In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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

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


God-kings of War

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

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

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