In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. 4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril. 4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom. God-kings of War QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. 4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible. 4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general. the Unquiet Past QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color. 4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense. a Nest of Vipers QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding. 4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet. |