In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.


God-kings of War

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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


the Unquiet Past

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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


a Nest of Vipers

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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