In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex 9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress. QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard. 3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink. 10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god. God-kings of War 9H: A terrible and devastating ambush. QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore. 3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. the Unquiet Past 9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child. QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad. 3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. a Nest of Vipers 9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival. QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed. 3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. |