In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

6S: An oasis of sweet water in a barren wilderness, haunted by the shadows of some vast atrocity committed centuries ago.

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

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

KH: A young warrior, initiate into a warrior cult, brother to lions.


God-kings of War

6S: A flock of hunterbirds, sharp-beaked, clever, and dreadful.

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

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

KH: The ghost of a tyrant king, strangled by his own daughter.


the Unquiet Past

6S: The convocation of a ruins' ghouls, gaunts, and wisps.

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

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

KH: The arrival of honored emissaries from a wealthy, exotic land.


a Nest of Vipers

6S: An innkeeper who murders and robs his wealthy guests.

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

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

KH: A night-wisp, who devours its victims' magical potency.