In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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


God-kings of War

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

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

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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