. God-kings of War 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen. 2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass. 6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful. the Unquiet Past 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured. 2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance. 6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps. 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. 2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth. 2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits. 6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests. |