In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

JD: A band of demons, laughing and malicious, authors of debauched sensuality and corrupt appetites.


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.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

JD: A vengeful and jealous god, displeased by the lapses of his followers, however scrupulously they observe.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

JD: A murderer-for-hire, luckless and in poverty, from whom the gods have turned their faces.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

JD: A wayhouse in which plague-victims have recently stayed.