In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen. 4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. God-kings of War 9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror. 4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. the Unquiet Past 9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells. 4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. a Nest of Vipers 9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible. 4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. |