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.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

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

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

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

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

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

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.