In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.


the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.


a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.