In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

QH: The rehearsal of the funeral of the city's aged and beloved mayor.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

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

QH: A warrior-woman, queen of her small wild tribe, hard-pressed by advancing civilization.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

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

QH: A reader of omens and caster of auguries, with grim news.

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

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

QH: The return of a reclusive enchantress to her home.

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

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.