In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

QD: A happy girl, promised in marriage to a gentleman, naive to the danger he represents.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

QD: An executioner, a strangler, in service to a ruthless king.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

QD: The fey and unfriendly guardians of an enchanted glade.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

QD: A poor home shared by many families of beggars.

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

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