In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions. 5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite. 4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries. God-kings of War 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter. 5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women. 4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast. the Unquiet Past 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land. 5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces. 4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth. a Nest of Vipers 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency. 5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death. 4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant. |