In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.


God-kings of War

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.


a Nest of Vipers

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.