In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

9C: A young girl, inexperienced but astute and a canny judge of character.

4H: The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom.

4S: A siren-ghoul, who entices the amorous into deadly peril.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.


God-kings of War

9C: A demon-god of blood and vengeance, forgotten since antiquity, recently awakened.

4H: A token indicating that its bearer speaks for the high general.

4S: A summoner of illusions and diversions, mild and of good humor, but gullible.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.


the Unquiet Past

9C: An unsavory treasure-seeker, with an honest map.

4H: An ambitious petty-wizard, quick to take offense.

4S: A market on the crossroads, full of sound and color.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.


a Nest of Vipers

9C: An underground chamber, eerie with blue-green lights.

4H: A fallen-in mansion, where by night ghosts and devils meet.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.