In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

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

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

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


God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

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.

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


the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

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

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

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