In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 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. KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. |