In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

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

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


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

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

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