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.

7D: The much-contested wedding of the province's great beauty.

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

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.


God-kings of War

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

7D: The site of a pitched battle, ground churned and stinking.

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

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.


the Unquiet Past

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

7D: An apothecary, squint-eyed, with many uncanny potions.

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

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.


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.

7D: A public bathing house in a wealthy city, of very good quality, where only the most refined and modish vices are permitted.

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

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.