In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QS: A warrior-priestess of a truly bloodthirsty cult.

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

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.


God-kings of War

QS: The campsite of a traveling army, not long deserted.

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.


the Unquiet Past

QS: A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.

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

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.


a Nest of Vipers

QS: A conjurer possessed by spirits of uncivil character.

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

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.