In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

3C: The arrival at a way house of four unusual travelers.


God-kings of War

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

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

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

3C: A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

3C: The secret central shrine of a temple to forgotten gods.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

3C: A slight and subtle demon, child of blasphemy, craving mischief.