In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.


God-kings of War

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.


the Unquiet Past

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.


a Nest of Vipers

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

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.