In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6H: The alliance by marriage of a certain tyrant's family with the cult of a certain desert god.

5C: A raving prophet, preaching the transience of life and advocating a full indulgence of every appetite.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

10S: A wandering spirit, visible at will, an inflamer of human passions.


God-kings of War

6H: A speaker for the ancestors, carrying secrets and warnings.

5C: A soldier's plain shortsword, gradually developing a taste for the blood of women.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

10S: The mutiny and revolt of a prestigious cavalry company.


the Unquiet Past

6H: The bloodthirsty ghosts of those drowned in an accursed water.

5C: A place where warring demons have left the earth churned, upthrust, and charged with occult forces.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

10S: An ancient stone way marker, indicating an overgrown road.


a Nest of Vipers

6H: A tower of silver and alabaster, which rises from the sea under the new moon.

5C: The young mother of a baby prince, whose husband the king has been overthrown and put to death.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

10S: A court dandy, casually cruel, exiled from the presence of the prince for a petty slight.