In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.