In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.