In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

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

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


God-kings of War

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

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

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