In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

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

3S: A camp-wanton, pretty and pliant, prone to drink.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

3S: A warrior overcome with the weight of his weapons and the smell of gore.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

3S: A rough wolf-hunter, surly, filthy, and crude.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

3S: A precocious child disputing with philosophers and declaimers.