In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2H: The ascension to mastery of a student wizardess, unrecognized by her order but absolutely clear and undeniable to her inner self.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.

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


God-kings of War

2H: An old, proud fortress on an important mountain pass.

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.

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


the Unquiet Past

2H: A serpent-demoness, malicious and venomous, seeking vengeance.

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.

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


a Nest of Vipers

2H: A conjurer who needs blood to entice his uncouth spirits.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.

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