In a Wicked Age
four oracles

anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts

Blood & Sex

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

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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

God-kings of War

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

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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

the Unquiet Past

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

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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

a Nest of Vipers

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

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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