In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.


God-kings of War

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.


the Unquiet Past

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.


a Nest of Vipers

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.