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. 6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm. 7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles. 6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god. God-kings of War 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. 6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general. 7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule. 6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings. the Unquiet Past 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. 6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards. 7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies. 6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water. a Nest of Vipers 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. 6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch. 7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats. 6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon. |