In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

2D: A woman suddenly bereft of love and family, daughter to a long heritage of sorceresses and poisoners.

9H: A wandering exorcist, severe, who accepts no payment for his services but who lusts after carnal congress.

8S: A simple insult, casually inflicted, striking very, very deep.

10D: A note written in an elegant hand, sweetly perfumed.


God-kings of War

2D: A cask of honey wine, tribute to a fierce bandit-queen.

9H: A terrible and devastating ambush.

8S: A prodigy-mage, still a maid, drunk with occult power.

10D: The country fort, made mostly of mud bricks, of a local warlord.


the Unquiet Past

2D: The passage of a ghostly army, dragging their slain and injured.

9H: The wetnurse of an austere scholar's adopted child.

8S: A fearsome storm, with thunder and driving winds.

10D: The young, beautiful wife of an old man whom the gods have touched.


a Nest of Vipers

2D: A midwife, weary and appalled, having delivered a tenth consecutive stillbirth.

9H: A young widower, raging, whose beautiful wife was murdered by sorcery by a romantic rival.

8S: A warehouse on the docks, full of stolen silk.

10D: The written deed to a certain house, affirmed and sealed.