In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

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

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

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

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

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

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

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

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

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

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

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

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.