In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

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

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.


God-kings of War

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

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

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

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.


the Unquiet Past

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

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

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

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.


a Nest of Vipers

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

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.