In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3H: The sorcerously animate homunculus of a wizard, more clever than wise, recently dead.

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

1S: A field of herbs and wild flowers, alive with bees, where a certain half-bestial creature brings his many lovers.

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


God-kings of War

3H: An unspeakable demon of atrocity and rage, bound in chains for a thousand years, aware suddenly of a minute loosening of his bonds.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

1S: The very first time that a certain young soldier, impressed against his choice and wanting nothing more than to return to his home, has killed.

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


the Unquiet Past

3H: The guardian of a tomb, a statue cast in silver with ruby eyes.

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

1S: A slow-moving caravan with many wagons and travelers.

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


a Nest of Vipers

3H: An imbiber of sorcerous drugs, seeking congress with demons.

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

1S: The daughter of an emperor, denied nothing, prey to fleeting whims, craving discipline.

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