In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

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


God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

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