In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

7S: A slayer of monsters, heralded and lauded.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

2S: The celebration of local fertility or harvest rites.


God-kings of War

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

7S: The guardian spirit of a foolhardy, naive, reckless and impressionable young person.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

2S: A captured war-horse with a taste for human meat.


the Unquiet Past

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

7S: Instruments of torture, haunted by their long-dead victims.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

2S: A necromancer who steals the knowledge of the dying.


a Nest of Vipers

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

7S: A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

2S: The unscrupulous landlady of a roadside wayhouse.