In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.

JS: A priestess of a merciful temple of healers, on pilgrimage to the birthplace of her order.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.


God-kings of War

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

JS: A fortress guarding the only pass through treacherous mountains, overseen by a corrupt and voracious war-captian.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.


the Unquiet Past

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.

JS: A knowledge-mad sorceress, delving into ancient secrets.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.


a Nest of Vipers

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.

JS: The flight of a prince and his forbidden lover into hiding.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.