In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

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

8C: A band of goat herders, armed, outraged by an injustice visited upon their clan.

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


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

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

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

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


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

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

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

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

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.

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