In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

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


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

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


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

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