In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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


God-kings of War

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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


the Unquiet Past

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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


a Nest of Vipers

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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