In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.


God-kings of War

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

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

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.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

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