In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. God-kings of War 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. the Unquiet Past 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. a Nest of Vipers 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. |