In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. 3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead. QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents. God-kings of War 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. 3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds. QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king. the Unquiet Past 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. 3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes. QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade. a Nest of Vipers 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. 3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons. QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars. |