In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.


God-kings of War

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

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.


the Unquiet Past

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

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.


a Nest of Vipers

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

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.