In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

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

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.


God-kings of War

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.


the Unquiet Past

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.


a Nest of Vipers

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.