In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

KC: A bandit captain, in hiding, with her trusted bodyguard.

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

4D: A practitioner of law, with her several secretaries.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.


God-kings of War

KC: An outlying watchtower on a wooded hill.

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.


the Unquiet Past

KC: A treasure seeker, following the whispers of a slave spirit.

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

4D: The soul of a dead wizard, seeking an advantageous rebirth.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.


a Nest of Vipers

KC: A troupe of musicians for hire, one of whom is a burglar and cutpurse.

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

4D: The proprietress of a wanton-house, with her manservant.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.