In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

1C: A spirit of the lower air, caught up in joyous human celebration.

9D: The secluded home of an exiled court-wizard.

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

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


God-kings of War

1C: A local warlord's ancestral sword, much honored.

9D: A much-decorated company of the enemy's light cavalry.

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

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


the Unquiet Past

1C: A waystation on a broad road, with a campsite and shrine.

9D: A camp physician, her pockets full of salves and drugs.

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

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


a Nest of Vipers

1C: A jaded gladiator, murderer of both enemies and friends.

9D: The corpse of a lord's hunting hound, caught in a rose-briar.

4S: One mistakenly condemned, fled into hiding.

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