In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

10C: The marriage of a region's most beautiful girl, necessarily virgin and without blemish, to the dead stone effigy of a harvest god.

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.


God-kings of War

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

10C: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of a great hero, whose soul remembers glory.

9S: A genius of flame, imprisoned within a brass mirror.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.


the Unquiet Past

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

10C: A trainer of apes, bereft, mourning the death of his dearest performer.

9S: The opening by sorcery of an ancient door, set in the earth over the crypts of some forgotten convent or monestary, until now sealed with potent spells.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.


a Nest of Vipers

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

10C: A devil of the lower air, malicious and full of pranks.

9S: A band of slavers both bold and incorrigible.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.