In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

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


God-kings of War

8C: A high, many-towered wall on a fierce border.

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

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


the Unquiet Past

8C: The father of a child possessed by a voracious spirit.

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

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


a Nest of Vipers

8C: A tempter devil, fond of luxury and sin, respecter of no law and every appetite, imprisoned until this very hour and minute within a stone crypt behind an old monk's garden.

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

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