In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan. QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard. 10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed. God-kings of War JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border. QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore. 10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord. the Unquiet Past JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit. QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad. 10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched. a Nest of Vipers JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden. QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed. 10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed. |