In a Wicked Age
four oracles


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anyway.
A Penny for Your Thoughts



Blood & Sex

QC: The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.

4C: The graduation of an apprentice to mastery.

6D: A practitioner of luck-magics traveling ahead of a ferocious storm.

10H: The child of a great and renowned theologist, forced into priesthood against both inclination and nature.


God-kings of War

QC: An altar to devils of the waste, stinking with gore.

4C: A hard-won victory, with many dead on both sides.

6D: The self-important master of strategy to a great general.

10H: A tender of war-bulls, shaved-headed and fearless.


the Unquiet Past

QC: A wandering intelligence, intent on driving mortals mad.

4C: A new village built on the ruins of a forgotten people.

6D: A youth or maiden, the reincarnation of an ancient sage, remembering uncanny arts but forgetful of safeguards.

10H: The meeting by chance of old enemies, one less forgetful than the other.


a Nest of Vipers

QC: The warden ghost of the place, generous to the good-willed.

4C: The unwitting husband of a serpent-demoness.

6D: The murder by strangling of an officer of the city watch.

10H: A wizard jealously guarding her magical territory.