In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. God-kings of War 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. the Unquiet Past 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. a Nest of Vipers 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. |