In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

9S: The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.

JC: The death of the primary heir of a local noblewoman.


God-kings of War

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

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

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

JC: A powerful general's death of her wounds, which will shatter her army into factions.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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.

JC: A small room under the foundation, its doorway bricked shut, the prison of a dreadful and malicious spirit.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

JC: The ghost of a suicide, a person overcome by guilt and shame, who finds in death no release.