In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.


God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.


the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.


a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.