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.

3D: A raving prophet, advocating self-mortification and deprivation of the appetites.

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

2C: A monastery and its associated shrines, each to its own god.


God-kings of War

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

3D: A war-sorceress, slender but commanding, with golden hair.

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

2C: An army's scryer, commanding six sharp-fanged gaunts.


the Unquiet Past

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

3D: The captain of a foreign troop, sent to collect tribute.

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

2C: A scholar and antiquarian, unmindful of danger.


a Nest of Vipers

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

3D: The celebration of a day sacred to the city's chief cult.

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

2C: An ambitious farmer, hungry for gossip or silver.