In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

7H: A spirit of the wilds, mercurial in form, sister to gazelles.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

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

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

7H: A demon of rage and avarice, secret power behind a great tyrant's rule.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

7H: A fallen temple, overgrown with moss and ivies.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

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

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

7H: A squat town on the banks of a wide, long river, rich from plunder, whose men raid up and down the river in their ugly boats.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

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

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.