In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

KD: A company of desert horsemen, hiding a woman amongst them.

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


God-kings of War

4D: The arrival of a hundred fearsome warships on an unprepared, prosperous, peaceful coast.

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

KD: A chest containing the tax monies of a rural province.

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


the Unquiet Past

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

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

KD: The exposure by erosion of a long-buried door.

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


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

KD: A wealthy merchant-priest with much political clout.

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