In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.