In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.


God-kings of War

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.


the Unquiet Past

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.


a Nest of Vipers

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.