In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.


God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.


a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.