In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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