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.

1D: A mysterious star-lit revel on a high bare hilltop.

7C: The seventh wife of a tyrant king, carrying his chief huntsman's child.

JH: An altar overflowing with flowers and bowls of honey.


God-kings of War

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

1D: The human servant of a mighty and unspeakable demiurge.

7C: A sword held in great esteem by a certain warrior lineage, drawn now for the first time in three lifetimes.

JH: The head of a high war-captain, in a carved wooden cask.


the Unquiet Past

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

1D: The boasting chief of a team of rock-quarriers.

7C: A ruthless bully of an under-officer with high ambitions.

JH: A hermit priestess, practicing obscure deprivations.


a Nest of Vipers

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

1D: A great convocation of mages, with many orders attending.

7C: A noble house's signatory ring, left behind in a street brawl.

JH: The burglary of the storehouse of a powerful robber-merchant.