In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

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


God-kings of War

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

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


the Unquiet Past

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

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


a Nest of Vipers

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

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