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.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

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


God-kings of War

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

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