In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.


God-kings of War

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.


the Unquiet Past

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.


a Nest of Vipers

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

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.