In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.