In a Wicked Age
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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

KS: A jealous and vengeful rival, who is an infamous dueler.


God-kings of War

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

KS: An enemy champion, fearless and bellowing.


the Unquiet Past

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

KS: A wealthy merchant's son, refined and crafty.


a Nest of Vipers

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.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

KS: A village executioner, practicing his trade on a caught burglar.