In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

8D: Some great wizard's magical messenger, brass-skinned.

8H: The local lord's daughter, tramping after strawberries.

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

5H: A deer-path through towering woods to a still pond.


God-kings of War

8D: An order of magician-monks who punish blasphemers.

8H: A day sacred to an oppressed slave cult, the celebration of which is punishable by torture.

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

5H: A great army's marching orders, passwords, and signals.


the Unquiet Past

8D: A long-dead queen, still trying to defend her realm.

8H: The son of a great tyrant, born crippled and denied his inheritance.

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

5H: The awakening of three powerful and malignant genii.


a Nest of Vipers

8D: A ghoulish eater of dead flesh, driven by unusual lusts.

8H: A decrier of the gods as false, unworthy of our attention, and his learned detractors, in heated dispute.

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

5H: The college of a small but prestigious magical order.