In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.

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


God-kings of War

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

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.

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