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.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.


God-kings of War

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

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.


the Unquiet Past

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

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.


a Nest of Vipers

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

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.