In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.


the Unquiet Past

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.


a Nest of Vipers

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.