In a Wicked Age
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Blood & Sex QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor. 8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries. JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites. 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 QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization. 8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture. JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe. 10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory. the Unquiet Past QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news. 8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance. JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces. 10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer. a Nest of Vipers QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home. 8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute. JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed. 10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks. |