In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

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

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

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

5D: A chattel slave who has broken both his bonds and his master's skull.


God-kings of War

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

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

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

5D: The arrival of unexpected and improbable allies.


the Unquiet Past

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

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

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

5D: A gutted tower, home to many birds.


a Nest of Vipers

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

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

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

5D: The solemnization of treaty between two neighboring principalities, negotiated in the face of brutality and assassination, brave and hopeful but quite doomed.