In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

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

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

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.