In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler. God-kings of War KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing. the Unquiet Past KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty. a Nest of Vipers KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar. |