In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness. 7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty. 2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites. 9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen. God-kings of War 6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs. 7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking. 2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat. 9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror. the Unquiet Past 6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library. 7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions. 2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying. 9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells. a Nest of Vipers 6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise. 7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted. 2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse. 9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible. |