In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

5S: A famous traveling exorcist and his entourage, with as canny an eye for a village's wealth as for its demons.

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


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

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

5S: A great warship, set with ram and mangonel.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

5S: A cruel and powerful young lordling.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

5S: The private garden of a noble house.

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