In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.


God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.


the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.


a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.