In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.


God-kings of War

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.


the Unquiet Past

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.


a Nest of Vipers

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.