In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.


God-kings of War

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

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.


the Unquiet Past

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

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.