In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. 5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull. 9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character. 6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm. God-kings of War 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. 5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies. 9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened. 6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general. the Unquiet Past 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. 5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds. 9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map. 6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards. a Nest of Vipers 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. 5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed. 9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights. 6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. |