In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.

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

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.


God-kings of War

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.

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

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.


the Unquiet Past

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.

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

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.


a Nest of Vipers

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.

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

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.