In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

6C: A small group of mothers, led by a midwife, fighting to protect their children from demons of illness.

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


God-kings of War

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

6C: A brutish and tyrannical warlord and his uncouth thugs.

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


the Unquiet Past

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

6C: The burglary of a magical order's innermost library.

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


a Nest of Vipers

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

6C: A baby's birth, heralded by prophets, written of in antique books, forseen by the wise.

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