In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

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.

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

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