In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.


God-kings of War

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.


the Unquiet Past

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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

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.

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.


a Nest of Vipers

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.