In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

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


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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