In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

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

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.