In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.