In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.


God-kings of War

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.


the Unquiet Past

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.


a Nest of Vipers

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.