In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.